ON A BIKE! DJI POCKET 3 test run with backpack clip and Mic 2...

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.

ON A BIKE! DJI POCKET 3 test run with backpack clip and Mic 2...



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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

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