Zhiyun Crane - Best DSLR camera Stabilizer hand held gimbal

Technology is progressing so fast, with new gear becoming available to budget filmmakers such as you and me that lets us capture the memories we share almost as perfect as we saw with our own eyes. We can now see the unseen and expose the true beauty of the world in a way which inspires. It helps us capture what we felt in the moment and the adventures that took us to the most amazing locations. Now we can capture our best memories as if they were a scene in a movie and show the world what we saw in the way we wanted it to be seen and felt the way in which we felt. Now nothing is out of reach as so much has become impossible. We are the filmmakers of the future embracing the best tales of our past. What's up guys, my name's TK. I hope you enjoyed that little cinematic edit that we put together using the Phantom 4 and the Sony A7S with the Carl Zeiss 16-35 wide-angle lens. But how do we get the shot so stabilized just using this? Well we use the Zhiyun crane which is a new stabilizer out on the market, very small and it's quite affordable. So let's get into it and show you what it does. I'm not very good at getting into boxes. Okay so it comes with a hard case which is awesome that means you've got protection to take it around everywhere. This is sounding really dirty. Now when you first pull it out of the box you'll notice that it comes with quite a few things inside. First of all you have a little nut that you attach underneath this to your camera so it can sit on top of it. You also have another one that is a bit longer in case your threading is longer or if you want to attach something on it. You also have this lens holder which if you're using a very heavy lens and it's shaky when you're stabilizing you can put this on the end and it holds your lens up. It also comes with two sets of batteries. The other set is inside the crane and when you first get it out of the box it's a little bit wiggly and hard to control so just be careful with it. God this is sounding so dirty. So once you've got it out of the box you will need a screw depending on which one your camera can take and you'll need the other end of the crane which is also inside the box. I put these batteries in here because I've used it before and basically you need to screw this once you put the batteries on onto the other side of the screw thread and screw it on like so. It's a pretty simple device to use. Mounting it onto the camera is a bit fiddly as you can see it's quite hard to do. I'm going to make some space here. Neighbors are having a little domestic dispute behind me. Finally got it. Make sure the screw is screwed up tightly so your camera does not fall off when it tips. Now we have to balance it. It's not just ready to go straight out the box. If you turned it on right now when the camera was all unbalanced and not weighted properly it wouldn't be very good for the motors. So you have to be very careful. Make sure it's balanced before you turn it on. The Zhiyun crane can take up to 1.2 kilos or 1200 grams of weight. This is a very heavy setup this camera. The Sony a7s with the Carl Zeiss 16-35mm. This weighs just under a kilo or roughly a kilo. So like this is a heavy camera like this lens weighs a ton and the Zhiyun crane it can take this weight perfectly as you can see in the video before. The way I like to set my camera up is to have it fairly close to the back so the weight of the lens and the camera is quite even. As you can see it's nowhere near weighed, nowhere near balanced. Now the Zhiyun crane has three different axis's or axis motors to keep it balanced and to keep it stabilized. The first one is on top of the stick, the second one is behind and the last one is on the side. These all have little grey screws on each one. To balance it you need to unscrew the screws and adjust it in and out to get the weight right. So let's try that right now. Don't forget to make sure that your lens is zoomed to the amount that you want it to when it's on the crane and your lens cap is off. I just made that mistake and now I've got to readjust it again. Something is biting me. Oh just got bitten by an ant. It's my friend Joel he wants to go clubbing tonight. What? You sound like your brother on the phone. No I'm not my brother, I'm Ben. Oh yeah no it's definitely Ben. I can drive your car. Yeah we can still take my car. Yeah because if because you'll probably drink more than me. Yeah it's easier, it's easier. Yeah all right we'll do that. Okay so it took a little while but I finally got it all balanced. So in this position it doesn't move, turn it upside down, up. It's hard to get perfect but you get the point. The camera shouldn't move. All right so let's turn it on and it is alive. So basically wherever you turn the handle the camera will follow delicately and make your footage look beautiful. You can lift it down, lift it up. Now what I love about this opposed to my glide cam is the fact that I can get really low shots against the ground if I really need to get them and with the glide cam you can't get to the ground. The thing this has over a glide cam is the fact that you don't have to put weights on it every time you change the lens. With that you change the lens, you've got to adjust it and put weight on it. This you just have to adjust it which isn't too bad. Oops be careful with it too. Now the Zhiyun crane has four different modes that you can click in and click out of. The first one is this mode. I'm going to call it the follow mode because I don't really know what it's called but basically it stays balanced and level no matter how you tilt it and it follows the direction you're holding the stick. The second mode is a different kind of follow mode but it follows the tilt so if you tilt it it's going to do well it's going to basically face where the stick's tilting which is pretty cool. Okay so the third mode is basically it will stay perfectly where you positioned it no matter where the stick is facing. So let's just pan across here it does not move. You can do whatever you want with the stick and it just keeps facing forward. Now the last mode which is probably my favorite mode is the selfie mode. Yeah this is such an awesome piece of gear to take with you whenever you're doing selfies or vlogging because it's just so perfectly stabilized it's honestly it's it is unbelievable. Say hi to the camera. Hello. This thing is awesome guys like seriously if you're coming from a glide cam like this to one of these you are going to be in love with this. Why did I say that this was the best stabilizer in the description? Well basically because of how portable it is you can't take a DJI Ronin with you everywhere because it's so freaking heavy you can't take a glide cam with you everywhere because it's just so big and you know it can break stuff. This thing is perfect it's so portable and you know it's it's a little bit heavy but I mean the fact you can take it with you anywhere is just astonishing. There's this little switch here basically you move it up and it tilts the camera up move it down tilts the camera down this is an awesome function because when you're trying to move the camera slowly and get a delicate shot like that you can also move upwards. It does limit though you can hit that so be careful with that okay guys but yeah that is such a cool feature the fact that you can like pan it and tilt down at the same time like that is so cool. I'm seriously in love with this like this is going to replace my glide cam although I still need this for clubbing. I edit club videos a fair bit and I use this for clubs because I have to put a light on it and this can't take that much weight and when you put a light on it's going to hit the motors so this is going to stick with me for clubbing videos and environments when there's a lot of people. I did use this for clubbing and it was a very good idea but also a very bad idea. As you can see from this footage here this was using the Zhiyun crane it was awesome until somebody bumped me and the crane went a little bit skits so I had to turn it off really quickly make sure that all the motors you know got damaged. That's one thing you have to be careful of if you're filming in crowds or if you're filming just where there's heaps of people that can bump into you they can knock this off balance and the motors will drop it and it'll just try and pick up but it can't because the motors aren't strong enough to lift the weight that just got unbalanced so you're better off taking this in places where it's not going to get bumped. Now the battery life is amazing this thing can apparently run for six hours I haven't tested it for that long but I was out for an entire day for about oh not an entire day for two to three hours. Everything you do to this changing lenses putting a lens cap on can even make the camera out of balance for example this is a lens cap this weighs nothing like nothing check this out if you can spare 740 Australian dollars that's probably like 500 US or something like that seriously get it you can take this everywhere and get cinematic shots this thing is oh cool man well I could play with this all day even if I'm not filming it's just cool to like watch it do its thing. Thanks for watching guys I hope you enjoyed this video and I hope you enjoyed the cinematic bits that we did at the start I mean that was a lot of fun to make I'd love to do more stuff like that if you want to learn more about this or if you want to see what I do next and or if you want to learn how I edit my special effects and transitions and color grading like click my funny looking head right here and subscribe to my channel and god I'd love you guys to learn through my channel like that would be sick I'd I'd love to teach people so if you like my videos please watch these videos next these ones I'm sure you'll enjoy until the next time TKTV out thanks guys