what's going on guys after the Ronan SC and you might remember that I hate
Gimbals I love Gimbals but I just I could never find the perfect one I think
I finally found the perfect travel photography or travel vlogging gimbal
for me anyway the Ronin SC just came out I've had it for a month and I absolutely
freaking love it so we're in Ubud we're gonna explore
some locations I'm gonna film some footage on it I'm gonna talk about it
and yeah that's what's gonna happen today
zoom back in the villa with the Ronin SC please ignore this strange-looking lady
in the background and ignore any strange sounds there's just a bunch of random
sounds at this villa so ignore that we've had lots of fun at the at the
market shooting some footage we're gonna shoot more footage in this video so stay
tuned for that but I kind of want to talk about a couple things before we go
out and do that the first thing is I should mention that this is not a
sponsored video by DJI I paid full price for this I'm not being paid for this
video I just like this gimbal I actually love this gimbal in fact I had the Ronin
s and I love that gimbal as well it was just way too big and heavy to use as a
vlogger as a filmmaker sure it was probably fantastic but when you're
holding the thing out like this talking to yourself you either get really strong
where you cry like a baby and I cried and I only said if DJI came up with
another gimbal like the S but smaller and lighter that I would buy it
instantly so when I caught a news of the DJI Ronin SC I bought it in fact I think
I purchased it before like any real announcement actually happened because I
caught like a rumor and I was waiting on the website until the page went live
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about photography now back to the video the Ronin SC has obviously an app and a lot
of functionality that connects to the phone and there's things I love about it
there's things I don't love about it and then there's things I don't use so let
me talk about those super quick as I open the app so one of the things I love
about the app is the ability to do motion time-lapse so when we were in the
market I did one motion time-lapse you can set the parameters right in the app
if you're connected to the Ronin SC and you can basically create a time-lapse that
starts at one position and slowly moves down to another and that's done all
through the app even easier if your phone connects to
your camera so the Ronin SC connects to for example the canon eos r or basically
every fuji and sony camera I believe something I don't use in the app that I
probably wish I did is what they're calling active track pearl and it's kind
of like in the the drones in length of Mavic Pro if you're flying you can
create a circle draw a circle around a person or an item in your frame and then
as you fly the drone it'll keep its focus on that part so it allows you to
create really cool tracking images or in the case of the gimbal it allows you to
stay focused on your subject I think it has a lot of potential for things like
hyperlapse for example if I put the actor track onto I don't know a building
and then I move sideways or forward it would create a hyperlapse effect that
could be really cool but that being said because I'm a vlogger and not really a
filmmaker I don't hook up my phone to the camera it's just too much weight and
it's just it's just too much overall so I don't use that feature one thing that
I'm kind of soso I don't really love about the app and about the Ronin SC in
general is whenever you add a new lens or you change your lens or you change
the the balance of the gimbal you have to go in and auto correct it so once you
set up a new lens so I was shooting the 35 at the market I've switched to my 17
to 40 now when you do that after you've done that you have to go into the app
you have to click the motor parameters and you have to click Auto Tune and yeah
it doesn't take long to do it just means that if you forget your phone at home
and you're out shooting you can't switch lenses obviously the most important part
of a gimbal is is it smooth so what we're going to do right now is Greg's
here with me obviously helping and we're gonna go and take my scooter and I'm
gonna drive and we're gonna great to film and I'm gonna show you how steady
you can make certain shots so let's go do that
the road outside our village just been ripped up by construction so it's really
bumpy so we're gonna do some tests on this the first one Greg is gonna jump on
the back and he's gonna film from the back of the bumpy scooter so you can see
what it looks like
so how much cooler is my helmet than yours yeah Greg tell them it's way
cooler than mine just so you guys know we're gonna do one more shot and it's
going to be Greg off the whatever you call this thing the scooter running so
he's going to probably do two different things he'll run in front of the scooter
and I'll try to drive into him and then the other one is he'll run alongside it
just so you guys can see how it's bumpy because on a scooter it kind of works
like a natural I guess a natural gimbal almost but when you're running you're
gonna get that floppy motion of the jog so yeah let's do that now
that was so much fun as you can see the Ronin SC totally handles bumps and
bruises and a little bit of craziness we're off to a temple now so we're gonna
jump in the bus and cruise there and do some more reviewing stuff
so we are at location number three for this video that I'm rocking my sarong
looking sexy I know it and I'm yeah but the Ronin SC here and continuing things
I love things I don't love and things that don't use one thing I love about
this is a feature that I think it was probably Zune that did it first is the
locking mechanisms on the arms so that when you're changing lenses or just
balancing it you can lock everything or when you're traveling you can lock
everything so things don't bounce around a thing I don't like is down here you
have this one knob that loosens that part and it actually controls two things
it controls the slide of the camera forward or backwards and it controls
this arm this direction so controls two things and it's kind of frustrating
sometimes because you'll be trying to balance one thing and then the other
thing will slip out but that being said another thing I love about it is there's
this other little knob here that works as a guide so you can see it goes like
this and so when you set your camera up you use this lens a lot you can go in
and you can just slide this where it was and lock it there so that way if you
ever want to take your camera off you can go like that take it off and then
when you need to put it on a tripod to take a picture you can do that and you
want to switch right back on just go back to the gimbal you just go straight
up to the guiding point lock it in and again your balance straight away without
having to do anything so a lot to love a little bit to be that could be a little
bit better but overall best gimbal have ever used
my favorite feature of the whole gimbal is the simplest feature and it's
something they had on the Ronin s and it's just this trigger up front and a
lot of gimbals have this but they work different in that the trigger unlocks is
whereas this locks the gimbal so what I mean by that is if I don't have it
pressed it's free but as soon as I press it it locks it so if I'm trying to get a
really stable shot I can just lock it without having to think about anything
else I just lock in and I can do that and then I can carry on being normal
more as normal as I get so for a shot like this I want to do a dolly zoom of
this statue here I can just get it all lined up properly lock it in and move
straight into it and it'll be perfect
that's it for the video on the Ronin SC I didn't get into specs in this video
because I actually used this gimbal I'm not just like reading specs off to you
off the internet I've been using this now for almost two months or a month
since it's come out I use it every single day and I have to say and my
overall review is there's no gimbal in the world better or anything that even
comes close to be honest it's got the durability it just works
it's easy to use and best of all it's super stable so if you're looking for a
Ronin or if you're looking for a gimbal yea the Ronin SC is definitely
definitely the one again massive shout-out to Squarespace comm for
sponsoring this video head over there squarespace.com/Brendanvanson
if you want a discount on a new website and if you want to see what other gear I
use there's a link in the bio and I'll see you guys on the next episode where
I'm going to attempt to do a whole landscape photography video in one shot
I'll see you there pase pase PI peace