what's happening everyone my name is alex and welcome back in today's video we're
checking out the latest 3-axis gimbal for action cameras from hohen called the ice teddy pro 4.
so you can use this gimbal with most action cameras available on the market for example
i've tried the castle brave eight i've tried it the camp arc action camera and a couple
of gopros now if you do use this wooden gopro you get a bit more functionality because this kind of
acts as a remote control for your gopro so you can start and stop recordings right from the
gimbal you can also switch modes and so on however if you are not using it to the gopro you don't get
that extra functionality but as i said you can use this with any action camera available on the
market or with most action cameras available on the market the gimbal is also splash resistant
that means that if it rains you can still use it and film around all day because most action
cameras these days are also water resistant so you can just go in the rain and keep filming without
any issues now of course you're not gonna be able to take this in a swimming pool but if it just
rains it should be fine for filming then inside it we also have a 3600 milliamp hour battery and on
one charge you can typically get about 14 hours of usage now if you are charging the camera from
it because you can also do that of course you're gonna get a bit less but overall this will last an
entire day of filming without any issues and that brings us to what comes in the box so the gimbal
comes in a good looking box and inside the box you're gonna find a carrying pouch for the gimbal
i find that very useful because this you can have the gimbal in that carrying pouch put it in
your bag and the gimbal is not gonna get damaged inside the box there is also a user manual however
the gimbal is super simple to use and aside from that you're gonna find three cables so you can use
those cables to charge the camera from the gimbal because we all know that action cameras don't get
the best battery life but with this you can plug in the camera directly into the gimbal and you're
not gonna be running out of power now that depends on what side that action camera has the charging
port some action cameras may have the charging port on the wrong side and then you're not gonna
be able to charge them so it really depends on what action camera you are using and lastly inside
the box you're also gonna find this little plastic tripod so you can basically mount the gimbal on
any surface well almost on any surface so the button there we have a quarter inch screw hole
and we have another quarter inch screw hole on the side so if you have a tripod for example you
could mount the gimbal on top of that um tripod or any other tripod that's using a quarter inch
screw the gimbal itself is mostly made out of plastic however on the back here we have
this rubbery grip so it makes the gimbal more comfortable to hold now what's different than
most action camera gimbals that i've tried in the past or all action camera gimbals that i've tried
in the past is the quick release buckle for the actual action camera so now it only takes a couple
of seconds to put on an action camera or remove an action camera i haven't actually seen this system
on any other gimbal before so very very useful because now it takes so little time to actually
put on the action camera and remove the action camera other than that we have most of the buttons
on this side here of course you have a little joystick if you want to move the gimbal left right
up or down you can do that and as i mentioned earlier if you do use this with a gopro then
you can start and stop the recordings right from that button on the gimbal and yes this could come
in handy mostly if you're doing like a motion time lapse and talking about motion and time lapses so
the gimbal has wi-fi and bluetooth connectivity and you can actually connect to the gimbal with
your phone and you can select how you want to do one of those motion time lapses for example
the app is available in the google play store or the app store i personally tried this wooden
iphone so i got the app from the app store and the app is super simple to use it takes a couple
of seconds to connect to it and once connected you can basically control the gimbal right from your
smartphone so you don't actually have to touch the gimbal itself you can do pretty much everything
from the phone itself okay so gopros have the best ime stabilization from all action cameras
and in many cases yes you don't actually need a gimbal with a gopro but let's be real not everyone
wants to spend like five six hundred dollars on a gopro so next i want to show you three recordings
that i've done with the more regular action camera like the castle brave eight so one of
the recordings is using the camera with the gimbal and without imi stabilization one using the camera
just by itself with the image stabilization built in and one using the camera with the
image stabilization and the gimbal so let's check out those recordings just so you can see how the
gimbal does if you are moving basically okay so for this test today castle brave 8 i have
the imi stabilization turned off on the camera and i'm only using the gimbal and once again
recording in 4k at 30 frames per second so now i'm walking normally i'm also gonna start running
just so you can see how on the video quality would be if you'd be to turn off the image stabilization
on the action camera and just use the gimbal next we're gonna do the same thing but without the
gimbal okay so for this test day castle brave 8 i've turned on the imi stabilization on the
camera once again recording in 4k 30 frames per second and i'm holding the camera in my hand and
once again i am walking fairly slow and we're gonna start running just so you can see how the
camera does compared to the camera with the gimbal so yeah this is the castle bravate without the
gimbal and the image stabilization on and i might as well do the same test to the imi stabilization
on and of course with the gimbal so the camera is on the gimbal and we have the image stabilization
on and also using the gimbal so i'm gonna walk uh fairly slow now but we're gonna start running
about here just so you can see the difference in between those recordings so yeah with the gimbal
and with the image stabilization turned on so aside from being able to make your footage look
steadier this can also rotate 600 degrees this is more than any other gimbal so check this out
so i'm gonna hold this keep holding it and it still rotates very unique i haven't actually
seen this on any gimbal before most of them do just under 360 degrees well this one rotates like
a time and a half basically over on its axis so very impressive i'm gonna say quite quite unique
um maybe so yeah this is the isteady pro 4 a very unique gimbal basically an upgrade from everything
else that's available on the market for action cameras because after we started seeing gimbals
for action cameras about three four years ago things kind of slowed down and we haven't actually
got any upgrades or any new features well this one kind of gets new features finally something
new for an action camera gimbal so there you have it this is the ice teddy pro 4. alright
guys hopefully this video was useful thanks for watching and i'll see you guys in the next one