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What makes the Luna Pro truly hardcore is its industry-first native 4K vertical shooting.
This isn't simply cropping a horizontal frame into 9:16. It's an entire end-to-end system rebuilt for vertical — from sensor readout and computational photography to monitoring/control and platform distribution.
Traditional gimbal cameras achieve vertical shooting by reading out the full sensor horizontally and then digitally cropping (windowing) the image, wasting a huge number of pixels. The Luna Pro, on the other hand, uses full-sensor oversampling downscaling — essentially condensing 6K resolution into a 4K vertical frame.
And here’s how the Luna Pro’s vertical shooting workflow works:
1.Set the menu to 16:9 aspect ratio and hold the camera horizontally — this triggers 6K oversampling downscaled to native 4K30fps in 9:16 output.
2.AI Deep Tracking 5.0 locks onto the subject while the 3-axis gimbal stabilizes the shot.
3.For solo creators, press the latch to detach the remote monitor, walk up to 20 meters away, and frame yourself in real time.
4.The built-in wireless microphone in the remote monitor captures dialogue simultaneously.
5.Leica color presets plus in-camera beauty mode deliver portrait-ready video straight out of camera.
6.After filming, use NFC quick transfer or the app to share directly to Douyin, RED (Xiaohongshu), or WeChat Channels — all in one tap.
Zero post-production cropping, no horizontal-to-vertical conversion. This is what the era of native 4K vertical shooting actually means.
At its core, the Luna Pro’s vertical shooting capability represents a fundamental re-engineering across three dimensions:
1. Imaging pipeline: 6K oversampling downscaled to native 9:16 4K output physically eliminates the pixel waste that comes from using a horizontal sensor for vertical capture.
2. Ergonomics: By decoupling the monitor from the imaging module — with 20-meter wireless transmission and a built-in mic in the remote screen — the Luna Pro closes the loop for solo vertical content creation.
3. Optics and color science: A 20mm f/1.8 Leica lens paired with straight-out-of-camera color tuning optimized specifically for vertical portraits and location-based content (e.g., café visits, store tours).
So the Luna Pro’s vertical shooting isn’t just a feature add-on. It treats vertical short-form video creation as a first-class citizen — completely rethinking the entire chain from sensor readout to final distribution.
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