there's Kari over here the Hawk, he's out what there's a hawk yeah where you see him flying
oh there it is that's cool here he's trying to have a nice peaceful dog walk but I'm harassing
her with this camera because I'm practicing with this thing this is called the master wheels so
I'm actually controlling this camera you know if I turn it this way I go to the right or left and
over here is my tilt so I go up and down and I combine the two to try to get my framing I will
say it can be a little bit confusing at first but you know on a lot of big movies and TV show sets
this is how they operate a lot of remote heads so just trying to get comfortable with this so
that I don't suck oh crap check it out we could actually see the camera that we're using to film
right now this is the DJI Ronin 4D but notice that where the camera usually is there's a cable coming
out of it so if we follow this cable up to the camera up here by itself and right now I have it
on this telescoping monopod so check it out I can actually have this camera move upwards. It's gonna
add a little bit of depth to the shot by giving it a little bit of this vertical booming motion
also really excited to check out dji's first a zoom lens on the DL Mount 17 to 28 T3 full frame
so very wide. oh now she sees them. oh oh. There She Goes Pita's on the prowl now oh oh that
squirrel's just taunting Pita now. now the concept of separating the camera's head from the body and
connecting it with a cable has been around for a while like the Alexa M and more recently the
Sony Venice Camera in the Rialto mode made famous for Top Gun where they needed to fit some Cinema
cameras in a small cockpit so it reduces the size required for mounting the camera and also
the weight up front so you could carry the rest of the camera on your back but what makes this
4D Flex really interesting is when you do that you still maintain this three axis Gimbal and
camera control so I could still do whatever and when you're dealing with a fraction of the weight
it really opens a lot of opportunities like you could have the camera and body up here control
everything while dangling the lens way down below and getting some super low angle shots mounted on
things like the Sly pod which isn't designed to carry the entire weight of the 4D. start
finding these combinations which will give you really awesome results with really simple tools
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So here's our electric bike setup right here so we have it under slung here got a little
vibration isolator here, I don't think this is the best vibration isolator but it was just
same day delivery on Amazon Prime so... that's just attached to the super clamp which is on
The Handlebar which is quick to remove I could go overhead, the display port gets moved over to the
flex here so I can monitor the shot and I could actually do things like switch up my ND filters
just like that but of course we also have all this control over there on the wireless setup
this is the GPS module I think it mostly helps for a horizon right, yeah for Horizon is like the
big one. There is an adapter so this piece goes on right here to the hand grip, it adapts to this
cable right here for the GPS and then since most of the weight is just back here, it's so much
easier to just rig stuff when your weight's back here, instead of all of it up here. So how fast
can you get this back onto the the body. Oh so we would just go ahead and power down, Comes out like that. So then
this side, I just loosen that lining up the red dots so that's kind of cool I mean you're back to built
already when you get your z-axis back Eric's got his camera here that I said bring cameras though
oh you got it Alexa 35. each one of these memory cards is three cards and a card reader with 13
100 26 volt batteries so we had to do these oh so these are the core Helix dual voltage
so they're 26 and 14 4. that's cool oh you still got the screen protector on here I'm not taking my
screen protector off I think one of the big things we see a lot right is like people trying to do car
to cars in the city without permits this is way more stealth right yeah you can't get pulled over
for having this on your bicycle totally legal but the bike's not legal yeah this bike's actually yes
so overall really happy with the e-bike mount footage and hats off to carry for operating a
gimbal cam for the first time I'm excited to be able to get these kinds of shots with very
minimal setup my first attempt was before I got the vibration isolator you can definitely see the
roughness of the road but I like the perspectives you were able to get I did also experiment with
the motorcycle and it was great being able to hit those high speeds but the V-twin engine on the
Harley is just very shaky so even at a stand so so I think we're just on the wrong platform here
but for now I think the e-bike with the vibration isolator is a pretty good combination and here I
actually didn't have a separate operator filming carry I basically used active track where I just
tell the camera where to compose Carrie and I can just focus on riding around and positioning the
camera where I want it and of course if you're just trying to film off the side of the car like
we've done in the past that's super easy cool build to just roll down your window wherever
and be able to just attach a few suction cups on and then Peter gets to comfortably operate
from inside the vehicle outside of the wind so this scene here is where I was telling you
about today's sponsor but turns out they take longer than other brands to approve sponsorship
segments and then bargo's lifting and I just want to post this video so I'm making some nice
late night edits to go unsponsored on this video but on the bright side of making poor financial
choices I thought the shot looks pretty cool and notice as we pick up speed The Horizon does tilt
a little bit because we did not use the GPS unit here and I could fix it in post pretty easily but
throughout this entire video we are not doing any sort of post stabilization or Horizon leveling in
post just so you can see what the camera is doing on the gimbal all right how did this footage look
Carrie's driving right there and there's the setup and I'm kind of controlling it right here
now this is a backpack that pgy Tech makes and it's specifically designed for this camera see
how we have that base plate down there locks into here gotta reroute this through that top pocket
and reattach it there's still some open pockets if you want to store things like your lenses or maybe
your grips but we can go ahead and close this up now and then if you look on the side of the flex
right here we can go ahead and just hand thread this on there's USBC ports right there which we
can plug in and that is basically our hand grip adapter so now we can go ahead and take this off
basically left with a backpack and I have all my controls that I need right here so there's also a
cold shoe Mount right here that I could attach the monitor to the one downside of using it like this
is that you do lose that z-axis stabilization but as long as you're careful with your steps and you
do that ninja walk then you could generally get away with some pretty smooth shots I was testing
this setup out over at our coffee shop while they were getting ready to open up for the morning but
it was very nice in times like that where I could get into really tight places now I also didn't
have to worry about my arms burning after a few minutes definitely see this being really useful
for someone that uses the Ronin 4D for Live Events so handheld setup and backpack mode definitely a
good option to have something that's really basic but also very useful is just a 3 8 inch
adapter to essentially like a lifestyle stand a baby pen go ahead and throw that on so yeah
I just got the camera on the bag but all the way up there check that out I'm loving how easy it
is to get a camera 10 15 feet in the air and still having full control over it I think we've all been
there where the ideal camera placement is up high but our fluid head tripods only go up to five six
feet high so then you start pulling out ladders and doing sketchy stuff to try to figure out how
to get the camera up there but here it's literally just throwing on a stand and light stands go way
higher than tripods so easy day so here's the flex Mount itself this is basically the camera
comes off the 4D and you just attach it like that secures it and when you see that little red right
there that's a safety so it can't accidentally Come Undone down below we have the quarter 20 and
3 8 inch and I have noticed that it is a little bit recessed in this version at least maybe that's
just because it's a pre-production version but as long as your screws are reasonably long it
shouldn't be a problem one thing I do wish is if this cable was detachable so whenever I'm trying
to attach it to things like this I could pull off the plug spin it on right now I have it attached
to this suction cup thing got this off Amazon Prime same thing a delivery again so I'm going
to mount it on here and one of the things that's important to consider is where this cable comes
at us so the cable is forward so in this case I'll go ahead and just make the front forward
so one of my favorite shots of all time is Children of Men where they have that
wonder inside of the vehicle and it's like looking around at everybody shot by chivo highly recommend
watching that if you haven't yet they have this really extravagant setup to have the camera do
that motion and get those shots this I'm kind of thinking could give us a low budget version of
that so there is a power button here which is nice which also doubles as a record button so let's
power this thing up here now we are recording off of the 4D and we have the zoom lens on here so the
reason why I was saying that the cable placement is important is because this is a Ford right here
where we see the cable and I do have the ability to turn all the way over here behind itself and
I could even go around over to Dylan so about 270 degrees but this is as far left as I can go
Center back out so we're here again and then on the right it's the same type of deal I could go
to the right to Dylan come back to me and if you go all the way 270 degrees to carry but I can't
make a full rotation that's my limit again there so this gimbal itself does not have the ability
ability to do a infinite 360 pan here I can still look up and down now that does change depending on
what kind of lens you have set up there sometimes the lidar does bump but if you're not using lidar
then that's usually not a problem and this is because we're in under slug mode it's really handy
having just the built-in NDS so when I'm back here in the dark I can just go ahead and line things up
and if we need to go and look outside then we can expose for that with an ND Zoom capability
is pretty awesome though it feels definitely like secret agent status now that we have this camera
set up though we just need some really crazy action to happen can I get a Mexican pizza
could I also do a Mexican pizza so two oh one Mexican pizza all right two Mexican pizzas I
hope they come with lots of Fire Sauce oh yeah don't definitely can't forget the Fire Sauce
I think that you got some fire sauce
this just might be the scene that tops the children of menshot actually so this right
here is your joystick so go ahead and just kind of pan around and look around yeah there you go
huh yeah so there's a box around you right now so if you want the focus to come to you you actually
press that button right there yeah press it and it'll come to you oh okay yeah and then you can
rotate around look around yeah kind of cool huh pretty easy right yeah surprisingly easy and that
is how you film a drive-through with a cinema camera on a gimbal full frame 17 mil in prores
all right that's a lot of data now here giving you I think it could also be interesting on a monopod
and being used as a pole camp but depending on the way you have it mounted may have some limitations
on its range of motion so right now it's upright good range of motion here now if I go straight out
like this I do have pretty limited pan capability so this is my far left and far right and if you
go completely inverted you have your pan range back do you basically have the least amount of
range when you're straight out like this and you start getting it back right when you're
about like maybe 45 degrees ish so it's kind of cool about this monopod is that I can adjust my
angle right here or if you're on a ball head you could do that as well so now even if the sticks
mounted this way as far as the gimbal is concerned it's mounted upright so I have that full range so
the 4D fully set up with the new zoom lens which is 12.35 pounds so this is kind of our Baseline
fully set up handles remove the head so we line up the red lock it in and this is the display cable
so this is optional but this will relocate the display cable to up here line this up relocate
these hand grips from the camera body and if you want to bring the monitor along with it you do
need tools for this part so usually it's attached right here so it comes out the side and hooks on
like that but we relocate that to the bottom take this and stick this in the new display port this
doesn't quite fit on the scale how do I weigh this thing here I'll just take off the handles
and put it on like 6.6 pounds so about half the weight right there apparently that's uh how much
Carrie weighed when she was a newborn that's kind of crazy to think about six pounds we used to be
that light let's say you're mounting this on the side of a car or whatever ever you don't
need the monitor or handles there so if we strip that off that's 4.5 pounds pull off the lidar lens
is definitely one of the heavier components but that's understandable because it's a zoom lens
so we have our DL primes this is the 24. it is at 3.6 pounds just realized I forgot to take off the
lidar's counterweight so we could shave a little more off but I'm really excited to see that DJI
has put out a zoom lens on the DL Mount definitely helps fill that Gap in the wide angle range from
17 to 28 because with the DL mounts there's the 2435 and 50. and there is a wider one but that
is not covering full frame but this is where I plead to DJI to give us a mid-range zoom lens
and this is another thing that's new this is the L Mount so DJI has joined that L Mount Alliance
that's cool because ever since Panasonic came out with the s52 we've really been utilizing these L
Mount lenses these are all prime pretty similar in size and weight advantage of these are that
these are all F 1.8 instead of the F 2.8 we get out of dji's lenses and as soon as I mount it on
it seems like the camera recognizes it and has full control over it and works well with this
lidar even for that auto focus definitely happy to see that the compatible lens lineup is growing
for this which is obviously super important for a pro level camera and in the box with the flex
also is this they call this the pan axis lock so apparently if we want to mount a large lens
like a cinema lens obviously it's not going to fit within this gimbal itself but if we want to put it
on a tripod this here has some quarter 20s down here so I guess you attach this onto the tripod
and the lens itself would have a lens support which you would also attach to the tripod so
that's how you would attach a huge lens onto here um so not exactly sure what the pricing
on this Flex cable is but I'll put it right here once I find out and yeah right it's time for some
overall thoughts now if there's one thing that we have to give DJI credit for it's that they
make really complex advanced technology very easy to use for example drones right there are cameras
that are stabilized on a Gimbal and oh yeah they fly and kids can operate it it's like hey Grandpa
look what I can do and me personally I feel like the most impressive thing about this Ronin 4D
is it makes some complicated stuff very easy for example think about any camera that you want and
you want to put it on a gimbal have it stabilized and also have wireless control over that gimbal
so you can aim the camera you also want wireless video so you can monitor what you're shooting and
also Wireless Focus right that's quite a few steps right you got to get the camera on the Gimbal and
you got to figure out how to get a wireless video signal on there so maybe attach a teradx you got
to figure out how to rig it on there where it's not in the way and then maybe SDI or HDMI connect
that video signal out of it and also powering the Tarot deck maybe a two pin limo if your camera
has or if it doesn't maybe you need a d-tap your camera doesn't have a d-tap then you gotta attach
a v-mount somewhere to have that DTaP power and then you have to rig it onto the cage which now
of course your camera needs a cage if it hasn't already because you also need rails so you could
attach a wireless Focus unit Mount that on figure out how to power that as well maybe you only have
one d-tap you got to split that out you have to pair it with the hand unit make sure the
hand unit has power and you have to calibrate the lens so it rotates just enough and hopefully your
lens has hard stops I mean it's a process right but here literally I just have to push the power
button to turn on the camera and then the power button to turn on the wireless receiver and then
everything kind of connects itself automatically and now I have gimbal control with this joystick
I have wireless video with great range and also I have a focus control right here on this wheel and
yes there are limitations like how big of a lens can you put on here while maintaining that gimbal
control and what kind of hand unit can you use to focus this but if your shoot can work within
these parameters there's just not an easier way to get all this working and set up like this it's all
very well integrated and I think when this camera first came out there's a lot of mixed feelings
there's a lot of us going like what the hell there's also a lot of people going what the hell
now I've heard the theories out there that this might be too much of a niche camera or this is
going to be the next abandoned camera but honestly if I were to bet I think there's more impressive
things on here than there are quirks so because of that I I think there's a future here and
especially with this Flex cable it just expands on the camera that we've already had now do I
think there's room for improvement yeah I think it'd be nice to have the readout speed of the
sensor could be a little faster with that rolling shutter but overall there's a lot of things that
this camera can do that is legitimately useful you know like the lidar went manual focusing and
look the tripod that this camera is on right now is just some super lightweight travel tripod and
it's essentially now been converted into a fluid head it's hard not to be impressed with this thing
but anyways that's my opinion let me know down there in the the comments what your thoughts are
let me go ahead and pull up some comments from the last 4D video that we made have to admit this is
one of the most Innovative cameras I've seen in a long time especially with that mount swapping
system the price point will be interesting to hear but I'm curious about how it'll be in a real shoot
is it overly gimmicky or will it provide needed tools excited to see where this thing goes Frank
says after watching the a74 release I truly admire how DJI is revolutionizing the cinema camera and I
do believe that they'll one day dominate the pro consumer Market you know what they really need
to do give me a ronin 4D mini because DJI has the little pocket too which is a little action camera
on a gimbal right cool and then this up here as a pro camera I need something in the Middle come
on DJI please Seth says we should step back and realize how insanely Advanced this is imagine
if someone from 2010 could watch this video my mind was blown repeatedly but I would say that
pretty much wraps it up for this video let me know in the comments what you think about this
Flex system this is add more capability does this kind of give you more ideas on things you can do
with it or is this a gimmick making the gimmick camera a super gimmick all right that's it bye