If you just picked up the DJI Osmo Pocket 4 and you want to protect the camera, take your footage to the next level, or just in general make it easier to use, I have a few accessories that I want to show you. Now, some of these accessories were sent to me, and some of them I purchased myself — I’ll try to let you know which ones are which. And if you’re interested in picking any of these up, there are affiliate links down in the description of my video. They don’t cost you anything extra, but they do help me out.

Protect the Gimbal and Screen First

Depending on which kit you get with the Pocket 4, you might get a little bag, which is actually really nice and does a good job of holding all your accessories, but it doesn’t necessarily protect the camera and the gimbal. That’s where a protective cover comes in. This is something I purchased off Amazon, and it does exactly what you need it to do, which is protect the Pocket’s gimbal, camera, and front screen if you’re just going to throw it in your camera bag. It clamps on, comes around the back, and snaps into place, keeping the screen and buttons safe and the camera nice and secure, so you can just toss it in your bag or backpack. It took me a while to find, but I’m definitely glad I did. It doesn’t add much size or bulk to the camera, but it gives you a nice way to protect it, which is important.

Sort of related to that, but definitely something you’re going to want to pick up, is a screen protector. I’ve got mine on and you can’t really tell it’s there. It’s just a little piece of glass, but it will save your screen if you drop this thing in just the right way. Super cheap, but very, very highly recommended.

A Magnetic Arca-Swiss Base That Does Everything

You get a little tripod and adapter with the Pocket 4 no matter which package you buy, but if you want a little more versatility, there’s this K&F Concept base, which is super cool. Not only is it an Arca-Swiss plate — so if you use a regular tripod, you can clip it straight into your Arca-Swiss clamp — but it’s also magnetic, so you can stick it to anything metal. This is something I purchased, and pulling it off does take a little work because it’s new.

It also has a little tripod built in, so if you want to set your Pocket 4 somewhere and let it just sit, you can do that. You can also raise a little piece that lets you hook it on a fence or a bookshelf if you want to. This is probably one of the most versatile little Pocket 4 base adapters I’ve found. Really nice and, like I said, very highly recommended.

ND Filters for the Highest Quality Footage

Something I picked up and have been using a lot more than I thought I would: if you want the highest quality footage from your Pocket 4P — and because it has D-Log 2 and D-Log, why wouldn’t you want the highest quality footage you can get out of it? — you’re going to want ND filters. The camera is actually pretty dang incredible. These were sent to me by Freewell, and I use them a ton. The everyday pack is excellent. It has a lot of filters that you would need for pretty much anything, and if you’re going to shoot a lot of general video, that’s where I would start.

If you want to step up and do other things like time lapses, hyperlapses, or car rig work, then I would get the kit that includes a CPL, the light pollution reduction filter, the ND1000, and the Glow Mist filter. The ND1000 is super useful for time lapses or hyperlapses because it allows you to slow your shutter speed way down and blur lots of motion. The mist filter is super cool if you’re shooting around a lot of strong light sources, like in a city — it softens the light sources and makes them bloom a little bit for a really cool effect.

Freewell also makes a combination polarizer and ND filter, which is useful more for photography. You can control the contrast in the sky and in the leaves, and you can keep reflections off windows — so if you’re shooting through a car window or something, polarizers are very important for that. If you’re doing more photography, or you’re really concerned about reflections because you shoot a lot around water, that ND and polarizer combination is worth considering.

The Wide-Angle Lens for Walk-and-Talk

The main camera on the Pocket 4P is 20mm, and that’s great for a lot of things. But if you’re going to do a lot of shooting where you’re holding the camera, walking, and talking to it, you’re probably going to want the wide-angle lens. You might get it depending on the combination you buy, but if you don’t, I would highly recommend it. It makes the shot just a little bit wider, a little bit easier to walk and talk to the camera without feeling quite so tight, and it shows off a lot more around you.

A Microphone Makes People Stick Around

On that note, if you’re walking and talking to camera a lot, or you’re vlogging a lot, then you’re going to want a microphone. External mics give you a lot cleaner audio, they will really help you out when it’s windy, and you can connect up to two mics to this camera — so you could have two people talking directly to camera with really good, clean audio.

The nice thing is that the Pocket 4 works with the DJI Mic Mini, the Mic Mini 2 and Mic Mini 2S, and the DJI Mic 3, plus the DJI Mic 2 if you want to do a lapel setup. So you have a lot of options there. Having an external microphone will really help you get much cleaner, much better audio, which in turn will help people stick around and actually watch whatever you’re creating.

Batteries: The Handle Works, but This Power Bank Is Better

Battery life on the Pocket 4P is actually really good, but if you want longer battery life or you’re shooting longer days, the Pocket 3 battery handle will work with the Pocket 4. You can pick up the Pocket 4 battery handle in a lot of places, and that’ll be a good option as well.

But if you want a lot of battery life, this battery from SmallRig, which is something I purchased, is really great and gives you a ton more. It charges differently than the Pocket series batteries do — it works more like a USB power bank. The camera won’t tell you how much power is left in it, but it will just dump power into the Pocket 4 and recharge it. The way I’ve used it: when I’m going from location to location, I’ll plug the Pocket 4 into this battery, and by the time I get wherever I’m going — because the Pocket 4 and 4P have quick charge — it’ll be full, or at the very least up to 80 or 90%.

The LUTs I Grade All My Pocket Footage With

If you shoot in D-Log or D-Log 2, I use and highly recommend the Gamut.io LUTs for the DJI Pocket 4 and 4P. They are fantastic. That’s what I’ve color graded all of my Pocket 4 and 4P footage with in any of the reviews or comparisons I’ve done. They give you a really nice, natural-looking skin tone and just really nice colors. I can’t recommend them highly enough.

He sent me these early on when he was testing them out, and that’s how I was part of testing them for him. But then I loved them so much I went and bought them for my Mavic 4, my Air 3S, my Insta360 Luna — I bought them for just about every camera I have, because they are really fantastic-looking LUTs that give you great skin tones and great colors across the board. They also give you a couple of options between a slightly more toned-down look and a very bold look, so you can choose which one you want.

Car Rigs: The Pocket 4 Is a Fantastic Rolling Camera

I do have some other accessories that I haven’t tested yet — like an underwater case for the Pocket 4 and Pocket 4P that I bought, and I’ve got some ideas on how I’m going to try that out. But this one I have tested: the Movmax Pocket Controller, which works really well. If you do a lot of rolling stuff — car content, car rigs, anything like that — the Pocket 4P is actually a fantastic rig for it.

I’ve used the Movmax Blade Arm, the little bouncy fourth-axis arm, and it works really well — that’s what all of this footage was shot with. For myself, I then went and bought the Tilta Hydra Alien Mini, just because I like a few things about it a little bit better. But if you’re going to do any car content, I would highly recommend getting one of these arms along with the Movmax Pocket Controller system, because it works super well for filming car rigs.

The Pocket 4 — these little gimbal cameras, period — make a great car rig because they’re so fast and easy to set up, and they’re so unobtrusive that you can get away with filming in a lot of places where a huge car rig leaning out the side of a car would attract more attention than you want.

A Motorized Slider That Unlocks Something New

And I will have videos on this coming, but there’s one more: the iFootage Shark Slider Pico Pro. It gives you some really cool abilities to control not just left-and-right motion but also panning, and it interfaces with the Pocket to give you control over the gimbal. A whole video will be coming on this really soon, because it unlocks some really, really cool things you can do with your Pocket 4 or Pocket 4P camera. So stay tuned for that.

Let me know in the comments what accessories you use that I didn’t get to. As always, if you have questions, ask me in the comments, or you can join my live stream, which happens most Wednesday nights at 4:00 p.m. Alaska time, 8:00 p.m. Eastern. I’ve got to go out and film some more, because a video’s coming and it’s really cool.

This article was written based on Jake Sloan’s DJI Osmo Pocket 4 accessories video, published on his YouTube channel. You can find more of Jake’s coverage on his DroneXL author page.