Canon it seems it is interested in creating her own DJI Osmo Pocket, although with the great difference and advantage of offering an interchangeable lens system with which to take advantage of many of your existing lenses.
Canon patents its own DJI Osmo Pocket
The DJI Osmo Pocket is one of the most interesting cameras on the market and, in turn, one of the least valued by many users. And in part it is not fair, because the possibilities it offers are many for a device with such small dimensions.
It seems like a great proposal to us, because it combines all of DJI's good work in terms of stabilization in a very compact body that allows you to always carry it with you and even use it in very particular situations where other types of cameras could not be operated.
Well, it seems that Canon agrees with us and logically sees the potential that a proposal of this type could have. Which could be identical to if DJI made a Pro version of the Osmo Pocket, but with the ZenMuse cameras.
And it is that from what can be seen in a canon patent, the company would be thinking of developing a interchangeable lens camera that would offer an integrated gimbal and with a much more comfortable form factor to hold and clearly designed for the video theme.
Thus, although with patents you always have to be very careful because of all that this implies for a final product, this "Canon Osmo Pocket Pro" would have a handle that would serve to grip it in the same way as any other gimbal on the market. At the back it would have a screen that would allow viewing what the sensor that is mounted on a two-axis stabilizer captures.
A sensor that would go inside a casing that curiously would have a shoe option through which accessories such as flashes, led spotlights or similar could be mounted. Of course, we assume that with a maximum weight so that together with that of the objective itself, the motors of the stabilization system are capable of compensating for the movements that occur.
For the rest, this proposal would also have different buttons that would be used to control actions such as the start and pause of the recording, etc. In the end, transferring the classic Canon camera format to a handheld gimbal type with an interchangeable lens system.
Will Canon's Osmo Pocket come true?
As we said, a patent is not indicative that the product will see the light Or do it immediately. It is true that it may just be a way to get an idea for a possible idea to develop in the future or so that your competitors do not do the same, but it would be interesting to see something like that.
It is true that grace or The beauty of the DJI Osmo Pocket is that its size it is very reduced. Here you are going to have to carry something larger and that makes it lose a certain grace. It is true that interchangeable lenses is synonymous with greater creative possibilities, but knowing that there are very capable stabilizers for cameras, small and valid for different models, why would anyone want such a “closed” thing?
We assume that facing a proposal focused on the vlogger field, as Panasonic or Sony have done this year with the Lumix G100 o Sony ZV1 It could be interesting, but in addition to this it would have to come with a good price to be competitive.
We'll see what happens in the future, for now just stick with the idea that if you dreamed of an Osmo Pocket with interchangeable lenses, Canon might have the solution in the future.