The primary wide-angle camera on the Pocket 4P features a new 1-inch 4K sensor paired with a 20mm-equivalent focal length f/2.0 lens that offers 17-stops of dynamic range. This is a small but useful bump compared to the cheaper Pocket 4’s 14-stop range when capturing footage using DJI’s D-Log 2 color profile. The Pocket 4P’s secondary camera combines a much smaller 1/1.28-inch sensor with a 60mm-equivalent f/1.8 telephoto lens with 3X optical zoom, 6X lossless zoom using sensor cropping, and 12X zoom using digital enhancements.
The Luna Ultra’s primary camera has a 1-inch 8K sensor and a secondary telephoto camera with similar zoom capabilities, but a 1/1.3-inch sensor that’s slightly smaller than the one used by the Pocket 4P. While the Luna Ultra does have an advantage when it comes to overall resolution (allowing more freedom in post production when it comes to cropping or stabilizing footage) it can only capture 8K footage at 30fps and 4K footage at up to 120fps. The Pocket 4P is limited to 4K, but up to 240fps using its primary camera, potentially making it a better choice for capturing slow-motion footage. Both devices can capture still images up to 37-megapixel.
DJI includes 103GB of built-in storage with the Pocket 4P, which is more than double the 47GB of storage included with the Luna Ultra. You can expand the 4P’s storage with a microSD card, but with 103GB you can capture more than 200 minutes of 4K/60fps footage, so an additional card may not be needed.
Both devices are almost identical in weight without accessories, with the Pocket 4P weighing 230 grams, and the lightest version of the Luna Ultra weighing 233 grams. They each also offer advanced tracking capabilities including the ability to reframe and zoom to keep individuals or groups of people in shot, but DJI has been refining the tracking capabilities of its still cameras for the past decade, and the Pocket 4P comes with its latest ActiveTrack/Smart Follow 8.0 technology.
The most innovative feature of Insta360’s Luna Ultra is its touchscreen and controls that can be removed and used as a wireless remote with livestream preview. The entry-level version of the Pocket 4P can’t do this, but DJI is offering the camera in a pricier ¥4299 ($636) “Vlog Kit” bundle that includes the wireless Osmo FrameTap Viewfinder Remote that was introduced with the Osmo Mobile 8 Pro smartphone gimbal last April. Like the Luna Ultra’s remote, the FrameTap includes a touchscreen for choosing where the camera should focus and track plus controls for manually controlling the camera and recording.
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