DJI Osmo Pocket 4 Accessories: What Jake Sloan Actually Uses

The Pocket 4 and Pocket 4P ship with almost nothing in the box that protects them, powers them longer, or gets the most out of their sensors. This guide is the accessory list Jake Sloan actually shoots with, from his hands-on rundown, in the order a new owner should buy things.

Protect the gimbal and screen first

The kit bag some Pocket 4 bundles include holds accessories nicely and protects nothing. The first purchase is a clamp-on protective cover that wraps the gimbal, camera, and front screen so the Pocket can ride loose in a backpack. Jake’s took a while to find and adds barely any bulk. Pair it with a cheap glass screen protector: invisible in use, and it saves the screen from the one drop that lands just wrong.

The magnetic Arca-Swiss base that does everything

The included mini tripod works, but the K&F Concept base replaces three mounts at once: it is an Arca-Swiss plate that clips straight into a regular tripod clamp, it is magnetic enough to stick the camera to anything metal, and it has its own legs and hook built in. One small caveat from real use: the magnet grips hard enough that pulling it off takes real effort while it is new.

ND filters, because D-Log deserves them

If you bought a Pocket 4P for D-Log 2, shooting it without ND filters wastes the reason you bought it. Jake uses Freewell’s filter sets, sent to him by the company, and reaches for them constantly: the everyday pack covers general video and is the right starting point, the bigger kit adds a circular polarizer, a light-pollution filter, an ND1000 and Glow Mist for hyperlapses and night city work, and the ND/PL combination filter earns its place when you shoot around water or through car windows, where controlling reflections decides the shot.

The wide-angle lens and a real microphone

The 4P’s main camera is 20mm, which tightens up fast when you hold the camera at arm’s length and talk to it. The wide-angle lens comes bundled in some combos and is worth buying if yours skipped it: the shot breathes, and walk-and-talk framing stops feeling cramped.

Audio matters more. The Pocket 4 pairs with the DJI Mic Mini, Mic Mini 2 and Mic Mini 2S, and the Mic 3, plus the Mic 2 for lapel setups, and it records two transmitters at once for two-person pieces. Clean audio in wind is the difference between viewers staying and leaving, which makes a wireless mic the highest-value accessory on this page.

Batteries: the handle works, the power bank wins

The Pocket 3 battery handle fits the Pocket 4, so upgraders already own a spare-power option. Jake prefers a SmallRig battery that behaves like a USB power bank: it reports no charge level of its own, it just dumps power into the camera. His routine is to plug the Pocket in while driving between locations, and quick charging has it at 80 to 90% or full by arrival.

Grading, car rigs, and what comes next

Every Pocket 4 and 4P review and comparison Jake has published was graded with the Gamut.io LUTs for D-Log and D-Log 2, which he recommends without hedging for natural skin tones. For rolling shots, the Movmax Pocket Controller plus the Movmax Blade Arm fourth-axis arm turned the 4P into his car-rig camera (he later bought a Tilta Hydra Alien Mini for a few refinements), and an iFootage Shark Slider Pico Pro that interfaces with the Pocket’s gimbal is next in his testing queue, along with an untested underwater case.

His original video rundown lives in our news coverage, and the buying context sits next door: the Pocket 4P vs Pocket 4 comparison if you have not picked a model, the Pocket 4P vs Insta360 Luna Ultra head-to-head if you are cross-shopping brands, and the US availability tracker, because DJI still does not sell either Pocket 4 in the United States.

Based on Jake Sloan’s hands-on testing: watch the full video, subscribe to the Jake Sloan YouTube channel, and find more of his work on his DroneXL author page.