Ahoj! This is Zdenka. Two words.
Much cheaper and very easy to use.
Okay, it's six words. Last year I had a
chance to review many gimbals. Most of
them were smartphone gimbals but I also
did review a few
mirrorless cameras and DSLR's gimbals.
Well,
a lot of people, a lot of you were saying
in comments that you're looking for a
budget-friendly option and I think in
today's video I have just that for you
because this gimbal is definitely
one of the cheapest I had a chance to
review
and on top of it, it is very easy to use.
It's very straight forward great for
beginners.
It's got this big....
Feiyu Tech contacted me a while ago
offering me this gimbal for a review and
at first I was kind of like... ah.... another
gimbal but then when I saw the pricing.
It really caught my attention because I
started thinking about you, the ones
which requested budget friendly options.
By the way, I'm not paid to say certain
things. They did provide the gimbal for a
review
so I'm gonna review it. This is in-depth
review. This is not a smartphone gimbal.
This is for small mirrorless cameras
such as Canon M50 and canon M6 Mark II
but it can handle larger cameras like
Sony A7 series as well
as long as you meet the maximum payload
which is 2.2 kilograms.
The Feiyu Tech AK2000C.
The gimbal arrives in padded box. You're
going to get the gimbal,
tripod, ARCA quick release plate with
fixed
short screw, lens holder with another
fixed screw,
wrench, a whole bunch of cables, data
cable usb
2.0 to type C, control cable type C to
type C,
Shutter cable for Cony type C to multi,
shutter cable for Panasonic
DC 2.5 millimeters and shutter cable
type
C to TRS 2.5.
The gimbal is foldable so it can fit
nicely into your backpack.
When you're on the go, the dimensions
are... Once it is balanced
ready to go, these are the dimensions. And
as I mentioned earlier the maximum
payload is 2.2 kilograms or
2200 grams. The weight of the gimbal is
1078 grams so it is not
the heaviest. There is built in 2 200
mAh battery
which can be fully charged quite quickly
in 1.5 hours.
If you have gimbal well balanced the
battery life should get you 12 hours.
It's time to get practical. It's got
classic design like most of the other
gimbals but there is one thing which is
quite different
though. The base plate where you can
attach ARCA quick release plate and
lens holder is already attached to
gimbal
and can be stored with the gimbal
without removing it.
Perhaps there are other gimbals which
are doing it but I haven't really seen
this around. This is the first for me.
I find it helpful. It makes it faster. When I
look at the design and hold it in my
hands
it is quite sturdy. It is made of
aluminium alloy, the tripod can be nicely
folded. On top you have the
rubber surface so it's not going to slip
out.
There is no rubber surface on the gimbal
itself so if your hands are
you know, they tend to get sweaty here
and there, I would probably suggest to
glue something on top here. Obviously you
don't want to cover the nice wooden
finish
but otherwise the tripod makes it very
nice because you can really extend the
grip
and you have a lot more room for your
hands. Balancing is very much the same
like
on all the other gimbals. Each axis comes
with locks so it's very
simple. You just lock the motors you
don't need, release the ones you need
to balance. It is also very helpful when
you are carrying it from place to place
already having your camera placed in.
Again, it was very straight forward. I had
no issues with it.
Once you understand how to balance one
gimbal, you know how to do them all
pretty much.
They even included very simple manual
with clear photos
how to do that all. I gotta give it a
huge credit though when it comes to
connecting a camera. It was very easy.
With the other gimbals you have to go
through settings, select the brand and
all that but this one, all I had to
really do
connect it together via cable, turn on
the gimbal first
then turn on the camera and I was ready
to use it. I didn't have to do anything
else.
The record button was already working.
Now, obviously when you're shopping for
such gimbal you want to go through
compatibility list
first and you can find that on their
website to make sure that
the camera and the lens is compatible
with this gimbal, is going to be working
the way you want to.
Let's take a close look at this gimbal.
Quarter inch
thread hole is here at the top and on
the sides. This is where you can attach
your monitors,
your microphone and stuff like that. To
connect your camera, the port
is right here.
This is a tilt axis, this is
roll axis and this is pan axis. Each of
the motors has
its lock and where you charge your
gimbal is
right here. Before I'm going to explain
all modes and buttons, let's see how
stable this gimbal actually is. I'm going
to do two tests.
One will be the smaller camera Canon M6
Mark II where I will walk,
the regular heavy duty walk, then I will
do ninja walk and full speed run.
The second test will be with the Sony
A7Siii camera and Tamron lens. I didn't
find that camera on the compatibility
list but I want to test it
because it's much heavier than the
smaller camera and I want to see
how the motors will handle it, so you be
the judge on your own.
Let's look at the buttons and the whole
interface. What do we
have here. Power button is right here.
When you long press, it will turn on and
off.
You will also control the touch screen
with this button.
Single tap to lock and unlock the screen
or return to home page,
double tap to enter standby mode and
single tap to wake up the gimbal.
Looking at the front you will notice how
nice and big the touch screen really
is. You can see it from any angle and it
makes things
very simple and well organized. It will
all make sense to any newbie when it
comes to the gimbals
very quickly because you have very good
visual
icons which show exactly what you're
doing.
It is very easy to memorize this. You can
just tap on the screen and know exactly
in which mode you
are. Lock mode, pan follow mode,
pan and tilt mode and all follow mode.
When it comes to screen I'm going to
stop here for a second. It's definitely
got a lot more things but I'm gonna move
on to the
buttons. Typical joystick is here. Look at
the nice graphics how it is showing when
you're moving the camera up,
down, left and right. Below the joystick
from the left we have
mode button. Single tap allows you to
switch between lock and pan mode,
double tap allows you to switch to pan
and tilt mode
and triple press allows you to go to all
follow mode.
In the middle is the shutter button. If
you press halfway it will focus.
Single tap is either taking photos or
videos depending on the mode you are in.
Long press for 5 seconds will give
you auto burst
shot, of course it all depends on your
camera
compatibility and on the right we have
function button
where when you single tap, you will
switch between photo
and video mode. And on the other side we
have a trigger button which is on the
back.
Press and hold to enter follow mode,
double tap to reset
and triple tap to turn the camera around
to get the selfie mode.
To get it back triple tap again. Now,
let's go back to that screen.
So you can control the modes, when you
press the icons
great. Let's swipe right. Here you can
control aperture and ISO on your camera
if your camera is compatible.
Swipe right again and here you can
select appropriate
white balance. Let's swipe the other way.
This is the home screen.
I'll keep swiping left. Here we have
inception mode and if I press that,
I can select speed and how many times I
want it to spin clockwise
or counterclockwise. Then we have motion
timelapse.
Here you can select time settings, route
settings or use the last
settings you were using before this. Here
we also have selfie mode
and portrait is grayed out for me. I'll
swipe again.
Here we have payload settings where you
can select everything manually or use
auto adaption. Shooting mode is next.
Select default mode,
smooth mode or action mode which will be
for running
or customize this setting by selecting
follow speed and dead
zone. Joystick can be customized here as
well.
Reversed settings or speed settings are
the options.
Lastly, we have settings here where you
can calibrate the gimbal.
Just press it and let it do its own
thing and
language can be also selected. One thing
I didn't talk about yet and that would
be the range of the motors.
Maximum tilt range is 230 degrees,
maximum roll range is 306 degrees
and maximum pan range is 360 degrees.
Tilt follow speed can be adjusted
between 2 degrees a second to 75 degrees
and pan follow speed can be adjusted
between 3 degrees
and 150 degrees. I would like to also
mention that if you like to shoot lots
in low
angle, you can purchase versatile arm
accessory
if you like that kind of setup. The
gimbal can be connected
to your smartphone of course these days.
It'd be very weird if you couldn't.
So the app you would be using is Feiyu On.
Bluetooth connection was
instant, I had no issues. If you want to
connect your camera via wi-fi, you would
simply tap here to download the firmware.
Once installed, you just select your
camera model and enable wi-fi.
All controls are here. Joystick
modes, moving roll motor re-center and you
can also customize the motor speed.
Under advanced settings you can
customize your trigger button,
motor strength, joystick, select scene,
film time-lapse motion, time-lapse and
perform horizontal calibration.
When you go to the home area of the app
you will find
built-in video editing so you can edit
your videos on the smartphone
or you can also use auto edit. It is a
simple gimbal with
basic functions, great for beginners.
Again, it's very easy to use.
The big screen makes it very easy to use.
If you are someone
who needs focus wheel because the focus
wheel is not on this gimbal,
you will have to go with the model up,
otherwise this would be very basic
again perfect for beginners. Price is
good.
Now, if you are interested to see the
pricing in your currency depending on
where you live, the link can be found
below the video in the video description.
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I am gonna be comparing this gimbal with
few other gimbals I have here in the
future.
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Cau.... Ahoj...