XTRA opens global sales of the Muse 2 and Muse 2 Pro tomorrow, November 10, and both pocket gimbal cameras carry two lenses this generation. The Muse 2 starts at $569. The Muse 2 Pro starts at $699.
We first covered the Pro in July, when its dual-lens design surfaced in our early look. One fixed lens is the standing compromise of this camera class: shoot wide and faces shrink to the back of the frame, or crop in afterwards and hand resolution away. XTRA’s answer is a second camera with its own sensor and a longer lens.
The Muse 2 kit
A 1-inch CMOS sensor sits behind the 20 mm f/2.0 wide lens. The second camera pairs a 1/1.3-inch sensor with a 60 mm f/2.8 lens, so portraits and detail shots get dedicated optics instead of a digital crop.
Standard recording runs to 4K/60 on both cameras. Slow Motion mode pushes the wide camera to 4K/240fps and the telephoto camera to 4K/120fps, and 10-bit X-Log 3 color carries up to 15.5 stops of dynamic range on the wide camera, so graded footage holds its highlights and shadow detail through a grade.
A 2-inch OLED touchscreen swivels between horizontal and vertical framing and peaks at 1,000 nits for outdoor checks. Master Follow keeps a selected subject in frame while you move, an open palm starts or stops tracking, and a V gesture fires a still or starts a take.
There’s 103 GB of storage built in before a card ever goes in, and a microSD slot takes cards up to 1 TB. The 1,900 mAh battery fast-charges to 80% in about 17 minutes on a 65 W PD charger in XTRA’s lab testing. The body weighs 199 grams and carries an IPX8 rating inside its protective case.
The Standard Combo at $569 is the bare kit: camera, magnetic USB-C charging cable, protective case and lanyard.
The Vlog Combo at $599 rebuilds the kit around an Xtra Voko wireless microphone transmitter with its magnetic charging cable and a furry windscreen. The Creator Combo at $699 adds a battery grip, a fill light, a mini tripod, a magnetic back clip and the snap-on wide-angle lens.
Price: $569 Standard Combo · $599 Vlog Combo · $699 Creator Combo
Where to buy: XTRA
What the Pro adds
The Pro keeps the layout and upgrades the glass. Its wide camera runs the 1-inch sensor with LOFIC technology for up to 17 stops of dynamic range, and its telephoto camera steps up to a 1/1.28-inch sensor behind a 60 mm f/1.8 lens that gathers a stop more light.
Slow Motion reaches 4K/240fps on the wide camera and 4K/200fps on the telephoto. Stills run to about 37 MP with manual exposures up to four seconds, and a DisplayPort output sends a 4K/60 feed to a capture card, which puts the Pro in live-production rigs the standard camera can’t join. Vertical recording runs to 3K/60 for social cuts straight from the swivel screen.
Subject First registers up to three people for tracking and autofocus priority, and multi-person centering keeps a group framed instead of picking one face. The open-palm and V gestures carry over from the standard camera.
The two lenses set 1x and 3x framing on both models, and supported video modes stretch digital zoom from there to 12x, a 240 mm equivalent view. Low-Light Video, Slow Motion and Timelapse skip the digital reach and stay locked to the two optical lengths the hardware actually carries.
XTRA also tunes the Pro for dim rooms. Its 4K low-light recording runs dedicated processing that pulls noise down while holding detail and color, aimed at evening shoots, indoor events and the last hour of a wedding.
A 1,545 mAh battery reaches 80% in about 18 minutes and a full charge in about 32 on a 65 W PD charger in lab testing. No charger ships in the box.
XTRA prices the Pro Standard Combo at $699, bundling the camera, a USB-C to USB-C PD cable, a wrist strap and a carrying bag. The Vlog Combo at $609 undercuts it and bundles the cable, a protective case and a lanyard. The Creator Combo at $869 adds the Voko 2 transmitter, a battery grip, a fill light, a mini tripod and the wide-angle lens, all in a larger carrying bag.
Price: $699 Standard Combo · $609 Vlog Combo · $869 Creator Combo
Where to buy: XTRA
XTRA’s store already lists the accessory shelf for the line: an Edge ND filter set, a soft mist filter, a diving accessory kit and a cold-resistant 1900 battery.
Both cameras record spatial audio, and Audio Zoom tightens sound pickup as the frame zooms. Files move to a computer over USB-C or wirelessly to the XTRA app, and the Pro doubles as a 1080p UVC webcam on a cable.
The DJI alternative
The cross-shop is DJI’s Osmo Pocket 3, still the single-lens benchmark in this class. Its 1-inch sensor records 4K/120 behind one 20 mm lens, its screen rotates for vertical work, and Amazon has it at $439 today, $130 less than the Muse 2. What it never does is change focal length without cropping into the sensor.
| Muse 2 | Muse 2 Pro | DJI Osmo Pocket 3 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sensor pair | 1-inch + 1/1.3-inch | 1-inch LOFIC + 1/1.28-inch | 1-inch only |
| Lenses | 20 mm f/2.0 + 60 mm f/2.8 | 20 mm f/2.0 + 60 mm f/1.8 | 20 mm f/2.0 |
| Top standard video | 4K/60 | 4K/60 | 4K/120 |
| Top slow motion | 4K/240 wide, 4K/120 tele | 4K/240 wide, 4K/200 tele | 4K/120 |
| Price | $569 | $699 | $439 |
Price: $439
Where to buy: Amazon
Sales open tomorrow through XTRA’s store. Shoot everything at one focal length and DJI’s cheaper camera keeps its edge. Keep cropping into a wide shot for faces and product details, though, and the second lens on these two is the fix, priced from $569.
