This is the new feiyutech scorp mini. I'm going to show you how to set it up and balance it and
then i'm going to give you a quick review of what I think of this gimbal. And finally show
you some test footage shot on this feiyutech scorp. The very first thing to remember before
setting up and balancing are these three secrets: When you're balancing the feiyu scorp you want to
imagine that the center of gravity is in line with the axises of these three motors. And i'll get
to that in a second. The second thing to remember is that you will learn how to balance this gimbal
it can be a little frustrating at first if you've never balanced gimbals, but
I promise you that you will learn how to do it. And then the third thing is once
you have properly balanced the gimbal just take note of all of the markings on each of
the arms and the motors put them in the note section of your phone so that when you take off
the camera or you switch your lens or you put on a new type of camera that has a different weight,
you can just refer back to your notes and remember exactly where all the markings were,
and that way you don't really need to balance it. You just revert back to those markings.
The first thing you're going to do is fully charge the scorp gimbal. You just plug in a usb-c cable.
It has fast charging it should only take an hour and a half to two hours. You're going to take
your little accessories pack pull out the metal screw, and attach the base plate to the camera.
I've already done it here, the base plate does come with a little wrench to attach it,
and just remember that you have this little hole which is a lens support hole, facing the front of
the camera. Balancing, okay so the first thing you want to do is, once you have your tripod attached,
your feiyutech gimbal fully charged is, you want to unlock the motors. The scorp m gimbal's motors
come locked so that it doesn't get damaged while it's being shipped. With the gimbal with
the trigger pointing forward and the oled screen pointing towards me, there is a motor on the back
called the roll motor. I'm going to flip down this little metallic lock, and now you can see that
it rolls like this. I'm going to put it so this bar is parallel with the ground
and then i'm going to lock it in place like that. Then i'm going to take the tilt motor which is
the motor that's on my right, your left, unlock that and then you should see that this is also
fully able to move. So this is the first one we're going to adjust.
Take your camera. I'm using this pentax camera you can use this with
a smartphone an action camera a compact camera and even small mirrorless cameras. There are adapters
for all of those types. I'm going to use this one for now. You're going to take this little knob on
the bottom base plate and screw it open all the way you're going to slide in the camera like so.
And you're just going to tighten it up. And make sure it's locked.
And then what you also want to do is take this little back latch, put it to
the unlocked, and try to get like I said, the center of gravity of the camera
as far in line with the axis of this motor. So imagine there's a little line running out
of the axis of this motor, you want to get the center of gravity of the camera the base plate
as much as you can, in line with that. So I don't want this way over here. I want it it's pretty
much as close as I can to here, leaving Maybe like a millimeter, or you know, a centimeter. Now i'm
going to lock this latch back. Okay so once you have that back lock latched, the first thing we're
going to do is adjust the tilt motor. So what I want to do is point the lens towards the ceiling,
and as you can see when i'm putting the lens towards the ceiling, the camera is rotating that
way, it's falling forward so what that means is that there's too much weight on this side of the
axis of this motor. So just imagine it like you know a balancing board. It should lay level flat,
but it's not, there's too much weight going that way, so what I need to do is unscrew here where
you see the lock, which is a new type of locking system which I love. And you point it towards the
ceiling. And so it's falling too much that way. So that means I need to go this way, that means
I need to get the weight more in line, so that is actually perfect, you just need to make micro
adjustments, once the lens will remain pointing towards the ceiling, when I let go that means it's
perfectly balanced on this motor. So now I just tighten up this little screw here. And there it is
now we want to point the lens forward, and you can see that again it's falling this way, so what that
means is that I have too much weight again, going this way. I'm going to loosen this up,
and remember since it's falling forward, that means I need to push the weight back,
just ever so slightly. Maybe something like that. No not enough. I'm going to push it back a little
bit more, and tighten it. And i'm not going to get it perfect for the purpose of this video.
Forward a little bit. More it's just micro micro adjustments to balance it. There we go. Micro
micro adjustments. The fraction of a millimeter will adjust the balance. So now you can see that
the lens remains pointing forward. So the next motor that I want to balance is the roll motor.
So that's the one that's on the back here. So now i'm going to unlock that one, and you can see what
happens when I let go. The weight is pulling the camera this way. Let me show it from this side.
So imagine there's a line running through. It's going too far that way so just like we
did with the others, I need to loosen this one push the weight back this side tighten it up.
And that's pretty darn good. So if I hold it this way, it goes back a little bit. But it's
it's pretty centered now. The last one is usually the most difficult it's the pan
motor. So what you want to do is hold the gimbal parallel with your table or floor. And then i'm
going to gently unlock. It just be careful because when you lock it it can wildly flip
around. So i'm going to unlock it. And now if I point it towards you, you can see that
the gimbal or the camera rather is going that way. So all I need to do
is loosen it up, and you guessed it, push the weight this way. So again just micro micro
micro. I'm going to re-tighten it let's see if that works. And that's perfect. So now the gimbal
should be reasonably balanced. So that when you point it in any direction, it should stay
there. Again I didn't do this 100 perfect for this video. But as you can see if I point it down here
the camera is staying pointed to where I faced it. So that is a balanced gimbal. And
you want to make sure that it's balanced, because you'll save your motors from any wear and tear,
you'll save your battery life, and you'll also get smoother footage. Before I go any further, if
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every question within 48 to 72 hours. So the feiyu tech scorp mini, it's about the same
size and has some of the same features as the zhiyun crane m2, but there are really two things
that set it apart in my opinion. The first is the price it's only about 199 dollars or 199 euros
if you buy it from the kickstarter link. And i'll put that link in the description below.
The second thing and I just think the most incredible thing about this gimbal
is this lcd touch screen. This makes it so much easier to navigate through all of the menus
through all of the modes. While you're out shooting if you're a cinematographer
a videographer a travel vlogger, you know that when you're out there in the busy environment
shooting creating your videos you don't want to be fiddling through all of the settings with a scroll
wheel or something like that. Or you don't even want to have to pull up your phone and connect it
to mess with all the settings. You just won't be able to do it through the touchscreen.
That to me is one of the best features about this scorp gimbal. It's super lightweight,
the battery life is amazing it's up to 13 hours, it only takes a couple of hours to charge it, and
it has all of these buttons and functions right at your fingertips to make it very easy to shoot.
After we've balanced it I just want to turn it on by holding the power button here at the front
for a couple seconds, and the gimbal will come on. And the very first thing you want to do is
auto tune or auto calibrate the motor. So i'm just going to click motor power and click auto
tune and click start tuning let it sit there. It's gonna wiggle around and vibrate. It's basically
just testing the weight of the camera so that you'll have the smoothest shooting possible.
So let's talk about some of the basic modes. First is pan-follow. And this is usually the one that I
use the most. So with pan-follow when you pan to the left or pan to the right the camera follows.
If I tilt down or tilt up the lens stays pointing forward. Same with if I roll to the right or roll
to the left. If I push the m button on the back of the touchscreen, or I can actually touch the
touchscreen, also I can change to lock mode. So with lock mode the camera stays pointing the
direction no matter how you move the gimbal. So if I pan tilt roll you can see that the camera always
faces the direction it was in. And then I can also go into pan-tilt-follow. So
you guessed it, follows on my pans, but it also follows on my tilts. There's also one called fpv,
or you know first person view. This one follows in all directions, even roll. What I think
is a really cool feature of this gimbal is the portrait mode. So if I double tap the function
button on the left side of the screen, the camera goes into the portrait mode. With social media you
know if you want to shoot something for tick tock or for instagram, i'm actually shooting
vertically now this is a huge huge benefit to this gimbal. And when you're shooting like this you can
actually hold the scorpion tail or the handle to get you know really smooth footage for instagram
stories or reels or tick tock. If I connect the feiyu scorp mini app on my phone, then I can get
all sorts of cool things like, you know, panoramas, hyperlapses. If I want to shoot footage
of the night sky I can do all of that through the app. The app has a really great interface.
Probably the best gimbal app i've actually seen. It's really intuitive and easy to use. So you
could also use this as a tripod for example. So you can point it any direction you want,
you know set it on auto timer, run away and get your shot. If you ever find that you want
to return the gimbal back to center, just pull the trigger twice. And if you are a vlogger and
you want to shoot some selfie stuff, you can triple tap the trigger. And now I can shoot
in selfie mode. This is great. You can also notice that at the front there is a usb-c connector,
you can connect it to your camera. And then you can control all of your
camera's functionality. Like iso, aperture, etc. Through this oled screen at the front,
and then you can also go into the settings and decide what you want to use this wheel for you.
Could connect a follow-focus motor to your lens through this port here at the front and then
pull focus with this. Or I can use this wheel to adjust things like the tilt the pan and the roll.
Let's go outside and look at some test footage. I'm going to attach my iphone and
i'm going to run around, i'm going to walk and run around, and i'll show you the stabilization
of this gimbal. This is walking up some stairs at a normal pace, with my iphone on the gimbal,
and then next i'm going to run up the stairs as fast as I can, and you can see how good of a job
the gimbal does with stabilizing the footage, because here I am running up the same stairs
with no gimbal, no stabilization at all, and you can really see the difference. So there you have
it. This gimbal for only 199 dollars, I mean it's a steal you can take this thing in your backpack,
you can take it on the airplane, you can take it with you when you're going down to the beach.
When you're traveling overall I think this might be my go-to gimbal for when i'm on the move and
I don't need to support, you know a big heavy camera, if I just want to use a compact camera
a mirrorless camera or my smartphone or action cam then this is the gimbal to go with.