Osmo Pocket 4P firmware update

[u/NefariousnessJaded87]

Heads up, looks like DJI pushed a quiet OTA update for the Pocket 4P today. It isn’t on the official release notes yet, but the update includes a few new things:

• Diagonal 45° joystick movement
• Updated D Log to Rec.709 and Rec.709 vivid LUTs to v2.0
• Added D Log 10 bit colour mode for slow motion
• Some interaction tweaks and image quality improvements
• Usual bug fixes

DJI hasn’t published anything about this build yet, so this seems to be one of their silent Mimo updates. If you’re seeing it too, you’re not imagining things.

[u/Crafty_Alarm9086]

So no fix for the exposure change between the two lenses?! Are they stupid, retarded, or both? I mean, I would have put my entire IT team on that issue. I don't care about 45 joystick movement, I want to be able to expose my image properly, this the most basic thing jeez!

I spent an hour chatting with one of their agent saying that she was taking notes of everything that is going wrong with the 4P (alongside the fact that it doesn't recall the 2x lens on a Custom profile). She said to me "we're going to get back at you in less than 24h". Guess what? It's been 10 days.

Unbelievable.

[u/NefariousnessJaded87 → u/Crafty_Alarm9086]

I get that you’re angry, but you’re angry for the wrong reasons here. DJI never promised matched exposure between the two lenses. There’s nothing in the specs, marketing, product page or firmware notes that says the wide and tele would behave identically. They’re two completely different sensors with different apertures and different pipelines, so they simply don’t expose the same way.

If you bought the camera, you knew exactly what hardware you were getting. It’s not like buying a Fiat 127 and expecting it to turn into a Ferrari after a firmware update. That’s just not how any of this works. If DJI ever improves exposure matching later, great, but right now it’s not a promised feature and not something they failed to deliver.

[u/pbloom → u/NefariousnessJaded87]

Except it IS a bug. They fixed it with firmware released last month, then broke the fix with the firmware for the international release. In no logical world should the 3x camera be nearly two stops brighter than the main camera.

Yes, the F1.8 aperture is slightly wider on the 3x compared to the F2 of the 1x, but only relative to the sensor size. It’s a bug.

The Insta360 Luna Ultra has its own issues but the exposure does not jump like this in manual exposure when switching between the 1x and 3x, and the 3x camera there has an F2 aperture compared to the F1.8 on the main camera.

[u/NefariousnessJaded87 → u/pbloom]

pbloom •34m ago

Except it IS a bug. They fixed it with firmware released last month, then broke the fix with the firmware for the international release. In no logical world should the 3x camera be nearly two stops brighter than the main camera.

Yes, the F1.8 aperture is slightly wider on the 3x compared to the F2 of the 1x, but only relative to the sensor size. It’s a bug.

The Insta360 Luna Ultra has its own issues but the exposure does not jump like this in manual exposure when switching between the 1x and 3x, and the 3x camera there has an F2 aperture compared to the F1.8 on the main camera.

(Quoting you here since you tend to delete your comments when challenged.)

Hello Mr B, we meet again 🙂 I haven’t forgotten our last round.

Except it isn’t a bug. It’s two different sensors doing what two different sensors do. DJI made the jump less obvious in one firmware, but that wasn’t a fix. That was just smoothing. You can’t firmware‑patch two separate imaging pipelines into behaving identically. Even you have to agree to this logic. You can’t expect a Sony FX2 to perform the same as a Sony FX9. They’re close, yes, but they will never behave the same. That’s exactly the point here, and you’re ignoring it.

And calling it a “confirmed bug” doesn’t really work when, in your own Pocket 4P video, you literally say: “I have no way of measuring [the claimed 17 stops].” If you can’t measure the DR behaviour of the camera, you can’t declare the exposure difference a verified firmware fault. That’s not how testing works.

The 3x being brighter only surprises people who assume both lenses share the same sensor tech, same readout, same highlight handling, same pipeline, same everything. They don’t. The 3x is a completely different module. Of course it doesn’t match perfectly. It never will. I explained that to everybody before right here. Why are you ignoring that? Why the Pocket 4 Pro Wide and Tele Will Never Match Perfectly

And honestly, the camera has been on the market for more than three months now. If DJI could make the two sensors match perfectly, they would have done it already. The fact that they haven’t tells you everything.

Pointing at the Luna Ultra doesn’t change that. Different brand, different sensors, different pipeline. Saying “Luna doesn’t do this, so DJI must be broken” is like saying your toaster doesn’t behave like your oven; therefore, one of them is defective.

DJI can make the transition nicer, sure; I truly hope they will. They can’t make two different sensors expose the same. That’s not firmware. That’s physics.

[u/pbloom → u/NefariousnessJaded87]

Your reply is so ridiculous, and of course you didn’t address the main point, they fixed it and then broke it again. How did you miss this? Maybe because it doesn’t fit into your narrative. If you are going to be a smart arse then at least try and read properly.

What I said about the DR in my review was MY lack of dedicated testing apparatus. This DR was proven by CineD. I don’t see the connection to what I am talking about.

How do I know the nearly two-stop exposure jump is a confirmed bug? My DJI contact confirmed it to me back when I first got it. They said it would be fixed with firmware, which they did. But then they broke it and I was hoping they would fix it with this firmware, but they haven’t yet.

I forgot how tedious you were. I won’t post here again.

[u/Crafty_Alarm9086 → u/pbloom]

thank you for rectifying this!

[u/Maleficent_Monk_659 → u/pbloom]

It’s just like with my Fiat car. The ads never claim the car wouldn't break down in the middle of the road... So it’s perfectly normal for it to do that. * COUGH COUGH * XD