I've been waiting all summer for the new Ronin-S to come in stock. Guess what she's here boys
Alright guys, so we have the Ronin s here today. It's a really promising new camera gimbal
it's got a lot of neat features that independent filmmakers and
Cinematographers are gonna really like so today we're gonna unbox it and see what's inside the box
Cuz that's what you do only unbox things who writes this stuff
First of all this handle I don't even want to throw this case out
That's nice, they're even sealing up their boxes with their own stickers now
I think it might have a case, included
That's why the handle is so nice
Kind of a cool little latch here for all the latchkey kids. Oh you got a twist
Dry-ice comes out epic. This looks like it's a stand here
So you can see that kind of opens up all the way. It's got a quarter 20 screw there
It's got a good feel just feels like watching
Next I gotta go for the leather hmm got some screws in there
it's got uh
Yeah
A lot of screws and hex screwdrivers standard accessories got like a charging cable looks like USB-C that's the future kids
USB see it's just a lot of cables
It looks like it could have some important usage, but we're gonna come back to this. So we have
This nice handle wrapped in silicon
I gotta tell you just from holding this it feels really solid now
I'm gonna pull out don't like to be the actual motor on the gimbal. It's definitely made of metal
It's kind of cool to the touch who I feels good. That's the focus knob right there
You can see the focus knob that is really nice. Really smooth feeling. I can't wait to use that
I've got some options for a little joystick here and it's got a one-two-three
we'll find out what that means soon and looks like M, maybe for
Mother also it looks like that could be a record button right there
And we've got the power button here on this side power button on the side
That's where I like them buttons. Let's try to attach this handle
So you got the the gold pins right there the gold pins. So we're going to put the pins together
And then this is your lock here. So you're gonna lock them pins in place. Oh, yeah now it's coming together
You'd like to gimbal that's illegal unless you 18 in certain states next. Let's attach the old
Triforce here got a quarter twenty
You've also got what it looks like to be a little bigger screw down get them big old screws
I've got a big old screw, you know what to say. You got the helicopter
Can't wait to get a camera on here. Very solid feeling we've got what looks to be a camera mounting plate here
That's we're gonna mount your camera. Also, it just feels like a really nice steel or whatever
They using is just kind of good good feeling to it. I like it
So there's the camera plate slide it on. This is probably the lock lever Oh got it
Got it locked in when you're traveling. You have a little velcro to hold it together
keeps going and goin and
So now you've got the full range of motion
And then you've got all sorts of adjustment levers
So you get this adjustment lever here lots of options for adjusting and keeping it centered
The last thing looks like they've included here is the power charger. So you've got a nice little AC unit that's powered by USB
So you can plug this little girl in and get a charging
The other cool thing is it's got a lot more adjustments for your balancing here
And it also has the focus built in which works with certain cameras and configurations. This is where you're gonna charge it
This is your USB charger right here the USB chargers gonna plug here and it's going to charge it and the battery's
integrated into the hand unit
Another nice feature about this gimbal is the legs. They don't all come with this not all gimbals come with the legs
So it's really nice to just be able to set it down if you've been shooting and you've got a heavy camera on there
It's nice to just be able to boom set it down and you can take a little rest
So we're going to hook this up to the charger get a little charge action going so here's the USBC cable
Put that in there. Just kidding. That's USB a
USB-A
port here that flips up and you plug to C
USBC and right there power. Anybody got power power needs for power
That's my little monkey always giving me the power
Okay, so when it's plugged in you're gonna see a really nice little green bar that lets you know
How much juice you got where your juice is going what you do to do other things in the leather case
Quarter twenty screws now
This is actually the camera riser not paul reiser
And then the other things we've got in here are the weird proprietary cable. I found the manual found the manual
It's like a secret compartment
This little guy here is actually the lens support they put that you to do and then you can support your lens like that
support your lens give them you know vote for me for
senator support your lenses, that's everything that's included in the case of the Ronin s
Let's go get a camera
Always eat a little candy when you read the directions helps it sink in your head a little bit
We're gonna attach the camera we put a little quarter-twenty screw they supply these in the case, which is nice
We've got an a 7s mark II here. So we're gonna put the a 7s mark II on to the base plate
Okay
So we're actually gonna attach the camera riser on here because it is a little bit too light I think for the setup
This will help distribute the weight better
tightening tightening
That's the camera riser that's been installed
Now we're gonna put on the plate cam riser and the mounting plate
So you want to make sure that the little screw here is in the front because you can actually attach
The optional lens support bracket there if you need it in the front so always make sure this is on the right side
That's how you know that this is setup, right?
So you may have to flip this around to get it right then what you want to do is take it and slide it in
backwards here and press the little button on the side that releases the lock and
Then you're in so now you if you let go it'll catch
At that unless you press the button on the side and then it goes through lock that side lever
All the way this little piggy went all the way home to the lock position
The first step when you point it up is you want to make sure that this axis here is not tipping forward or backwards
okay, so right now
It's unlocked as you can see and it's basically staying in position
Okay, so we're gonna lock that now you should actually do this with the cap off but just for safety
I'm keeping the cap on right now. So the next step is to basically make sure that this is not top or bottom heavy
So we've loosened the side here as you can see it's loose down here
So we're just gonna hold this here and we're gonna adjust it until it's nice and solid like that
It's not moving forward or backward. So the next one is a roll axis. That's right here
We're gonna move this back and forth until it's stable in this position right now. It's a little right heavy
So we're gonna just move it back a little bit
It's pretty good, we're gonna tighten that down. For the next one, you want to grab the handle on the Ronin-S
Basically, you're gonna loosen right here. Okay, we're adjusting the pan here bringing it up a little it's pretty solid there
So we're gonna lock that. We're getting close
We're getting close lots of adjustments and you might have to go back and tweak a couple see how it's a little bit leaning
So we might bring it back just a hair
Looks pretty good. Make sure the camera is balanced before powering on the Ronin-S. That is the trigger right there
That's the Ronin-s M button
So if you hold those two down simultaneously for four seconds, it's gonna start Auto Tune up in this piece
Alright, we're powering on here we go. One two three
four
Enable bluetooth on your mobile device what guess I gotta download the Ronin s app. We downloaded the app
It's a nice little Ronin DJI app. It wasn't responding until I connected it to the app
Maybe you can do that. But for us we connected it to the app first and now it's working
So we're going to auto-tune it here we go. Hold down M and hold down the trigger on the front for four seconds
one two three four
let go
Jumping around like a little baby dolphin
It's a good sound
Think it's done. So this is your mode button here. Okay, so when you click M, you've got three different modes here
So we're kind of in mode two is when I'm panning
Panning with us tilting down. It's gonna tilt down as well. Yeah, that's gonna mode three
There's a little stiffer. It's kind of just staying more in one spot with mode three
okay, so even though I'm panning down it's kind of
Staying in that same spot there
So if you tilt it down the lens so you can then use this little remote here
And you can kind of do Z dou Z panning it like that it look there's a little rabbit on the floor
I think I'm gonna get it and then I'm like what there's a back in the ceiling
Let's get the bat and then you're like, whoa! Look, there's a person I'm gonna get the person now
Because I'm on the Ronin. Let's go back to mode one. Oh, wow, all those people out there look so good
Guess what? We're recording camera guys. Oh, no
Guess who's being recorded now, not me suckers
You're on the Ronin. So we're gonna like all come up from under the table
And it's out of focus. Oh, it's in focus now and we're Ronin-ing it over here. Now what?
So sexy like butter like
What we're coming over here to this camera guy also known as Chris Plourde
Also an actor or ladies he's single that's me in the reflection
This is just test footage people don't expect, you know, Monalisa
that is the unboxing and a quick little setup on the Ronin s if you're looking to enhance your
Cinematography and get some really smooth moves. I think you're gonna like this gimbal
It's a pretty good price for what you get and if you want to pick one of these bad boys up
We've got links below so you can check them out. You can put a lot of weight on here
This is just the tip of the old iceberg with the old a7 s but you might want to put an elephant on there
It's gonna hold up a lot of weight and by elephant, I mean a red
Cause they're big
and gray
We're gonna do a full review on it in a couple weeks. So keep a lookout for that. We'll see you next time film jammers