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…at least if you have a DJI Camera that you use, or intend to use, to vlog with.
It’s a no-brainer. It’s smaller and cheaper than the also-excellent DJI Mic 2. The audio quality is good. Are you ever going to use 32 bit float or internal backup recording for your vlog about house plants?
The DJI Mic Mini is so light it doesn’t pull your shirt down when clipped or magnetically attached to even the thinnest T-shirts. It pairs to the DJI stuff automagically, no receiver needed.
Battery life should be around 13 hours. They don’t really say how long the transmitter itself lasts on a charge, but they do say that the fully charged case will give you 48 hours of recording time, and that it will charge your microphone 3.6 times. If my math is correct, 48 hours of total run time divided by 3.6 charges gives you 13.3333333333333… hours per charge. I guess they could be adding the recording time together, since the case holds 2 mics, but honestly, will it matter if your wireless vlogging mic lasts for 6.5 or 13 hours? Almost certainly not, and if it does you can buy the combo with two mics and a case, but honestly I would just spring for the Mic 2 at that point.
Seriously, you probably just need the Mic Mini transmitter.
Sound quality is great, as you can hear for yourself in the video. It comes with two dead cats and a magnet.
It’s currently $59 for the transmitter only (unless a certain president with a perfectly smooth brain has made it more expensive since I wrote this), which is solidly in the “impulse purchase” territory for most people who can afford a $799 “Creator Camera” like the Pocket3.
The range is more than you will ever use. DJI claims 400m, which is probably true, but also who even cares? How far are you ever really gonna get from your 20mm equivalent lens? 20ft? 30ft? It’s fine at that distance, I promise.
The only real downside is the charging situation. Unlike the Mic 2, which has an on-board USB C port, the Mic Mini requires a little charging dock.
You drop it into the dock and it charges via the pogo pins. It’s mildly annoying to have to carry another cable, but to be completely honest, that’s honestly only ever going to be an issue when I travel and shoot a LOT of video. And even then, that will probably be more my personality that makes me think I need to be able to charge all the things, all the times, because it’s unlikely I’ll shoot more than 13 hours of mic’ed video even on a road trip. Also, this is a totally understandable decision because the microphone itself isn’t much larger in any single dimension than a USB C port, so I can see how it would be challenging to fit one.
I usually try to really spend time with a thing before I recommend it, so I can go over all the pros and cons and compare it to the other options available in it’s category, but in this case it’s just super simple. If you have a Pocket 3 that you vlog with, just buy the Mic Mini transmitter-only config for $59 and move on with your life. What about the Mic 2? Unless you know for sure that you need the Mic 2 (and if you don’t know why you would need the Mic 2, you don’t need it), just buy the Mini.
