Shadowing Practice: I Used the Osmo Pocket 4P for 100 Days - Learn English Speaking with Video

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I've been using the Osmo Pocket 4P for the past 100 days, and it's just become my go -to camera.

Now, a lot of you have watched my 30 -day review, and you've got questions, and you've been leaving them in the comments,

and I've been trying to answer them, but I think the best thing to do is just make another review video after 100 days,

and kind of just answer questions that you guys have left for me as I go.

And please let me know if you're on the fence about picking up the 4P, or if you've already picked one up,

and you're just getting to know it.

I'm always interested in knowing where people are on their journey.

Okay, so over the past 100 days, I've filmed cinematic B -roll, talking heads, vlogs, tracking shots, slow motion shots, product shots.

I've done a lot of photography.

I've done some wildlife shooting and I've shot in all different types of lighting environments.

Backlit scenes, harsh sunlight, golden hour, low light, indoor studio lighting, and some really dark nighttime spots also.

And I like to push this camera to its limit to see where it starts to break apart.

But I've used the one times camera, the three times.

I've gone all the way up to 12 times zoom.

And then also to help me get a baseline of how this camera performs, I versed it against the Osmo Pocket 3,

the Osmo Pocket 4, the iPhone 17

Pro, the iPhone 18

Pro, the Insta360 Luna Ultra, the Osmo Action 6, the Sony ZVE -10

Mark II, the Sony A6700, and the GoPro Mission 1 Pro.

And I'm trying to figure out which one I should do next.

Please let me know.

But this isn't like a first impression type of video.

This is something where I've actually used this almost every single day since I've owned it.

And with all that being said, there's still some stuff that frustrate me.

By the way, I bought this camera with my own money.

DJI is not sponsoring this video this is my own opinions also none of the shots

that you're going to see in this video were created using ai

they were all used with the osmo pocket 4p and also

while i'm at it

if you plan on picking this camera up i left free project files shots

that i got with this camera like dlog2 4k 120 just all the different shots

that i got in a project file

that you can download as you follow along and one more thing

if you do pick up the 4p

or you plan on picking up the 4p i made a full course

that takes you from setting it up from scratch to going out

and getting amazing cinematic shots with it along with different color luts to help you go out

and get the most out of this camera.

I'll leave links to those products in the description.

And I really don't want to paywall between you and learning your camera.

So if you're on a really tight budget, go ahead and email me and I'll send you out a pretty good discount code for the course.

All right, so that's what we're going to be covering 100 days with the 4P today on the Film Alliance.

All right, so using this camera almost every single day for the past 100 days,

every single time I pull up the footage on my computer, I'm very impressed.

It's rare that I look at shots from this camera and I feel let down.

I always feel let down when I look at something

that comes from like my smartphone and I'm using like the native camera.

I'll come home and be like, wow, that's pretty noisier.

The mid -tones are lifted.

But with this camera, it really does feel like a mirrorless camera shot.

The image quality is great.

It's got great stabilization.

I love it slow motion, being able to shoot in 4K up to 240 frames per second.

I definitely like this camera now more than I did when I made that first review.

But living with it every day and trying to shoot with it in real world situation has exposed some weak spots.

And I wanna talk about some of that stuff today in this video.

There's still no proper hard case.

The screen feels tiny and you could easily just drop this thing and break the gimbal head or the screen.

It's not like I can flip the screen around so I can protect the glass.

D -Log 2 is great, but it doesn't work on the three times camera.

And skin tones on the one times camera don't look too good.

That's why I always switch it over to three times camera and those are just a few of the negative things.

But even with that being said, the bigger sensor really performs outstanding in low light environments.

And being able to use the three times camera, which is its own separate sensor for talking heads,

really does take this camera to the next level rather than just shooting it at one times

and zooming in like you get with the Osmo Pocket 4.

Also, you can get really closeup shots with that three times camera as well.

It just is a great versatile camera for everyday shooting.

And truth be told, the 4P is beating out some of my bigger cameras when I'm walking out the door quickly.

mainly due to its image quality.

Also, its size.

It's so small.

Think about the form factor difference between a big mirrorless camera on a gimbal and this guy right here.

In most lighting conditions, you really won't be able to tell that big of a difference either.

It has internal storage built into it, so I like to add an SD card and film everything to that, and if it fills up,

then I use my internal storage as a backup.

And the battery has been plenty for me.

I have not found myself out in the field feeling like, oh, I ran out of battery pretty quickly.

Something I figured out rather recently was the one -times camera isn't actually 20 millimeters like they market it.

I think they market it as that.

It's really about 18 millimeters.

That gives you a little bit wider of a frame.

That's why I'm not a huge fan of doing talking heads at 18 millimeters

because it makes your face look small and the frame look too wide.

And because I'm in the United States, I did have to purchase this on eBay.

And if I drop it, I might be in trouble because I don't know how to get a warranty for it.

So now let's pause this video for a second so we can talk about the sponsor of this video, which is Neewer.

The Osmopogit 4P does not have a variable aperture or an adjustable aperture.

So the normal way to combat bright light is cranking up your shutter speed.

But when you do that, you're going to get a choppy and jittery type of look.

So in order to get natural motion blur, you have to set your shutter speed to double whatever your frame rate is.

So if I'm shooting in 24 frames per second, I'm going to want to set my frame rate to 1 over 50.

And if I go out and shoot with a shutter speed of 1 over 50 and it's super bright outside,

my entire shot's going to be completely blown out.

That's where ND filters come in.

This first set is what I grab the most.

I have an ND16, which I grab for cloudy days.

ND64 is when it's going to be pretty sunny out.

And ND256 is for harsh midday shooting, especially when I'm at the beach.

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There's also a circular polarizer in here that's going to cut down the reflections off of the water and the car windows.

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Then I have a second set, which is my run and gun kit.

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It's a variable ND filter from 2 to 32.

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So I just rotate it as the light changes instead of having to swap out the filters.

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It also comes with a CPO and a quarter black diffusion.

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That's going to soften highlights and give skin tones a more filmic type look.

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Both of them snap onto the glass and it stays nice and sharp.

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And the beautiful thing is the glass between both the top and bottom filters is the same exact glass.

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So if I shoot with the one times and the three times, when I get home, my colors are still going to match up.

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So if you want to maintain great looking colors and also have a nice looking motion blur without overexposing your shots,

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make sure to pick these guys up.

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I will leave a link to them in the description.

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I think one of the main things that I really wanted to get out of this camera,

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or at least test to see if it would work, is could I use this instead of something like a mirrorless camera?

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Could I get wide establishing shots, low angles, foreground movement, slow motion,

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walking shots, put it in places that I normally couldn't put like a mirrorless camera in?

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Really just using it as like a story -driven type of camera.

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And I think that's the biggest plus for me with this camera is there's just so much variety that you can do.

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You don't need different lenses or different cameras or different setups to get different shots.

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You can just use like this one camera and then get any shot

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that you can think of with the exception of anything

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that has to do with water or higher up

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because you don't want to get it stuck in a tree

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and it definitely makes just ordinary moments look way more polished

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and cinematic than

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if you were just to shoot

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it with your phone like this shot right here literally was just water coming out of a gutter

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but it looks so good in my opinion all right let's jump to the next chapter the

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so -called 60 millimeter equivalent

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or the three times camera might be my favorite feature on the pocket 4p it gives talking heads

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and portraits more flattering perspective it makes product shots

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and small details feel more intentional i'm able to get like macro type of shots like this acorn

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but the only downside is that the three times camera uses a smaller sensor

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so i would not use the three times camera

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if i was in a low light environment also you can't use d -log 2 with the three times camera

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so my work around if i plan on shooting in log

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and i'm going to be back and forth between one times

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and three times is just shooting in the D -Log 10 -bit.

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Yeah, it's not going to be as good as D -Log 2 when it comes to color grading,

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but it's still good enough because one of the major problems

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that I found myself having when I was shooting between D -Log 2

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and D -Log is when you get to post -production, you really don't know which clip is which.

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It's not labeled or anything, so you just kind of have to guess

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or you have to look at which one looks a little bit more like D -Log 2 compared to D -Log.

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It became a little bit of an issue.

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So my workaround is if you're going to shoot D -Log 2, stick with that the whole time.

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If you're going to shoot with D -Log, stick with that the whole time.

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You'll be able to use the one times and the three times camera.

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If you're shooting in D -Log 2, you're stuck to the one times camera.

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Now, I recently compared the Pocket 4P against the Luna Ultra in a very low light environment,

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and I was pretty shocked on how well both cameras perform.

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I'll leave that video in the description if you're interested.

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But the Pocket 4P does have a dedicated low light mode,

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and it can be useful when you want the camera to handle most of the settings automatically.

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Maybe you just want to focus on the composition or the story

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but personally i prefer to shoot my low light videos in the actual video mode

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and then switching the exposure over to manual

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it gives me more control on my iso my shutter speed

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i don't have to worry about the camera doing any in -body processing

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that i can't undo once i get to post -production

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i also feel like the footage looks a little bit more natural

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when i control it myself but overall if i was in a run

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and gun environment i would have no problem using the low

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light video mode the pocket 4p has definitely impressed me more than i originally expected when it comes to low light.

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All right, we talked a little bit about this earlier in the video, but the Pocket 4P gives you four main color profile options.

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Standard.

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Standard is going to give you that finished looking image straight out of camera with good contrast, some saturation, and natural looking colors,

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but you are not going to get the dynamic range that you would if you shot with D -Log, HDR 10 -bit, or D -Log 2.

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D -Log gives you a flatter 10 -bit image with more flexibility when it comes to color grading,

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and D -Log2 gives you even more flexibility or the most dynamic range, especially when you want to adjust your highlights or your shadows.

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But it also is going to require the most amount of work in post -production.

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That's one of the reasons why I created LUTs

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that you could just drag and drop right onto the footage without having to do any color grading at all.

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Now, the HDR 10 -bit.. is a little bit controversial

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because a lot of people like to use it

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and i've used it before and it looks fantastic however the only problem

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that i have with hdr is

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that you have to have an hdr monitor to review

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that footage back so you could shoot a lot of shots in hdr

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and then maybe send it to a friend or to a phone

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that doesn't have hdr processing

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and all of the shots are going to look overexposed as of the time of recording

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this video a lot of monitors are not hdr capable I learned that the hard way after a long day's shoot.

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So just keep that in mind if you decide to shoot in HDR.

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Know where your playback is going to be played back.

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I find myself shooting with the standard color profile 90 % of the time.

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Because it's just good enough.

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It doesn't look too oversaturated.

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Something like a phone.

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It doesn't look too digital.

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Something like I would get with a smaller sensor camera.

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D -Log and D -Log 2 definitely have their place.

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But I like to be more intentional when I come to shoot with those profiles rather than just turning to D -Log2,

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going out and filming with it.

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I found that when I'm shooting with D -Log or D -Log2, I like to have my exposure compensation set to about 0 .0.

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Now, I have had some people say in the comments that they like to overexpose their D -Log2 by plus 1 .7,

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but if you've had that experience, please let me know in the comments.

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Can it replace a phone or a mirrorless camera?

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100 % it could replace your phone.

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You just can't text or call people.

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And as far as a mirrorless camera, I mean, it really depends.

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If you're just doing travel videos or vlogging, YouTube videos, family moments, some photography,

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the Pocket 4P could absolutely replace your larger mirrorless camera.

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But there will always be a place for a professional mirrorless camera.

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The 12x zoom, it will not match what a telephoto lens gives you on a true mirrorless camera.

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And for high -end professional work, you're going to need interchangeable lenses.

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You're going to need to be able to replace the batteries on the fly

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you're gonna have sometimes in some cases need dual card slots

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external recording more control over your exposure control over your aperture

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so for convenience and everyday content it can replace a camera

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but when you need more flexibility and the best image quality

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and reliability then absolutely not

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so now after a hundred days would I still buy the

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pocket 4p 100 % yes without even thinking twice about it it's not a perfect camera

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I mentioned some of the things that I don't like about it.

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But if you're doing a lot of run and gun filming, the image quality is outstanding.

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100 % I would pick this guy up.

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I love using this camera with a BTS shooter who can

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get a lot of my behind the scenes type shooting where I don't have to use my phone anymore.

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Sometimes phone footage, the mid -tones get lifted up too much.

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You can tell that a digital plastic look, especially on skin tone.

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But this guy does a great job.

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I'm rarely disappointed with the image quality that I get out of this camera.

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If there's ever a time where the image

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that I shot doesn't look too good it's usually user error

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but if you want something that's always going to be with you

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that you can go out

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and get cinematic shots

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then I would definitely recommend picking one of these guys up

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let me know in the comments what you would like for

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me to verse against the off pocket 4p along with other videos

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that you would like to see me create on this particular camera thanks for watching

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I will see you in the next video

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This speaking lesson is built on the video “I Used the Osmo Pocket 4P for 100 Days”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: camera, shot, log, pocket, shoot. This video has 232 sentences and 2983 words to shadow. The speech runs for 13:03. The speaker talks fast, about 229 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 82% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.

Key vocabulary in this video

15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
pocket noun	/ˈpɑ.kɪt/	A bag stitched to an item of clothing, used for carrying small items.
tone noun	/ˈtəʊn/	A specific pitch.
footage noun	/ˈfʊtɪd͡ʒ/	An amount of film or tape that has been used to record something, or the content of the recording.
filter noun	/ˈfɪltɚ/	A device which separates a suspended, dissolved, or particulate matter from a fluid, solution, or other substance; any device that separates one substance from…
sensor noun	/ˈsɛn.sɚ/	A device or organ that detects certain external stimuli and responds in a distinctive manner.
exposure noun	/ɪkˈspəʊ.ʒə(ɹ)/	The condition of being exposed, uncovered, or unprotected.
lens noun	/lɛnz/	An object, usually made of glass, that focuses or defocuses the light that passes through it.
flexibility noun	/ˌflɛksɪˈbɪlɪti/	The quality of being flexible, whether physically or metaphorically.
zoom verb	/zuːm/	To move fast with a humming noise.
everyday adjective	/ˈɛvɹiˌdeɪ/	Appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions.
photography noun	/fəˈtɑ.ɡɹə.fi/	The art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces, and its digital counterpart.
monitor noun	/ˈmɑ.nɪ.tɚ/	Someone who watches over something; a person in charge of something or someone.
dynamic adjective	/daɪˈnæm.ɪk/	Changing; active; in motion.
highlight verb	/ˈhaɪˌlaɪt/	To make prominent; emphasize.
verse noun	/ˈvɝs/	A poetic form with regular meter and a fixed rhyme scheme.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Meaning
go out verb	To leave, especially a building.
pick up verb	To lift; to grasp and raise.
figure out verb	To come to understand; to discover or find a solution; to deduce.
get out of verb	To leave, exit or escape from; to become free of.
let down verb	To disappoint; to betray or fail somebody.
beat out verb	To sound a rhythm on a percussion instrument such as a drum.
blow out verb	To extinguish something, especially a flame, especially by means of a strong current of air or another gas.
break apart verb	To dismantle something into its base components.

Sentences worth repeating

Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:

I've done a lot of photography.
I'll leave links to those products in the description.
You just can't text or call people.

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

Structure	In the video
Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — an action that started earlier and is still going on	I've been using · you've been leaving · I've been trying
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	have watched · have left · you've already picked
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	being said · were created · are lifted
Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing	camera, which is · video, which is · set, which is

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 74 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, you're, I've. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “sh” and “zh” sounds: exposure /ɪkˈspəʊ.ʒə(ɹ)/, harsh /ˈhɑɹʃ/, intentional /ɪnˈtɛnʃənəl/, sharp /ʃɑɹp/, contrast /kənˈt(ʃ)ɹæst/
Long words — get the stress right: flexibility /ˌflɛksɪˈbɪlɪti/, photography /fəˈtɑ.ɡɹə.fi/, intentional /ɪnˈtɛnʃənəl/, disappointed /ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪnɪd/, ordinary /ˈɔɹdɪnɛɹi/

How to practise with this video

Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like pocket, tone, footage.

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