Keyboard Cleaning: Handheld Vacuum vs. Compressed Air Duster (JML Go Vac & Whatook reviews)
These Blowers Changed How I Clean My Keyboard!
Are your keyboards absolutely filthy? I'm unboxing and reviewing two popular gadgets that might clean them: the JML Go Vac 3-in-1 handheld vacuum and the Whatook Compressed Air Duster. Putting them to the test on my disgusting PC and MacBook Pro keyboards, comparing which is more effective. The Go Vac sucks up the dirt for a tidy cleanup, while the Whatook blows it away with serious power. I show how much grime is hidden beneath the keys and find out which of these tools is the best solution for a clean work battlestation!
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I don't know about you, but my keyboards are absolutely filthy disgusting. This is my PC keyboard. Look at it. Absolutely disgusting. And my MacBook Pro that I've had for 3 years. I... I know. I can tell just from the key action that there must be all kinds of grime and dust and dirt underneath those uh lovely Silicon Valley designed Apple keys there. So, what's the best way to clean them? I did try one of those um aerosol cans with the straw on the end and the problem with that is that it does actually drip out some liquid which is the whole point of the thing that you want to avoid. It just seems pointless. So I bought... impulsively I bought this JML Govac 3-in-1 vac blower and inflator uh in the supermarket. This was straight off the supermarket shelf. And on Amazon, I bought this Whatook? Whatook... Whatook compressed air duster. And I think they're slightly different. They're priced pretty much exactly the same at the moment, but the Go Vac is is what it says it is. So, it's a vacuum, a small uh cordless handheld vacuum. So, it can suck and blow. So, it's a vac blower and inflator. And the... the other one, the Whatook compressed air duster, just blows. It just blows. And I've got my teenage son giggling away behind the camera there at me saying that it blows and sucks as it goes. But which... which one's the best? What am I going to use? Let's dive into my filthy keyboards and we will unbox these blowers and suckers and see which one works. I'm going to unbox the compressed air duster, the blower first. because my son wants it and he wants it right now. So, uh, if you come... come over, you can get a bit of closeup. I don't know if you can see that on... on my camera, too. It comes wrapped up in a bag and it comes with all these attachments. Although, weirdly, so my son got one of these before and it didn't have any attachments in, did it? Uh, it looked like it should have. It came with one. This one comes with the... the main unit itself, obviously, and it Oh, that's protectively taped up. So, this is your main blower. Wow, this looks great. Oh, you hold it for 3 seconds to start. Here we go. See if there's any charge in it. [Music]
So, it looks like there are three power settings. You just click the trigger button. Got a nice bag to keep all the bits in. That's going to be so crucial with this actually. And then we have different nozzles that clip on. So, that just squeezes on. And does that go on? No. So obviously I'm doing this for the first time itself. Oh, right. So they clip inside the the orange thing here. So if you put... there's like a brush attachment. And then we have this... is for blowing sideways. What's that for? There's a long reach nozzle. I want to use this one on my MacBook, I think. So I'm just going to use this. This nozzle. Is that the Yeah, this is like the most narrow nozzle. Here we go. Go close. Be able to see it. Oh, I don't think you see that. Can you see how much it also has an LED light that shines?
That's good. But the real test is for the keys, the keyboard. Should we have a go? I think I'll use the brush attachment for this. This is the one we bought before, which is smaller. I thought this was the same. What's great about this one, though, is you think it's more powerful. is way more powerful. Should I turn it on? Hold it down and it's got a light there and there's like a trigger there and then it's got three modes. Yeah, like that. Yeah. Or if you just hold it down. Yeah. Okay. Wow. It's blowing the stuff off the... But the downside with it was it doesn't have any attachments. No attachments. Well, it had one. It was just that and it fell off. And look, the plastic is cracking as well. So these and you haven't done an Oops. Sorry. Didn't mean to do that. You owe me a new one. You broke it. Here you go. So I'm going to now brush the keys. Are you able to go? Just hold it down. Right. Go close on the keys. Here we Oh, it blew the thing off. There you go.
Oh, wow. I don't know if you can hear me over the noise, but um we're in bright sunlight, so you probably can't see the amount of dust that's coming out. Oh, can you see the debris coming out? Oh, yeah. This has never been cleaned like this. Oh, your escape key works better now, does it? Yeah. Look, it doesn't it doesn't stick down anymore. Oh my god, that's fine. That one actually works now. That used to just get stuck. Oh, it does a little bit. Oh, so okay. So, we've already improved the keyboard. So, this is great, but uh you can't see what power setting you have. Uh you just have to sort of guess from the sound, and there's a dog hair under my space key here that I just can't get to, but it seems really powerful. So, all in all, I'm impressed with I've blown the box away. All in all, I'm impressed with this blaster. You can actually charge it from USB-C, which is really helpful. I I wish there'd be a display and the nozzle seems to fall off really easily, but just for a handheld blower, it's going to be really helpful around the house. We're going to use this a lot, I think. Let's move to the next uh the next product. This is a JML product, which is quite famous here in the UK. In the box, we get this looks so similar. So, we have an on/off switch here, and it's a definite push button on off USB-C charging. We also get a filter and a dust bin that sits inside the dust collector. And it looks like this filter is washable as well, which is really handy. I guess that just clips onto here. And finally, the nozzle attachments. I hope a crevice nozzle. There's a brush attachment that goes on. I don't know what these are. Oh, right. So, these are for the other end. So, this is a wide inflator nozzle. So, you can use it as a blower. Oh, yeah. Right. Okay. So, while it sucks at this end, it actually blows out that end. And you can actually put that on and use it to inflate an inflatable bed or something that needs blowing up. This is a narrow blower inflator nozzle. So, let's dive in. And it's a little bit unfair of me to be testing both of these straight out of the box because they're not fully charged. I should probably fully charge them. But I just uh just too excited. I just wanted to get in here and clean this absolutely disgusting keyboard. There is all sorts of debris underneath. And what's great with both of these is that it'll be... it'll be really helpful for pushing out anything loose like grains of rice or any big bits of dirt that would actually affect the key action. What's really working well with this particular vacuum, rather than blowing it all out, I'm able to actually dislodge all of the filth on the side of the keys with the brush attachment. And that's actually uh lifting off even more dirt than the... the free and loose dirt that's underneath the keys. So easy to run it in between the letters and numbers. And just look at the chunks of fills coming out from underneath the space bar. I didn't realize there was quite that much. Quite a lot of dog hair. It has to be said. It's good that it's sort of dislodging all of that caked on dust that's on the sides of the keys. Just makes the thing look nicer as well as run more efficiently. Looking at the box on... on this, it's good for cereal upholstery, coffee. This would work really well in a car, I think, as well. Just getting into all of those nooks and cran crannies. This is the real test, though. Let's see how much filth is in the dust bin. So, I'll take off the nozzle and I think I can pull the filter out with my finger. Wow, look at all that. That's just from a few minutes with no charge as well, just with the charge that the vacuum came in the box. That has brought out so much stuff from underneath the keys. And that might be really good to run on my... on my laptop as well. I might run this over. So, obviously there are two different ways of doing this now. You either blow it out and it goes everywhere. Or you could do the tidier version of using a vacuum to suck it out and then you can actually see how much stuff comes... comes off. Is this helping? Are these things that you need in your life? Let me know down in the comments below. And I'll leave links to something that's close to these two. Either a handheld vacuum or just a compressed air blower. Thank you for hitting the thumbs up or the subscribe button. and it really helps me to keep this channel going. And right here is what YouTube knows you want to be watching next.
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Should we go to the park? Let's go to the park at 50K. No, at 4K 50 frames per second. Do you want to go to the park? Should we go to the park? Yeah. Should we go to the park? Come on then. This video is only meant to be a first. Oh, Casper. I just I thought I'd uh come and take the uh the camera out with me for a walk with Casper and I'll do lots of talking so you get to see lots of DJI Osmo Nano footage. I better clean this up first. This is 4K 50 frames per second. The stabilization is on rock steady. So there is some stabilization here. And the field of view is set to wide. So this is the wide option. And uh I'll just do a little bit more talking just so you can get a sense of uh what this footage uh looks like and sounds like. Oh, by the way, I've got my DJI Mic 2 attached as well. I'll I'll give you some footage with no wireless microphone so you can see how the or hear how the camera sounds. This is 4K 50 frames pers and ultra wide. So you should notice that you can see more of the park behind me, but if I point it towards Casper, he's he's run ahead, but he should be just a dot on the screen here. And um the stabilization is still rock steady. And I'll just do a bit more talking just so you can get a sense of uh how this looks. I will be quite upset, I think, if this camera is deliberately putting my face in the center of the screen. I I just wouldn't frame things like that. And when I bend the camera down, it just seems to keep moving my head towards the middle of the frame. Not sure I like that if it's happening. This is ultra wide with horizon balancing. So, this has the horizon balancing. So, if I move the camera, it just I'm tilting it up. I'm rocking it. Um, but you won't be able to see that, I think, because it balances the horizon. So, however I move the camera, I still should be steady. Also, I don't know how my eye line looks because because I've got the monitor on. Obviously, I'm just looking at that all the time. And that means I break eyeline from you, which is the lens, down to there. So, it means I I keep looking down there. Uh be interesting to see in the edit if that looks really weird. I'm trying to force my eye line onto the lens. Anyway, let's change again...
How do you transfer, copy or move DJI Osmo Nano camera video footage files from the DJI Nano to a Macbook laptop? I walk through where the DJI Nano video files are and how to transfer them to my Macbook drive.
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I am transferring footage for the first time from the DJI Osmo Nano. I've got the cable that it came with that goes into here. You lift up this flap and I'll plug that into the USB-C port. And then I'll plug the other end into my MacBook Pro. And then I'll switch the camera on, allow accessory to connect, and that brings up this menu. So, the three options here are file transfer, internal storage, file transfer, SD card, or charging only. I'm going to choose internal storage because I haven't actually transferred anything over. Now, I'll open up Finder. And on locations, it says Osmo Nano. So, I'll click on this, double click on it, and you can see there are three folders here. DCIM, lost and found, and MISC. I'm going to open DCIM. and it says DJI 001. And here you can see lots of files. So, I'm going to run this as a list, but you can probably see that there are JPEGs there. That's where I took a a photo by accident. And I also have MP4s. So, if I view this as a list, you can see that every MP4 also has an LRF file. I think that's just for thumbnails. We don't need those. We just need the MP4 files. And one way to sort these is to go to kind on here. If I sort and I click on kind, it will sort it by the types of file. And all the MP4s are neatly there together. I'll open up another finder window and I'll open up the window that I want to transfer to. So, this is the folder that I want to transfer to. And all I do is select all the MP4s that I want here and then drag them over to the folder that I need them in. So, that is how to transfer footage from a DJI Osmo Nano onto a MacBook Pro into a storage device or hard drive on your MacBook. I hope this video is helping. If so, have a look at my other DJI Osmo Nano videos. Thank you for hitting the thumbs up or the subscribe button and say hi in the comments. It' be lovely to hear from you. Good luck with your DJI Osmo Nano
Is the DJI Osmo Nano the best camera for your YouTube videos?
I'm unboxing and first impressions reviewing this camera, so you can see exactly what it's like straight out of the box.
What's it like in a real-world setting? What are the accessories in the standard combo?
I share my honest first impressions: including a couple of things that surprisingly frustrated me.
Also showing how to set up the camera, how to pair it with the DJI Mimo app and my DJI Mic 2, and what the footage looks like from a walk in the park with my dog Casper (Spoiler: I try the camera on his dog harness...). There's also comparison sample footage of the DJI Osmo Nano VS. DJI Pocket 3. Plus, as I paid for this myself and I'M NOT SPONSORED, this is an honest review.
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This is the DJI Osmo Nano camera. Is this the best camera for you to make videos on YouTube? I am opening up this camera on camera in real time so you can see what it's like straight out of the box and I'll also set up the camera in real time so you can follow along. You can avoid any of the mistakes I make along the way. We'll have a look at the accessories that come in the box. And I'll even take you on a walk with me and Casper in the park just to show you some different settings just so you can see what the footage looks like straight out of the camera. I'll also be pairing this with the DJI Mimo app, which is a faff and a kerfuffle. And I'll also be pairing it with this the DJI Mic 2 that I got from my Pocket 3 camera. We'll be pairing this to see how easy that process is and also see how the camera sounds with the internal microphone as well as wireless DJI microphone. By the way, I paid for this camera with my own money. I'm not sponsored by DJI, unlike many, many other videos out there. This is an honest first impressions review. I got this DJI Nano here in the UK from John Lewis, uh my favourite store. I'll break into this box as quickly as possible, but just give you a quick tour of the box so you can pause and uh read the writing on the packaging. It's really small. The box is a lot smaller than I thought it would be. It's about 3/4 of the height of my hand. I bought the standard combo bundle standard in French. And I've got the 128 GB version of the DJI Osmo Nano. Did I mention by the way that I paid for this with my own money? And in the wrapping in the packaging, it's it comes magnetized already. That's nice, isn't it? Holds it together. Let's open it up. Ah, the camera itself. Uh, so here it says, "Contacts and slots may become hot during use. Avoid prolonged contact." Yeah. Don't burn your fingers is what it's saying. And then on the lens here, it says, "Tighten the lens protective cover before taking in water." So, it's just a reminder here. Oh, that uh you should make sure that this is screwed on tightly before you go dunking it in the bath. Let's take this off to reveal the contacts and the two grips for the monitor. They don't call it a monitor. What do they call it? This is the multi-function vision dock. And just give you an idea of the size in my hand. On the top here, it says, "Do not use the multifunctional vision dock underwater." Uh, okay. So you can splash it when it's attached to the camera. And oh, that's lovely. And I did try to buy protective screens for this camera. They're not quite out yet cuz I've got this the day after release. I'll just give you a tour of the multi-function vision dock. What wasn't clear on many videos was how how these grippers work. They are metal from the from the feel of it. And obviously if you push the buttons either side, that's what releases the camera. And there are these pins and like a gripper. It's like a rubberized gripper either side of it to help hold it in place. So if I bring it onto the camera for the first time, what happens? You can just push it down. You don't need to press the buttons to fix the camera to the multi- vision multifunctional vision dock. Excuse me. And saw a little glimmer of power. Should we power it up? I'll just give you a quick spin. The camera does remind me of the latest Well, it's not the latest, the mic, too. Uh, should I take it off? Just compare it with a microphone, a DJI. Well, you can't hear me now. I'll point it towards me. A DJI microphone. And forgive me, I'm sitting at a really weird angle, which is really tripping off my benign essential tremor. And it comes with uh some power in here already. If I touch the screen, it actually comes out of the box with 55% battery in the multifunctional vision dock and 75% in the camera. Then there's another box of bits. Let's empty it out. Ooh, it's a quick start guide. This is a magnetic lanyard and the camera, I guess, sticks to it like this. Now, if you had a DJI Action 2, I will be comparing it in many of my videos because I love this thing. The lanyard for this was a lot smaller. I'll just compare it. Again, only if you if you've had this before. And you don't have the part that falls off and you got to call DJI to buy another one. I love the fact that this is just a single lanyard. And there's some warnings on it. And you can also put the the hats clip on it as well. Talking of which, it's tucked into the case here. This is the magnetic hat clip. Now, I've been looking at this on videos online trying to work out how it works and how grippy it is. I was kind of hoping there'd be like a super powerful hinge, but it just looks like a clip. It's just folded round uh plastic material by the feel of it. And I was hoping this would be like more like a bulldog grip or hinge, but it isn't. It just kind of slides on. So, I wanted to attach this to my dog's harness just to see if we can get a dog cam shot. I'll see if I can do that by the end of the video. The mount swivels on the hat clip clip. It kind of pivots forward and backwards. And it kind of implies on the lanyard that you can put the clip on like this and use this as a tilt to get a more precise angle, which would be really handy for my bike rides. If you just put it straight onto the lanyard, it just points forward. So, if you attach the the clip, it can not only get a more fine angle, but you can also remove it and clip it to something else. Ah! Oh my goodness. Do you see that? Look, I've injured myself. Whoa. That is powerful. There's no warning sticker for that. Ow. Quick, let's open some more stuff while I can while I still have the ability. This is very kind of DJI. They have learned the lessons of the DJI Action 2 where I had to send these out after release. So, this is a protective cover. It does just push in and you can see there's some pins inside. Uh, so if I push this in like that, goes in very easily. That is a really welcome because I do drop these things a lot. And then the multi-functional vision dock can clip to it just as easily as it clips to the camera. Really, really nice touch there. So good not having to have to go buying things from third party suppliers quite yet. So that's good. Then there is the dual direction magnetic ball joint adapter mount. It is the longest title for a a mount. Dual direction magnetic ball joint adapter mount. Oh, this is great because the Action 2 came with this but without the suction cup. Look. Oh, you can. Again, no reviewers mentioned this. Uh, the suction cup can come off. So, you can put this onto any kind of normal tripod thread. That is fantastic. So, I put that on a a normal tripod or any accessory that that has that like a magic arm. This means that I can put this onto my favourite hand grip. Or crucially, you could have a buoyant hand grip. So, if you did drop it, Whoa. If you did drop it into the sea, it would uh float. Oh, that that is really helpful. I didn't realize the ball cup came off. And what's great about these grips, I've not gone into DJI action cameras, so you're probably used to these if you have, but I love how it doesn't come off unless you click the buttons. But really satisfyingly, all you have to do is just push it on and it clips really easily. So that's a really lovely, lovely touch there. That just screws in there. And maybe I could use this with some other accessories as well. Oh, I love that. Really great stuff. Finally, there's a beautiful USB C to USB-C cable. It looks like 50 cm. Now, I... I know what you want. I know that you want me to switch this thing on. So, we'll do it. I promise we'll do it. So, let's go back down. I'll clip the multi-functional vision dock to the camera. And you can turn it on, apparently, by pressing this button or this button. So, shall I press this button? See what happens. Oo. language, English, just trees. Now, some people have an issue with this, and this is a really big thing for this camera. It happened with the Pocket 3, too. Happened with my Action 2. To make the camera work, you need to pair it to the DJI Mimo app, and I'm going to do that on camera with you. DJI only allow you to skip doing that five times. So, you can only power up the camera five times without connecting it to the DJI Mimo app where it'll update the firmware. It does all lots of good things, but some people quite rightly feel uh aggrieved. They feel it's not good that you need to be data mined in order to use a camera that you've bought. On the other side, it just means that it is kept up to date all the time. And I... I found it difficult. It says on Amazon for the Pocket 3, it said lots and lots were returned. And you can see in the comments, it was for that very reason that you have to pair it with the DJI app. I went through that process with my Action 2. So, I've kind of got over myself with it. But I can completely appreciate that this might be an obstacle, a hurdle as to whether or not you want to buy this thing. Now, it's giving me a quick start guide. Covers open cover at bottom of multifunctional vision dock. So, that is this thing here. It just pulls up. You You literally there's no button or anything. You just force it up to break the clip seal. And you can see there's a gasket. There's like a rubber ring here. And that keeps this area splashproof. And uh inside there's a space for a micro SD card slot and the USBC charging port and data port. So I'll just click that back on. Tap to check battery level. You can tap that little battery icon there. On the video settings, we can tap to set stabilization mode and field of view. So, if I click on that, got from wide to dewarp. I really like the dewarp. Uh, it's sort of I think it stops that sort of fisheye kind of look. And then with the stabilization, you can have rock steady, you can have it off, you can have rock steady, which stabilizes the footage, and then horizon balancing, which is great because you can kind of move it around like this, and it'll always keep the horizon steady. And I do that when I'm wearing it or when I'm holding it and I'm kind of winging my hand around. So, if I turn it off, oh, it says swipe down. I'm recording at the moment, but it says here, swipe down to set length of time before screen turns off. Now, that'll be in the settings, but that's great that you can do it straight from the front screen. Hello. This is the first video, by the way, on my DJI Nano. I set the screen to turn off after a few seconds if I'm wearing it because then I don't have people staring at me with this big big monitor. So, I just use the monitor for long enough to frame it and then I just carry on recording and the screen goes off. But anyway, wow, I am really pleased with this. Uh, it's so easy to hold. Let's bring this camera up. So, it's a a bug bear with vlogging cameras. Let's move this camera back. It's a bit of a bug bear that cameras claim to be vlogging cameras. And for me, a vlogging camera is something you can hold at this distance, just comfortably with your arm, not stretched out, and for all of your face and your surroundings to be in the in the picture. What is strange is that I'm holding it at arms length and my head is in the middle of the frame, which I don't really like. Yeah, it is. Do you know what? This is really odd. I don't know if this is some kind of AI setting in the camera, but I'm holding it and it's my head is in the middle. It's censoring my head and I have to really turn it down. I don't like that. That is really irritating. However I position the camera, it's centering my face in the middle of the screen and I want it in the top third. That is really strange. However much I move this camera, it centers my face in the middle. I wonder if that's a setting I can turn off. So, this is the horizon balancing. If I turn it left and right like this, it keeps the I'm really turning the camera a lot each way and it's keeping it's keeping the image stable. And I wonder if it's that that's making my face appear in the middle of the screen. I'm trying to tilt down. Right. So, that's that's how I want it to be framed. And it's still it's moving my face to the middle. Let's turn horizon balancing off. Well, that's tuneful, isn't it? Now, I have 1080p, 25 frames per second. And this is rock steady. And again, this is this is a real shock for me that the camera keeps centering a face in the middle of the screen. Now, some people don't mind that. They seem to think that's a great feature of the Pocket 3. I think it looks appalling and I want my face higher, but do as much as I can like that. It's I have to hold the camera at a really strange angle. No, it's it's it's AIing my face to be in the middle of the in the middle of the screen. And that is that is not good. That is really not good. Let's turn stabilization off. Maybe that could be the answer to this. So, this is with stabilization turned off. And let's have a look. Yeah, I can. No, it's it's still putting Look, it's Casper. It still seems to be putting my face in the middle of the screen. Leave me a comment if you're having this situation with your DJI Osmo Nano. What's going on? What is it? Do you not like the centering of the faces in the middle of the screen? I've worked in TV for over three decades. And one of the first things you learn in TV, and maybe I don't know, maybe vlogging is is seen differently. One of the things that makes a an image comfortable to watch is that the the head is like this, not like that. And this is a bit of a shocker actually for me. This was just meant to be a simple unboxing, but I might as well go off on one now. There are two features why I wanted to buy this that are absolutely fantastic for me. Mind-blowing that we have this technology. The monitor, the multi-functional vision dock is completely, so I'm doing this in bright sunshine, is completely detached from the camera, and yet I can uh look at what the camera is seeing straight from the vision dock, the the monitor, which is absolutely incredible. I'm going to use this a lot, I think, because having to get out your phone and fire up the DJI Mimo app to check your framing if you're wearing this thing. I could just slip this monitor into my pocket. To me, this is absolutely mind-blowing sci-fi. So, I'm really grateful. This is where things get fiddly. So, I'm going to start up my DJI Mimo app, and I'm going to show you how I'm pairing it so that you can you might learn from my mistakes. So, I'm going to turn on the camera. Oh, I've got low battery in the vision dock. I might need to connect a cable. Right. So, it says Osmo Nano already disconnected. Power on camera and place close to multi-functional vision dock. Where's the camera? What have I done with the camera? And I'll hit connect. And then it goes through the the opening menu again. So, we'll choose English. Whoa. And as if by magic, it Oh, it it found the camera. I just hit the camera icon at the bottom there and I didn't even have to use the QR code. It just found the camera. So, if I hit connect, that's incredible. Check verification code on DJI device. Well, that looks similar. So, I'll hit accept on the camera. Then we have the terms and conditions where, you know, we hand over everything everywhere for all time ever. Agree. Activate Osmo Nano. Activate your Osmo device when you connect it for the first time to receive warranty. So, I choose allow access, then hit next. I don't want to show you my email address, but I've hit the activate button. DJI Care. Don't want that. I'll skip that. Which is quite a bold move given how many DJI cameras I've broken. Uh, questionnaire. Don't want to do that. Activation successful. Fantastic. So, I hit get started. Enjoy live view in DJI Mimo. Is it Mimo or MIMO? I ask that in every video I make. Manage files with efficiency. And there's uh tutorials for advanced skills and update firmware regularly. So now we are downloading firmware. I'll speed this up now to download to 50%. We can choose to install. I I'll uncheck this box cuz I can do it off the uh off the mobile. Says device not connected. So, I'll hit connect. Now I can continue installing the firmware. Update. Success. That's good. So, I'll hit done. And now it reconnects to the camera. You can see on the screen here it says updated. There we go. So, it can see the the files on the phone. They have a date of 1980. I'll click back to live view on the camera and I'll click the camera button here. And just like the multifunctional vision dock, I can I can see myself on the on the phone. So I can record using the Mimo app. Now we have updated the camera. Let's see if I can attach my DJI Mic 2 to this. The first time I'm doing this, so learn from my mistakes. We'll swipe down from the top and then I'll choose the mic option in settings. And then I'll select TX1 transmitter 1. And it says power on Osmo and audio and pair. So I'll turn this on. Let's hold down this button again for three seconds to see if I can get it to flash blue. It's flashing blue. So now I'll hold down the link button for 3 seconds and then I'll let go. And it's connected. So I had I had a bit of trouble linking that. I think you just got to do it again and again until it links. I'll hit confirm. So now if I speak into this, you can see it's peeking red. But now I have the mic 2 connected. So if I put the the windshield on and if I start recording on the Osmo 2, I am now speaking to you. Let's pull out this power lead. I'm now speaking to you on this the DJI Mic 2. It looks like I'm well in the red there. Should we go to the park? Let's go to the park at 50K. No, at 4K 50 frames per second. Do you want to go to the park? Should we go to the park? Yeah. Should we go to the park? Come on then. This video is only meant to be a first. Oh, Casper. Just I thought I'd uh come and take the camera out with me for a walk with Casper and I'll do lots of talking so you get to see lots of DJI Osmo Nano footage. I better clean this up first. This is 4K 50 frames pers. The stabilization is on rock steady. So there is some stabilization here. And the field of view is set to wide. So this is the wide option. And uh I'll just do a little bit more talking just so you can get a sense of uh what this footage uh looks like and sounds like. Oh, by the way, I've got my DJI Mic 2 attached as well. I'll I'll give you some footage with no wireless microphone so you can see how the or hear how the camera sounds. This is 4K 50 frames pers and ultra wide. So you should notice that you can see more of the park behind me, but if I point it towards Casper, he's he's run ahead, but he should be just a dot on the screen here. And um the stabilization is still rock steady. And I'll just do a bit more talking just so you can get a sense of uh how this looks. I will be quite upset, I think, if this camera is deliberately putting my face in the center of the screen. I... I just wouldn't frame things like that. And when I bend the camera down, it just seems to keep moving my head towards the middle of the frame. Not sure I like that if it's happening. This is ultra wide with horizon balancing. So, this has the horizon balancing. So, if I move the camera, it just I'm tilting it up. I'm rocking it. Um, but you won't be able to see that, I think, because it balances the horizon. So, however I move the camera, I still should be steady. Also, I don't know how my eye line looks because because I've got the monitor on. Obviously, I'm just looking at that all the time. And that means I break eye line from you, which is the lens down to there. So, it means I keep looking down there. Uh be interesting to see in the edit if that looks really weird. I'm trying to force my ey line onto the lens. Anyway, let's change again. We've come out of uh 4K and I've put it on the settings that I I prefer for all my videos. That's 1080p at 25 frames pers and I still have the horizon balancing on. So, and I'm out of breath. All All I'm doing is walking in a park and I sound like I've done a marathon. Uh things I do for this channel, I it's worth it. Exercise every morning. And so I don't know how how this is looking and sounding for you, but this would be pretty much my settings for most of the time. I think I like the horizon balancing because it does mean I can carry it around in my hand and not get the shaky shaky hands look. I've got an experiment that I want to do. Is this this could work, it might not work. I've brought out the the hat clip and I just wonder if Casper might play along with this. Come here. Come here, Casper. Come here. What I'm going to do, I'm going to clip. Good boy. I'm going to clip the hat clip onto his harness. I really do not want this to fall off, but that feels like a a good grip. Oh, no. Good boy. Good boy. And then I'm going to move the camera and I'm going to clip the camera onto onto his harness. Oh, hang on. Good boy. Okay, I really don't know if this this is going to work, but I've sent Gasper off. He's gone over there. I can see on the monitor there's something that's really irritating me already. I hope this gets changed in a firmware update or it's a menu setting I've not found yet. It's supposed to be a feature that when the camera tilts up, when you when you hold the camera portrait orientation, it records portrait orientation. And I I don't want that. I just want it to be landscape even if it's flipped to its side. And the action two let me do that. So horizon balancing works all the way around. Um so if you hold the camera like this for sort of demonstrate it would always it would always keep the the horizon but because Casper is moving around and the camera is moving up and down uh it's flipping into portrait mode and I don't know how that footage is going to look in the edit. Maybe it's just a display thing. I'm hoping that it's recorded all of this footage in landscape orientation. Now, I'm recording the footage you're seeing now on my DJI Pocket 3 camera, which I adore. I absolutely love the footage that comes from this, and maybe this is a good comparison for you. But the problem with it is that is so delicate. I've honestly I've had really bad uh moments of terror with my Pocket 3 and my Pocket One as well. I put this camera on the wall and it just fell off. It's Oh, no. The magnetism wasn't uh strong enough to hold it to the metal thing in the wall. It is so nice having a camera that I can just hold at this kind of distance. It doesn't have to be like that like my Sony ZV1. I can hold it like this and it it just feels really comfortable. It's so light. Um, if you want a hand grip, I'll put a link in the description. It feels so good. And it also feels good that I could just drop this. I I could hurl it into the grass and I know it'll be okay. I've got one other immediate first impression. It's a bit of a niggle. Let's turn the camera around. And it might just be the the suction cup holder, but this magnetic holder here with the multi-function view thing. I've forgotten what it's called now. Look, look at the wobble on it. It really wobbles.
Uh I don't know if it's because of the weight of the stack, but if I put the camera straight onto this, it's it's pretty rock steady to use DJ eyes term, but this this is big. wobble wobble wobble that obviously you probably won't even see it on screen because of the stabilization but it's a little bit a little bit irritating if if I'm going to be really finikity and maybe should I give you a little comparison just quick comparison I'm going to make a whole video about this comparing the DJI Osmo Nano with the DJI Pocket 3 but just for the fun of it let's just give you a quick comparison So, I'm holding the two cameras side by side. I'll just give you a pan. Let's see if we can catch up with Casper. I'm holding the cameras in a really strange way. Just hold side by side just to give you as close a comparison as possible. So, this is the DJI Osmo Nano and this is the DJI Osmo Pocket 3. Does it have the word Osmo in it? I don't know. the DJI Pocket 3. I'll just cut between them again. So, this is DJI Nano and let's run up to Casper. Casper, come here. Come. Good boy. Come. And this is the Pocket 3 just to give you a comparison. I'm sure there are settings in here that might be uh affecting things, but just as kind of a first glance cutting between the two, it'll just give you an idea of uh what the differences might be straight out of the box for the DJI Nano. Let's do some movement. Casper's not playing ball. Come here, Casper. Casper, good boy, Casper. Right, let's go. Go in.
Good boy. I'm now going to wear the DJI Osmo Nano hidden under here. I'm wearing the lanyard. And if I turn it round, it should just snap on without grabbing too many chest hairs. There we go. So, this is me walking around on Dwarp and horizon balancing stabilization. It's so steady. I'm like a human tripod. And this is how it looks to wear. It's a bit difficult to gauge from the different videos online of how big this looks. Does it look like a brooch? Uh, I'll let you be the the judge of that. This is how it looks to wear. And if I cut back to the camera, I mean, it's quite a boring. It's quite a boring shot, isn't it? Because it's so steady. And this is where the hat clip comes in. I've got the hat clip that's fresh from where Casper was wearing it. If I take off the camera, it's a really strong magnet. And then put on the hat clip and then clip the nano to the hat clip, I can now have some control over the tilting. So, if I cut back to the Nano, I've got a bit less sky now. So, that is a much better shot. I mean, obviously on my chest, the camera is protruding somewhat and it's wobbling as well because, you know, the the weight of it is now away from the lanyard and it's kind of pulling on my shirt. So, it is wobbling around. It's not very discreet at all. But if I cut back to the Nano's point of view, you can see that it's a much better framed shot. And if I tilt it down even more, I can tilt it down on the hat clip. So I can really focus on the on the path here. You've got some degree of controlling the the frame while you're wearing it. But it does look really stupid. Look at it. It's just wobbling around. Not that you could tell that from the footage. If I cut back to the camera, it's so steady. That's the rock steady stabilization. Wow, this is much more footage than I thought I was going to take. This was supposed to be just uh opening the box, first impressions review. I've I've tried to show you some things on the camera. So, what do you think? Is this something that you might use for your YouTube channel? Let me know your thoughts in the comments below. I just get these things out the box and start recording. So, I hope there's something in this video that you might find useful if you're deciding whether or not to get one of these. I've put all my DJI Osmo Nano videos into this playlist on screen now. And obviously, if you hit subscribe, you'll be able to see my updates. I'll I'll share how things go with this camera. Thank you for hitting the thumbs up button if you've made it to this point in the video and good luck with your DJI Osmo Nano.
How do you protect your expensive MacBook Pro? After years of using a basic hard shell, I'm unboxing and reviewing two new protective cases for my 14-inch M1 MacBook Pro (and my son's!). I'll compare the popular Soonjet and Se7enLine (Sevenline) brands, highlighting their curved fit, corner protection, ventilation, and how they stack up against an older model. What are the pros and cons of these hard shell cases, plus long-term wear, portability with accessories? Plus, find out if I finally found the perfect MacBook case on Amazon for ultimate protection and style.
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You know, I think I spent way too long looking into this for what I found, but what is the best way to protect my MacBook Pro? I have a 14 in M1, but if you have a MacBook Pro, 13in, 14in, 16, is there a 16in? What case options are there for us out there? Uh, I'm looking on Amazon, and I've only I only seem to have found one type of case, which are these these ones. I bought two here. So, I thought I'd open them up and show you what they're like because I've pretty much bought exactly the same thing about 3 years ago. Let me show you how that's fared in 3 years. So, I've used this every day and there's there's a crack on the side here and I think that's just from tension. I don't think I've actually dropped it or caused any pressure on it, but just over time because there's such a strain on the protective case on the MacBook. It's kind of cracked at the edges. Big crack there. And uh you can see internal cracks there. I'll just show you how I how I use mine. This is switched off so I can unplug this. I have a Samsung T7 external hard drive so that if I do something calamitous like dropping say a pint of apple juice onto my MacBook Pro. Here's some footage that I'm not proud of. The problem with the MacBook Pro though is that it stays it stays on and every time you press a key it turns itself on. So you can't actually turn itself off. So, I think I'm a bit fed up with the MacBook Pro because it seems to be designed to be destroyed. That seems to be deliberate, not being able to turn off the power on. But on on my case, it's allowed me to put on some of this 3M dual lock tape, which means that I can uh tape up my hard drives and just clip them on. And the best cable I found is the Amazon Basics tiny cable. The other small cables just don't have the same data transfer rate. But anyway, that's why I've got these weird bits of tape here. You can get fabric sleeves to hold a hard drive, but they I think they fall out. That's a sticker from a Domino's box. But I'm going to open up and unbox these h these two protective cases just to see if they're identical. I'll leave a link down in the description so you can see your options with the the MacBook Protective cases. This first one, it's lovely. It's from a brand called Soonjet and really nice packaging. I've got a feeling though it's going to be exactly the same inside as this, which is the seven line uh protective case. Just comes in a bag. I think they're going to be the same. Hi. Oh, thank you. You sure? Yeah. My son has just very generously donated his MacBook Pro 14in M1 for the demonstration as well, so we can compare them side by side. Uh his looks absolutely beautiful and pristine, and mine doesn't. And it's sort of because of the case. I'll show you the problem with the case. So, let's open up the soonjet case. And you've gone for the space gray clear. A nice nice packaging. That protect for MacBook. Do you know what? This already feels so much more premium than the one I had before, which was more like this. Oh, this is nice. So, the way these work is that you have this top part that clips to the to the lid, the monitor, and then you have this bottom part. This already looks much better. I think you've got the better you've got the better case there. And there are vents. Do you want to show the vents? Those vents allow for the fans to to blow out. But where yours is different, show the corners. I don't have that on mine. Compare it with this. This is my current case. No corners. There's no corners. If you drop it. So, which one do you want to do first? You want to do the the lid, the bottom? Okay. It's literally just
there. Done. Is that it? Yeah, that's it. Oh, there's a little snap sound. A few snaps. Oh, you're so much nicer. That looks really good. Okay, so then we'll we'll clip on the the lid now. Yeah, that front. Yeah, it goes on the split here.
Literally just push down. Oh my goodness, that looks so good. there. Great. And then do you want to give it a 360 for the camera so you can see all the edges and you can see that the ports are clear on the side. So the problem I've got with the old with the old case as well is that over time the feet over time the the feet slip and fall off and you have to kind of stick them back on. The soonjet Oh, the feet are super. The soonjet case looks absolutely fantastic. You get thumbs up and I love the corner protection. Let's open the other one now, which is called Se7enLine. And it's got a funny 7where the V should be. And I went for pink. See, I didn't I didn't like this rose pink. I want something really candy pink. I want some more pink in my life. Cheer me up. So, you get the the base and the top. Oh, look. I've got um corner protection. Can you hold this up to the camera? So, I do have corner protection. They cost about the same amount of money, but I prefer your unboxing experience, I think. Yeah, that plastic's This is just in a bag. So, it's basically the same design. So, this looks identical. Can you see any differences? This has clips here instead. And I've got yours doesn't have like a big clip there. Casper. We got Casper in the background. He's rolling around back. You see Casper?
What are you doing? He always manages to sit in front of the camera when we're doing this. See, I don't know how he knows. Now, these have got really complex instructions. Do you want to hold that up to the camera? And it's all about the order of clipping it on, but I I think it's going to be really simple. So, let's take off my old case. And I think I'd literally just pull it off, right? That is literally like the same thing. Right. So, that's the old one. And I'll show you the problem with these cases. Let me show you the problem. Hold it up to camera and we'll try to explain the problem. So, oh, you can see on the edge. Look at the edge, Joe. Around there. Look. Go. Big close up. So, the problem sand. It's got sand on it. The problem is I put my laptop in my bag. I put my Apple MacBook Pro M1 14in in my bag with its protective case. And the protective case over time gets grit, sand. You've got salt in the charger. There's all kinds of debris and grit. If I squeeze it too hard, I can hear the grit. You can hear it crunch. Yeah. Oh, man. And and when you have the case on it, it kind of holds it against the external case of the of the MacBook and it kind of grinds it in. I mean, I'll try and use a cloth to buff it up, but I think I've got like lots of micro scratches. So, the protection's good, but the downside is it does I mean, look. Hold that up to camera. Show how filthy it gets because it just holds on to the dirt. Yeah. I'll put the top one on first. There's clips there. I'll do it like this. And then you line it up with the top and then you just...
you just push it down. He's in the garden digging. You just push it and then just stays on like that. You can open it and it won't come off. So now we clip the bottom on. I'll do the back first. Might drop it. It's just your work laptop with everything in it. It's so easy. You can just It's like putting on a phone case, right? And you just feel it around to see if you can click any tabs. Fantastic. And can you give us a 360 tour of the edges? So, as you can see on the edges, it's really nice air vents at the bottom there. They're fewer vents on this one, but they're larger. And there's a gap on the side for my ports, my USB-C ports, and the charging ports. HDMI port. What I love about this one, which is different from my one I've had for 3 years, those show those corner protection pieces, that is absolutely fantastic. So, case technology has moved on in 3 years. And they're not that expensive given, you know, the cost of the Apple MacBook that it's protecting. So, that feels really protected now. I'm not so sure about the color. I wanted it to be I like the color. Do you do you like it? I think it's good in a dark room. Okay. I think it's just cuz it's light. So, you can get these different colors, different designs. They they they're all pretty much the same. Can you put a closeup there? I just want to show the how the mat is different. It's kind of textured, so it feels uh like a a ripply texture. And then you're able to open it up. I actually have a protective screen on my my monitor there that doesn't seem to clash with the uh protective case. So, there you have it. Uh, our MacBook Pros are now protected. What do you think? Is this the kind of case you would want? Have you found any other type of case? Maybe. I just want a silicon, a rubbery one like like you have with phone cases. But in the meantime, I'm really happy with these. I'll have links to them down in the description. Thank you if you've reached this point of the of the video for hitting the thumbs up or the subscribe button. It really helps me to keep this channel going. And right here is what YouTube knows you want to be watching next. Maybe on your MacBook Pro.
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Here's how to set up YouTube memberships and start earning money from your channel with me. This step-by-step guide walks you through the entire process - in real time on my actual channel - from exploring membership perks to launching your offer and engaging with your inner circle of paying subscribers. I'll show how to create exclusive content, build a community, and maybe just maybe take our YouTube earnings to the next level.
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If you're thinking of earning money here on YouTube, or are already earning money on YouTube, you've probably seen this: it's the join button. It's usually next to the subscribe button, and you might know this already, but that is something called YouTube memberships. It's a way for us YouTube creators to be supported by viewers who pay a subscription fee every month. We can charge however much we like per month, and viewers can stop and leave the membership at any time. How cool is that?
We're about to find out because there are things that we can offer in return for that membership fee, like early access to videos — that's releasing videos before they're seen by non-members. Members-only videos, where the videos can only be seen by the fee-paying, subscribing members. There's also stupid stuff like emojis and badges that members can use on their comments. It's like an inner circle of subscribers who pay us every month, and it's one of the many overwhelming ways we can earn money here on YouTube.
Now, I'm going to sign my channel up to YouTube memberships right now so you can follow along with me, and we will see how easy or difficult this process is. You're obviously watching this in the future, so I don't know if you can do this on the Studio app, the YouTube Studio app. I've got it on screen now. There's a tab at the bottom marked "Earn." I'm going to click on "Earn," and you can see the different... if you're a YouTube Partner already, you can see all the different options for earning money on YouTube. I'm going to click on "Memberships," and here it says, "Grow your community and earn monthly." Here are the benefits on screen now, and then at the bottom there's a button marked, "Explore next steps." Click on that. So, it looks like you can do this on mobile. I'm going to do this on desktop because I find it a lot easier to show you what's going on, and also it's a lot easier for me to click on the right thing.
On the YouTube Studio dashboard on desktop, on the left-hand side, you can see these menu items or tabs. If you can't see these, there's a little hamburger icon that opens and closes them at the top. And if you scroll down near the bottom of the list, is this tab here marked "Earn." So, we're going to click on that, and this is the overwhelming list of all the ways we can earn money on YouTube at time of recording. Let me put my glasses on. Let's click on "Memberships." "Grow your community and earn monthly." "Earn 70% of net revenue when you offer perks." "Explore next steps." And here is a window to set up the memberships offer. "Choose a template to work with." You can use a template or you can create your memberships from scratch.
Now, because I'm in the UK, it's offering my tiers in British pounds, but I think viewers from around the world will be offered these tiers in local currencies. There's a template for four levels that goes up to £44.99, that's about $55-$60. And then I can start from scratch. I might do that. Should we start from scratch? So, I'll just go for one simple level to start with. I think I can add levels later on if I want to, but you can't change the levels that you create. You have to create new levels. So, we're going to customize our offer. If I click on "Edit level name," "Cup of Coffee Tier." Now, this is probably the hardest part of this: is choosing how much to charge your members. I know you're going to be feeling the same things that I'm feeling, which is you don't want to charge too much, you don't want to be too ostentatious. This is just an experiment, and I would recommend to you that you treat this as an experiment and just make something up. You're not going to destroy your YouTube channel doing this.
So, I can choose the monthly price, and you can set it in whatever currency you like, and it's going to be converted and adjusted for each viewer. So, let's do it for U.S. because I think I've quite a number of viewers in the U.S. Hello, you're most welcome. Select a price. Yeah, $2.99 is popular. I like the sound of $2.99, not that you can get a cup of coffee these days for $2.99. And then we've got perks. So, you can add loyalty badges. You can also upload your own. I'm going to do that later. I'm assuming that I can do this later. So, you come with the default loyalty badges for however long you are a subscriber. And then there are emoji. And I think for these you do have to upload them, and it gives you the specifications for the icons that you can use. And down here we've got the button, "Add perk." So, these are the other perks that you can add. There's a pull-down menu for all the different things that you can offer. I'm going to go for early access to new videos, and I'll click on "Add perk." Bring the pull-down menu again. I will issue some members-only videos, but you can see these other perks that YouTube is suggesting. We've got members-only shorts, members-only live chats, and live streams. Got member shout-outs. I could do that. So, this will be a monthly shout-out to all my members with a mention of the YouTube channel name.
Now, I would offer all of this, but I find it so hard just to reply to the comments anyway and to make videos anyway. So, this is a bit of a stretch for me, and potentially it could only be for a few dollars a month. It's here to build, but it is quite a commitment. I feel joining my channel as a member really helps me to keep this channel going, so thank you. And on the instructions, I put, "It's much appreciated." We'll see if they allow that. But I want to let someone joining my channel as a member know that they can help me to keep this channel going by paying me a few dollars every month. So, I want to let them know that that is a perk. So, that's the "Cup of Coffee Tier." So, that looks pretty good, I think. I hope the emoji works, 'cause I really like the little cup of coffee there. And then I'm going to hit "Next."
So, this is my draft for review. Oh, it's going to be reviewed. So, I understand that once my offer is reviewed and approved, I'm unable to change prices. And this is really important: this tier will exist forevermore unless... and you can delete tiers and create new ones, but when you delete a tier, you lose all of the members who are on that tier. So, I'll now hit "Submit for review." I guess because of the custom tier and because of the instructions you write in, it has to be checked for community guidelines. So, I'm going to submit or hope coffee is okay, not seen as a bad substance.
So, that's it. "Your perks were successfully sent for review." I have a video ready to go for my members only. So, this is how I assign it to only appear to the paying members. You can do it in two places, but actually in the video details on YouTube Studio, you can see a pull-down menu on the right-hand side here: Visibility. If I click on that, you can see I have four options. It can either be private, so nobody gets to see it but me. It could be unlisted, which means that you can watch the video if you have the link, so it's not publicly searchable. And I could just make it go public to all my subscribers and anyone that finds it on YouTube. But there's this option here: members only. Yes, we've got members only. So, I'm going to hit "Done," and you can see it's got little rosettes there, which is lovely. This could be really nice, actually. It's quite a moment when you release a video, and I like the idea of just releasing videos to members only, and in that time, I could probably tweak the description and the subtitles and the, you know, all the other things like the cards and the end screen. I like the idea that I could kind of soft-release my videos to the members first and then make them go public.
And I have received this email from YouTube: "Your perks are in review. YouTube reviews all perks for compliance with Channel Memberships Policy, Terms of Service, and Community Guidelines. It usually takes up to 24 hours." It's now not even 1 hour later, 57 minutes later, I've received this email from YouTube: "Congratulations, you're one step closer to launching memberships. Head to your YouTube Studio to finish setting up your channel memberships today." So, this is a really important step. I didn't realize. I thought I'd done everything I need to do to enable memberships. So, I'm going to now go back to YouTube Studio, and there's nothing here. If I hit refresh, I wonder if there's any kind of banner or anything. No. So, what I'll do is I'll go over to the other tabs on the left-hand side of the screen, scroll down to this tab here, "Earn," which has the dollar icon. Dollar. There's "Finished setup" here, but if I click on the "Memberships" tab along the top here, "You're ready to launch." I was hoping there'd be like some kind of banner or something on the Studio, but you have to really root around the menus to get there or click on the link in the email. Let's click on the launch button. Come on, YouTube. "Congratulations, yes, you've launched memberships. A join button will appear on your videos and channel page so that viewers can access your memberships offer." So, I'll click on "Got it," and that opens up this new dashboard for me on YouTube Studio that shows the income from my zero members, and it looks like my income is $0 right now. But it gives you the revenue per 30 days — interesting, it's last 30 days rather than 28 days like all the other analytics — total members, members gained, and cancellations. Oh, it's something else to stress about on the YouTube channel as well as making more videos, but I'm grateful. This is good.
I've now changed channel to view one of my videos on this channel, and it doesn't look as if the join button has appeared yet. Maybe I'm just being too quick. Maybe it takes a while to happen. I'm going to have to... Oh, there it is! It's... it's appeared! Took a few minutes, but the join button has appeared, and there's a... there's a big, ugly, big old ugly arrow here saying, "Join this channel and unlock members-only perks" Oh, do I like that? I'm not sure. Let's open another video, see how it looks. Yeah, there you go, "Join." And then when you click the join button, it brings up this membership box: "Join this channel. Get access to membership perks" and there's my "Cup of Coffee Tier," "Loyalty badges," "Early access," and then my little thank you on the bottom, you know, just giving me money is just that's that's a perk. It really keeps this channel going. And if you hit the join button, it then invites you to set up payment details on your Google account. So, I am really, really pleased with this. It's been something I've been putting off for ages.
So, what do you think? Is this something that you might do for your YouTube channel or something you're looking forward to if you are aiming to become monetized here on YouTube? Let me know down in the comments below. It'd be really lovely to hear your experiences of the YouTube memberships as a viewer and as a channel creator. And thank you for hitting the join button. I can get to say that now. It really does mean a lot to me. You don't have to, because you can also help me by clicking the thumbs up or the subscribe button. That really helps me to keep this channel going. And right here is what YouTube knows you want to be watching next.
I broke my DJI Pocket 3 camera. I'm not sure how it happened, but suddenly, the gimbal stopped flipping up and would stay stuck in a weird, floppy portrait mode. After trying everything, I thought it was dead. But I found a simple, brute-force fix that brought it back to life. I'll show you the exact problem, the crucial moment where I fixed it by bending the gimbal back into place, and why you should probably always use a protective case. This video is an honest look at a frustrating camera problem and a completely unprofessional solution that worked.
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Didn't know we we he had it. What? It's Oh, no. Hello. Welcome back to the channel. This is a quick story about how I broke my DJI Pocket 3 camera and then fixed it again. And I just wanted to share this with you just in case you have a similar problem with your DJI Osmo Pocket 3 camera. And the problem was really simple. Usually when you start the Pocket 3, if you've got one, you know this. When you turn it on, the gimbal flips up and points in the direction you've set it to. So either if you've got the setting to set it in the last position that you had it in or if you prefer it to point forward or point towards you, that's what it does when you start it up. Except mine very suddenly stopped doing that. I think I have some footage here. It's just when you turn it on, it just stays in portrait mode and says initializing gimbal. Gimbal protection on. Oh dear, I think it's lost. When you turn the camera on, the camera part, the top of the gimbal, instead of flipping into position, it would just kind of it would either be floppy and point in a diagonal direction or it would point in a portrait orientation like this, which is no good because I've I've actually set the camera to shoot landscape only. So, I didn't know why it was doing that. And also when I went to turn off the camera, it wouldn't lock that gimbal back into position. So if I turn it off, I'm hoping it will now properly shut it down. Oh no, it's not.
I think it's damaged. I think I've damaged it. Sorry. Doesn't work. It does, but some for some reason it's not snapping back into when it goes into shutdown mode. It doesn't just close all the way. It just kind of almost made it there, but not quite. What it should look like is this. You turn it off and clunk clunk. It just folds neatly into itself.
I bent my wookie!
I bent my gimbal. It was either because I didn't keep it in its lovely protective case that it comes with. I have a frame that does actually play nicely with the DJI case. So, it sits snugly and it stays clear of the case, which is a really lovely touch by DJI to have that. So, thank you. But I just I just go uh stick it in my bag, stick it in my pockets, you know, like the name implies. That not a good idea, I know, but uh I did it. It might have been that or it might have been this this shot that I'm getting here. Let's wait for it. Cue the fool. I I've never seen this before. I didn't know we we he had it. It's Oh, no. Well, that's irony, isn't it? Yeah. The magnetic stand wasn't quite as magnetic as I hoped it would be. So, it did take quite a fall. And but this started I think this had not been working great before that incident as well. So it could have been one or the other. Now I have form with delicate DJI pocket cameras. I have tested them in the rain. This was the pocket one that I was testing in the rain and it survived. It It was a lot more rugged than I thought it would be. I even dropped it on a train station platform and made a video about how I put it back together again because the whole housing just fell apart and I managed to push that together again and rescued it. I just didn't know if I if this was a goner. I didn't know if I could fix this thing. I just thought, well, that's it. I've just I've got a microphone now, which is great, the DJI Mic 2, which I absolutely love. And I just thought, well, maybe I'll just write off the camera. Um, that's just how it is. That's just how gimbal cameras are. I don't know what made me think of this, but I just wanted to try one last time. And I actually did this on camera. I was at this point completely convinced this Pocket 3 was dead, unless I sent it off for repairs, and I'm sure the price of that would not be as compelling as just waiting for another brand new camera. So, I had a look at it, and I got a a toothbrush at first to try and clean out the mechanism of the gimbal. That didn't really do anything. But by doing that, it meant that I looked really super closely at the the gimbal. So, it goes all the way around, it's really free and easy. And then, but on this way round, there's some resistance there. Like, it jams when it's here. In this position, you have to really push it hard. So, it can't move freely into that position. Just something there. That's with the magnet. It's like the magnet is maybe out of alignment. It looks like it might be bent. So maybe this, you can see the scrape mark here. Maybe it's just ever so slightly out of alignment. I noticed that there was a kind of a scratch and it was as if the gimbal head couldn't make it past a certain point to fold itself up, which would mean that that would probably this be the same reason why it wasn't clicking into place when I started the camera up. So then I got the idea of well it just doesn't look like it's it's going past a particular point. So what if I just try and force it by brute force actually bend the head that turns this section here. What if I were to push it upwards so that this part would actually clear the arm? That's what seemed to be the problem. So I I bent it. I started bending it. I started really forcing it to bend it back the right way, which could have gone all kinds of shades of wrong, but luckily I think I've got it on footage here. So, I'm actually applying pressure to see if I can bend it the other way. So, that's clear. I did actually manage to bend it back the right way. Obviously, don't take any of this as advice, but if you have the problem where your Pocket 3 isn't starting up properly and it's just staying in portrait orientation and it's not going past a certain point, it might be that it's been bent ever so slightly crucially past the point where the head can clear the arm. Let's try that. So, I fold it up. See what happens now. Oh, that works. So, it's just brute force, right? What happens if I turn it off?
Will it fold up, right?
It's back.
Okay. So, just it was just bent ever so slightly. It might have been where it was in my pocket. So, if I turn it on again, that's it. Oh my goodness. So, it was as simple as that. Yeah, it folds up. Now, the problem was This was bent ever so slightly like less than a millimetre, less than half a millimetre the wrong way. So yeah, brute force. That's my that's my tip for the DJI Pocket 3. It's brought my camera back from the grave. So grateful. Obviously, from now on, I'm I'm probably not going to use the the magnetism quite so much. And uh I'm going to use my case all the time. And I'm probably going to buy the DJI Osmo Nano camera. And I'll probably be talking about that a lot on this channel. So if I do, I'll put that down in the description because at least you can stick it on things magnetically. And if it does fall down, I think it's a bit more robust than this thing, which I love, but it's so delicate. It's so delicate. I wouldn't be able to shoot this video if it were raining, for instance. Anyway, let me know if you've had this problem with your DJI Pocket 3. Uh, say hi down in the comments below. It' be lovely to hear from you. And good luck with rescuing your DJI Pocket 3. Here are all my other DJI Pocket 3 videos. And something else that YouTube knows that you want to be watching
Come with me on my London bike ride commute using the DJI Osmo Pocket 3 mounted to Ulanzi Falcam backpack clip, paired with the DJI Mic 2 wireless microphone. In this real-world test, I cycle from Waterloo over Blackfriars Bridge and through Smithfield to Barbican, filming at 4K 24fps with POV footage. I’ll show you how the Pocket 3 performs in the wild — including my personal setup tips, poor framing, and how it handles the chaos of cycling in London. If you're considering using the DJI Pocket 3 for vlogging or cycle and travel POV content, this video gives you a clear look at sound, stability, and framing in action.
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hello welcome back to the channel this is slightly unusual video this is to add to my videos all about this the DJI Osmo Pocket 3 i'm recording this on my selfie screen on my phone so the picture is going to be awful but I wanted you to see the rig up that I have today just to test out i've got uh an Ulanzi Falcam uh backpack clip and a FlyMile cage - magnetic mount cage for the DJI Pocket 3 and I'm using the uh DJI Mimo app or is it Mimo app i can never get it right and I'm using that to to frame it up cuz obviously I can't see uh what the camera can see got it i'm going to give you a a point of view shoot just to show you how this backpack clip can help sorry I've got loud trains behind me wow i'm running the Pocket 3 at 4K and 24 frames per second just to give it a little cinematic look and I'm using the Santander Cycle Hire ebike the electric bike that's what we're going to be using today and I just wanted to show you what kind of footage you can get from this camera um I've also tucked under here I got the creator combo so under here is the DJI Mic 2 so I'm hoping that I'm using that as uh as the sound that you can hear now but it's a bit strange because this is 30 frames per second this is 24 frames per second this probably doesn't look great this is the shot that we want to be seeing uh I'm going to stop my phone now so I've used the quick release button touch the screen i just used the quick release button here to release the the plate that is stuck to the flymile magnetic mount and that means I can take it on and off easily from this backpack clip all this video is going to be is sights and sounds from the DJI Pocket 3 i can now uh clip you on and take you along for the ride there's like a plate on the back it's not very straight is it i'm not doing it very tight that could be interesting and it just slots onto this backpack clip i'm trying to do it while I'm holding the phone so when I'm in London I'm working in London at the moment and I'm using these uh Santander bikes that more commonly known to older people like me as Boris bikes the blue London bikes whoa and you pay extra for the uh for the electric so I thought I'd give you a better ride a better ride along
experience move this down we'll go on to the cycle lane here we're just behind Southwark station uh near Waterloo i come into Waterloo never mind there's a nice uh docking station behind the Southwark tube station there and this looks a bit quiet it's usually really busy but I think the traffic lights bunch the cyclists together so when we get a bunch approaching I'll probably go
quiet but this is the sound quality i'm shooting at 4K and 24 frames per second i can see on the DJI app I can see the shot that I'm getting and I've got the I've got the screen turned off oh it's looking a bit low isn't it let's Let's tilt it up a bit i think that's looking a bit low i'm going to use the joystick just to push it up a bit that's better let's try something like that probably just missed the traffic lights there yeah I'm going really fast
[Music]
yeah I've set it so the monitor screen turns off after 15 seconds uh so while I'm wearing it um it looks like it's switched
off going to go over Blackfriars Bridge now there's about 30 bikes behind me
[Music]
the red light coming up oh it's gone
green trying to avoid the iron furniture in the road it can sometimes throw you off
and the Blackfriars Bridge looking beautiful this morning i won't lift the camera up i've got a view of the city on my right hand side and River Thames on my left going down to Big Ben the London Eye coming up to Unilever's headquarters Blackfriars Station on the
right i've got the uh fluffy windshield on the wireless mic
get some aggressive uh bike riding we'll see some of that this morning I think just trying to hold a steady course not hit anything in the road take it easy just want to get there in one piece i want the camera to get there in one piece as well so we're coming up to Farringdon Street oh lights have turned
green over Ludgate
Circus i think we've got a diversion ahead as well so we held at some temporary traffic lights oh that's unfortunate [Music] the truck got held there we
go we'll come up to uh we'll come up Farringdon
Street we're being diverted onto the street from the cycle lane i think we'll have long waits here i let you enjoy the picture quality and sound quality might check the app
just see have 9% left so wonder if we should pause it let's see if we can Let's see how long it lasts started at about
60% i don't know if it's going to last the whole journey it might cut
out i didn't realize quite how much more the 4K uses i did the same journey yesterday and it took 60% of the battery but that was at 1080p
here we go
this some building work on the left hand side here i don't know if the app used it you know connecting to the camera might have uh used some battery on the camera to feed the footage to my phone we'll go back onto the cycle lane here i [Music]
think all the Lycra Larries in black are uh choosing not to use the cycle
lane why would we want to use this gorgeous and we're going to turn right here to go past Smithfield Meat Market currently being redeveloped into the Museum of
London wonder if I can unclip
it that doesn't feel Oh dear hang on oh no my plate's gone loose do not want this to fall off 600 quid worth of
camera see if we can take it off over here i've got a two-stage right hand turn here so I'll stop here i'm just going to check the the
plate so it's easy to it's easy to release the plates sorry just the the plate that's on the back that attaches it to the backpack clip has come loose probably should have tightened it with a coin or something but put it back on here we go oh give you an interesting shot cuz it's gone green i might pull in over here do not want to drop this [Music] let's pull
in whoa so I don't know how much battery I've got left let's have a look oh is this 62% oh maybe it's the microphone battery that's gone okay so on 62% oh we got ages we're good let's go back onto the back
clip let's try that okay so I'm getting a battery warning on the Mimo app screen but I think that might actually be be for the
microphone so actually the battery is really good on the Pocket 3 even at 4K i've got mixed up i started at 70% got some building work in the background started off at 70% and it's only at 63% now after all that filming about 15 minutes of
filming that's really good news what I'll do then I'll probably go all the way to Barbican i was going to drop it off here oh please don't please don't walk in front of me on the red light there you go
i think the camera might be a bit low let's see if I can adjust it while I'm while I'm moving i can see it pointing down take it up a bit there we go it's quite easy to adjust the camera with the the 5D joystick push it all the way up here we go oh that's a bit too high just doing it by eye there we
[Music] go so that was
Smithfield that might be a bit high should I tilt it down a little just go
there difficult to
charge thought I heard a bike behind me and here we are at Aldersgate i'm going to cross the road oh look completely empty docking station this is my I think my favourite station in London cuz it's right by where I'm working and it's always empty absolutely
brilliant i'm going to just cycle to the central reservation and bunny hop over hey
And we'll dock it
here there we go then I undock the
camera hang on come back to me that was a lot easier than I thought it would be so yeah i don't know what I was doing with the battery i think the um I think what I could see on the app was a warning light for the uh the microphone battery we're now at 59% i think I think that worked really well what do you think i I'm not sure I framed it correctly um but I just wanted to give you a sense of how the footage looks using a backpack clip in a cycling urban cycling situation so what do you think would you use the DJI Pocket 3 in this kind of situation you thinking about getting a backpack clip i'm not a photographer so I these are usually used by photographers to uh hold their camera while they're walking around so to actually use it as a mount for cycling and a bug it's something I've it's something that I've always wanted to do and I I don't know i haven't seen the results yet but I think I've got a sense this this might actually work for me for my uh cycle vlogs thanks for letting me know what you think in the comments below and thank you for hitting the thumbs up or the subscribe button it really helps me to keep this channel going and right here is what YouTube knows you want to be watching next i'm out of breath
Is the DJI Osmo Pocket 3 the best pocket camera for vlogging? In this video, I take the Pocket 3 out for its very first real-world test review - commuting to work through London in the RAIN. From low-light shots to bike-mounted footage, I share my honest first impressions of the DJI Pocket 3 with the DJI Mic 2 wireless microphone, plus the FlyMile magnetic mount and cage setup for hands-free filming. This compact 4K vlogging camera could change the way I film YouTube videos... but how well does it handle motion, weather, audio, and battery life? I share the good, the bad, and the soggy. Perfect reviews if you're considering the Osmo Pocket 3 for daily vlogging, travel filmmaking, or content creation on the go.
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It is obscene-o'clock. It is... checking my watch... 10 past 6.
See this? Right, so that right there—this is the problem that I've got with... there we go... with the Osmo Pocket 3.
It is 6:10. My train leaves in about 7 minutes just up the hill here, and this is the first time that I'm using the DJI Pocket 3, and it's—it's like I've never stopped using the Pocket 1. It's so similar in every way.
I'm not using the external mic at the moment, just to see how this sounds, but I have about 4 minutes to run up this road, make the train. Let's film some of this.
There's a light drizzle, so I don't know how the camera's going to cope with rain. Ah, but I feel very comfortable holding this—holding this out in public while there's no one around.
Let's go film some trains.
I like going to the end of the train. Don't know why. It's got first class up there. I think I'll stay in this carriage.
Yeah, that's not good.
[Music]
That could have been an expensive mistake. I—I don't know if I was recording then, but I dropped the camera for the first time.
So just using this for 10 minutes, I already like that it's small and you can hold it. I love the wireless microphone. I don't have to speak that loudly, and I can have the camera away from me and still speak to you as closely as this.
The next station is...
What is challenging is that—I'm really glad I've got this magnetic mount—because you can't put the Osmo Pocket down. I mean, you have the screwed tripod, but it's not that easy to just put the small camera down, so having this frame on it is good.
It makes it more bulky though, and it's a metal cage—which I really prefer. You can get plastic ones, but it's a bit heavier. It's quite a lot heavier.
On 6:10. We'll sort it. See it, say it, sort it.
So we're here at Waterloo. It's—it's raining. That might be good for the video because I was going to ride the bike and I haven't got my clip. I'm just going to get a backpack clip. It's on its way from China but it's not here yet.
What I can do is clip the Pocket 3 to my backpack like this, and then you get a POV shot of my cycling. I'm terrified of doing that because I've managed to smash my Action 2 three times now. So the thought of putting a £600 camera just wobbling around on my front while I'm cycling on a Boris bike doesn't fill me with excitement.
What I am really happy about with the Pocket 3 is that I've managed to finally get the lanyard to work. I have no idea how you thread a lanyard on this thing—it's just pure luck, you just gotta force it through. But it does feel good that I've got some kind of strap, slightly protects against me dropping it or it being snatched or something.
How do I get now to Barbican if I'm not going to ride the bike? I'll see if I can get some walking shots. Some of those Casey Neistat shots where I put the camera down and I walk past, as if—as if you're observing me from a distance.
I've got to do it in a way where the camera doesn't get rained on, and the camera doesn't get stolen.
Something else that's tricky with this is that—I should hold it up here. And it feels so unnatural to hold the camera this high, but it looks better. It looks better like this, I think, than uh—up my nose like this.
Whoa. This is heavy rain. So here's the challenge: will my Pocket 3 cope on its first day in somewhat heavy rain? I don't think it's coming across on camera quite how wet it is. Probably see it on my glasses.
I don't feel too self-conscious—partly 'cause I'm in London, and I just look like a tourist. I think I'm not dressed like one—they'd be more waterproof.
Let's cross the road. And even now, I'm not using the lanyard. I'm going to drop this—I know it.
Okay, I've got both cameras running. Here's a test: I'm going to try and put the Pocket 3 on this mag mount—magnetic mount—onto the flagpole thing here.
It works. Oh my god. I don't like my $700... $600 camera just on there.
But I've set the monitor to go off—to turn itself off. I don't know if it will. I'll just wait for it. I'll just get this shot.
Here we go. It feels really weird to just walk away from a camera. Here we go.
It survived. The Royal Festival Hall. We'll see how that shot comes out.
But this cage—so I'm raving about the camera—but I think this magnetic cage, this magnetic mount from FlyMile, I think this has changed everything for me. I just need some kind of protective weather hood for it.
There's always one thing that you haven't got, isn't there?
This has nothing to do with the camera at all, but I've just noticed—my shoe is just falling apart. It's completely given up. I love these shoes. Oh man. I'll do a shoe review next.
So we used to work here. This was—this is appropriate for the camera—this used to be London Weekend Television, and they've just—with the ITV Studios—and they've just completely demolished it in the last two weeks.
It's so weird seeing this gap here now.
Here's why it's relevant though: I always wanted to work there, and I did get to work there.
But when I was growing up, cameras looked like this. They were huge, massive things on big pedestals. If I told my 15-year-old self that I would be here now holding a broadcast quality camera in my—in one hand, just walking down the street, that I can put in my pocket and put footage from it across the world for free—forever—so that people could watch that footage on a mobile device in their pockets...
My tiny head would have exploded.
What a time to be living in. And I think we sometimes get caught up—so this is me testing the camera—but I think we get caught up in the nonsense, the fear, when this technology is available to us right now.
And I think it's why I run this channel. I just—I just want to remind myself, and if I can help someone else along the way, that this technology is available to us at relatively low cost.
I mean, it's not like the £1 million those big TV cameras cost—and yet something's stopping us from using it.
So I think I'm probably on a new camera high—a new camera buzz high. It's kind of special that we can do this.
Okay, I've caved. I'm going to get on a bike so I don't have to walk so much. Even though I've got a broken shoe—it's probably because I've got a broken shoe. Don't be walking in the rain.
I'm going to try and get to work now as quickly as possible on my electric bike.
I don't know—I don't think I can do filming on this. There's nothing metal that I can attach this to.
When I get my new backpack clip, I think that will work.
But I—I'm going to try and do some filming while I'm cycling. Here's some footage that I managed to get later on in the journey, but I'll—I'll see if I can get you a couple of shots, and then we'll dock this bike and sum up what my first day is like on this camera.
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Docked. So that wasn't terrifying at all!
I did manage to get that good shot on Blackfriars Bridge, so I'm really pleased with that.
This—this shoe is really not good. Let's see if I can show you.
But that is pretty much my first day with the DJI Osmo Pocket 3.
What do you think?
I wanted to put this out there just in case this footage helps you decide whether or not this is a thing for you.
For me, just walking around—travel vlogs or footage where you are driving around or walking around somewhere—I think it's great. It really, really works.
I've—I’ve put some of the downsides in this video, but I think the greatest upside for me is having this wireless microphone, because it means I can speak at this level.
If you can hear me—I’ll check in the edit—but it means you can speak at this level so I don't feel like I'm attracting too much attention to myself.
I could be on some kind of phone call with my weird phone that I'm holding at arm’s length.
But if you have any comments—what do you think? Are you going to get this camera? Is that—is that why you're watching this video?
Or maybe you've got one already and use it differently—have different accessories?
I'll put the accessories I'm using down in the description.
Just walking past Smithfield Meat Market now—what's left of it now.
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