My favorite gear I used in 2025

Hi guys, in this video I want to talk about the DJI RS4 Mini gimbal that I've got up here and that I've had a chance to use over the last six months on various jobs. So I've shot a bunch of short films and actually a couple music videos with this gimbal and it's a great gimbal especially if you're going to travel, which is where I used it. I used it in these productions where I had to travel but it was a very small crew. We also didn't have a big budget for carrying a lot of gear so we had to rely on smaller cameras and because of that I could take a smaller gimbal that takes up less space in my luggage. Obviously the biggest feature of this is the fact that you pretty much have an RS4 gimbal but in a slightly smaller format so it makes it a lot easier to travel with it because you can pack it in a lot smaller luggage. I actually traveled and I only took my carry-on luggage for one of the jobs that I did and so I was able to fit my Sony FX3 camera, a couple lenses and just a gimbal and it was enough to actually shoot this whole project. That is really good if you want to be using this for tracking so you can use it for tracking yourself. It will actually lock onto your face and you can turn on and off the feature for tracking just with your hand which is a good thing but sometimes that can actually be a bad thing because there was actually one case where I was shooting a music video performance with this setup that you see up here and everything was great until I started realizing that sometimes the camera like sometimes it will basically follow exactly where I'm pointing the camera and sometimes it would just go off and do its own thing and it wasn't until I kind of clicked in and realized that I left the camera under and so whenever the artist was moving her hands in front of the camera she actually by accident sometimes enabled the facial tracking and then disabled it and enabled it and disabled it and so in that case it was actually kind of annoying. Now you can go through the settings on the app and you can kind of manually enable, disable it, you have options there but that's something to basically be aware of is that it's especially if you have somebody talking and moving their hands a lot that can actually be basically it can make the gimbal kind of go a little bit wacky on you so just be aware of that. Another thing that I wish DJI would provide is actually first of all nice case so when you're traveling with it you have it you know you can kind of put it away nicely and keep it protected but also a little case for this thing because like I said you can remove this so if you don't want the facial tracking you can remove this camera easily. Now the issue with taking off the camera is that it's very small so you can lose it easily but also you could scratch that lens so I actually ended up using like a little case for my lavalier microphones and I just put it in that but I wish DJI actually provided like a little protective little case for this and definitely if you guys want to I would say travel with this gimbal and you're gonna have this camera get yourself a nice travel case that will protect both this camera and the gimbal for you. Now there are already a few options out there that you can buy separately if you guys want information on that as always check out my website at TomAntusFilms.com. Putting the camera is super easy you can see it has a magnet and it just kind of snaps in place. Also what I like in general about this gimbal is that just like the RS4 it just makes it super easy you know fast to balance your camera and then when you want to turn on and off the camera you can easily have it basically go into lag mode so it will lag all the axis for you and then you can unlock it quickly so when the gimbal is on if you want to just quickly pause it you just tap the power button and it just lags all the axis for you so you can see right now I can travel with it I can or I can for example just leave it here if I'm taking a quick break and the motors are now using power so it's going to conserve your battery in your gimbal and then this way you can quickly just tap it it unlocks all the axis for you and you can go back to filming with it. Now let's say you're going to actually turn it off for longer then you would press and hold the power button and then we'll actually fold it all for you and shut off completely the gimbal. You can see the screen is off and then you know you can take it with you put it away for example and then when you're ready start filming with it again you press and hold longer the power button. It's going to power up the gimbal and go to your neutral position so this makes it super fast like if you need to turn on and off the gimbal between takes or setups. The app for this and also just a menu here that you have on the back of this gimbal is very very good very intuitive so makes it super easy and fast to change all the settings really that you want to change while you're working with this. You can obviously change all the different modes that the gimbal offers but you can also even go in there further and kind of tweak the different settings, dampening speeds you know the tracking speed things like that. [Music] We're fixing the Vespa. It only worked for a few hours and it broke but it's an antique from 1960 something so. [Music] Hopefully you guys enjoyed this video. If you did make sure you check out my website TomAntosFilms.com for any additional information about whether it's this product and some of the accessories I was mentioning or other filmmaking gear reviews and tutorials but also if you enjoyed this video you'll probably enjoy this other video that I've got up here and again you can follow the links for that in the description of this video.