DJI's first dual lens pocket gimbal camera, pairing a 1 inch wide angle with a fast 60mm portrait telephoto, rolls out to Japan, Indonesia, and Vietnam, leaving American vloggers and filmmakers on the wrong side of a familiar pattern.
DJI's most ambitious pocket camera yet, a dual-lens stabilized gimbal pairing a 1-inch wide-angle with a fast 60mm portrait telephoto, is rolling out across Asia, but American vloggers and filmmakers are once again on the outside of the launch, in a pattern that is getting worse, not better.
The Osmo Pocket 4P, DJI's first dual-lens pocket gimbal camera, pairs a 1-inch CMOS sensor with a 20mm-equivalent f/2.0 wide lens on the front, and a dedicated 60mm-equivalent f/1.8 telephoto on the back, offering 3x optical zoom and up to 12x digital zoom. DJI says the primary sensor delivers 17 stops of dynamic range through LOFIC imaging technology, and the camera introduces a 10-bit D-Log 2 color profile aimed at color-grading creators. Those specifications come from DJI's own APAC press release and have not been independently measured.
After debuting in China, the camera has now expanded to Japan, Indonesia, and Vietnam, according to DroneDJ's regional rollout coverage, with notebookcheck confirming the international release date. Coverage scope is mixed: Lowyat flags a 29 June 2026 "global launch" date, while DroneDJ frames the latest phase as an Asia-only expansion, a framing discrepancy worth flagging.
What is not in dispute is that there is no official US launch announcement. That detail, on its own, would be unremarkable; the same pattern has shaped most DJI consumer launches in America for the past several years. The Pocket 4P, however, is the most visibly creator-targeted device the company has shipped since that pattern hardened, and the exclusion is now structural rather than incidental.
The backdrop is regulatory. DJI was added to the US Entity List in December 2020, with subsequent revisions in 2021, and the Department of Defense's designation of DJI as a Chinese military company was upheld in court. DJI has framed its own response through a compliance blog arguing for ethical production and labor practices, but the operational effect on US availability is consistent: delayed rollouts, regional gaps, and a creator base that has learned to read launch coverage for what is missing.
That effect is not always direct. Customs processing, distributor decisions, and product certification all shape what reaches American shelves, and no public source establishes a clean causal line from any single regulation to this specific country list. What is fair to say is that the pattern is durable, the pattern is widening, and DJI has not used any of its Pocket 4P announcements to address whether or when a US release is coming.
The next thing to watch is whether the 29 June 2026 "global launch" framing holds, and whether DJI's own communications treat a US release as a separate, later event, or skip it altogether. For now, the most interesting creator camera of the year is on shelves in three Asian markets, and American vloggers and short-film makers are reading the news from outside the launch map.