Ahoj! This is Zdenka. Last few days I've been showered by so many questions, I am
always showered by these type of questions. What camera should I get? Or
should I start vlogging with my smartphone or should I get a regular
camera? And I would say every fifth question I get is which smartphone
gimbal is the best? My personal question is, how long will it take before this is
the end to smartphone gimbals?
I would like to discuss all this. I would like to discuss on what is happening,
when I just saw yesterday, what I was filming last few weeks. Let me give you
hints on making the decision for yourself. There were two videos I filmed
at the exactly same location at the exact same time of the day. The only
difference was that it was filmed few weeks apart. The first video was filmed
with the iPhone 11 Pro and DJI Osmo mobile 3, so let's look at that one.
The second one was filmed with Canon M50, Viltrox speed booster and some EF
lenses. Let's play that one as well.
There was a significant difference between the first one and the second one.
Not just because I was filming a person in a second one. Let's not talk about
that. Let's look at the colors, the sharpness, the depth of field, the overall
look. Which one do you prefer? In case you are wondering what it is,
that's my new shelving system which I ordered for my studio so the background
when I'm filming gets a little bit busier. Vlogging on a smartphone is
very convenient. We already have it in our pockets, we don't have to drag the
big camera bag and you just pull it out and you just start filming. I
think that vlogging with smartphone is very convenient for someone who has a
channel where the visual side of the things is not so important such as the
content and the spoken words or the action. And I like to use smartphone
myself as well when I'm traveling, for the family time, for my personal purpose
or even partially professionally because I actually use it for the social media
which is part of this thing. But if you have a channel like me for example where
the visual side of things is more important than anything else,
then mirrorless cameras such as Canon M6 Mark II. It might be an option for you
because you need to bring the visual side of things to the top-notch quality.
Do you need to go all the way up to camera like Canon R5 or 6
we just came out? No, not really. I am perfectly happy right now with the
Canon m6 mark ii which is just perfect, has minimal requirements I need for what I'm
doing right now. Unfortunately Canon M50 is not
meeting the minimum requirements anymore because filming in 120fps
only gives me 720p. I purposely filmed the last cinematic
sequence with Canon M50 in 120 fps to see for
myself and when I was watching it on my smartphone, it was fine, but when I was
watching it on a computer and then I watched it on TV, it was simply
disappointing because 720p, the quality is not
simply there. So it really ensured me that I'm doing the right thing that
Canon M6 Mark II is right now my main camera before I'm gonna say again that
it's not good enough for me anymore. On the other hand, if you are going to do
a lot of professional work, a lot of clients work, then I would get camera
like Canon R for example. What I would do is to get a camera which meets my
minimal requirements and the budget is kind of good so I still have a lot of
money left for buying very good quality lenses because if you're gonna invest a
lot of money in a great expensive camera and then you realize that you have no
money left for the lenses, you're not gonna help yourself in increasing
quality. You're gonna decrease it if you're gonna go the other way around and
you're gonna start buying cheap lenses which are not gonna help. When I
purchased this iPhone 11 Pro two months ago, I was impressed by the
stabilization at that time. Two months ago I was thinking about the
future of the smartphone gimbals, how its gonna develop in the future. And the
same thing is happening with the mirrorless cameras. Look at the newly
released Canon R5. The stabilization is just unreal. Sure, for some stuff you still
need a gimbal. When it comes to smartphone, my thoughts were about the
built-in stabilization and there was a slight idea two months ago which crossed
my mind a little bit about built-in gimbals but I thought.... oh this is gonna
happen, we are talking about few years ahead, a lot further in the future. Well,
was I ever wrong. Things are moving at much faster speed then I originally
thought. Yesterday I was watching a video, review of a brand new smartphone with
four cameras, four lenses and built-in gimbal. It is Vivo X50 Pro smartphone. I'm
gonna link that video in the video description, so you can watch it after
this one. Unbox therapy made it. All I gotta say that the footage was
interesting. Is this the starting point of the road
till the end of smartphone gimbal era? Let
me know what your thoughts are, write them below in the comment section. As I
look at it, the stabilization and smartphones are gonna get only better
with time and now that we have actual smartphone which has already built in
gimbal in the smartphone, it's just gonna be a matter of time when all the
other brands are gonna incorporate it into their smartphones. I wish I could
try that smartphone. I honestly would love to try it. I probably won't because
I am not gonna have access to it but I wish I could try it. What I'm thinking is
that it's gonna take a long time before all the other smartphones will be
replaced with this new era of smartphones with all those four lenses
and all the built-in gimbals. It will take a long time. It will be
certainly interesting to see the direction of the smartphone gimbals we
have right now. We might not even need them even in the future but still people
will need to know how to get those shots just with the smartphone. They're
gonna have the gimbal already incorporated in the smartphone. Right now,
those smartphone gimbals are helping us to get the visual effect effortlessly
because look at the Moza gimbal which has the Moment feature or look at the
DJI which has the Story feature where you're literally just holding the gimbal
and it moves the smartphone on its own. You just press the button and wait and
then you have the final result. You don't have to do much. You don't need to know much.
I think it's just gonna be a matter of time until the app is actually developed
on the smartphone to do the same things such as those physical giombals. How long
is it gonna take? One year, two years, three years.....couple months? Who knows....