Hey guys I'm Tom, this is my buddy Josh Pavano, and today we are gonna be talking
about a piece of camera gear that you might be interested in Josh brought me
the Ronin s by DJI Josh you bought this probably six to eight months ago and you
don't use it now I don't use it so I use I've used it twice so what we're gonna
do is I'm gonna show you guys just like brief unboxing and then josh is gonna
kind of monitor me setting it up and we're gonna see if if the juice is worth
the squeeze in getting a DSLR camera gimbal cool we have an overhead setup so
you guys are going to see the the entire layout of us opening and showing you
exactly what comes in the Ronin s I'm stoked about this dude it is a pretty
sweet case what it did oh and there's there's instructions yes a guide but
it's but you're my god you're my guide for this ride so we're gonna leave those
over there for now if I had to make a pro tip if you do buy one just go on the
internet because those guys are a pain to read through yeah it's definitely
it's definitely a great book interesting I really give you the visuals that you
need to QuickStart guide and it's nearly a hundred pages long so we're gonna find
some good two minute videos two minute youtuber videos throw this off to the
side so it comes in a locking phone case which is dope
I like this everything's got its nice little prepackaged area I'm assuming a
tripod right Oh tripod little case this is cool what is
this just cables alright holds cable does it come with a pen here is that you
that's me okay yeah because because you need to screw
in the bolts oh this looks like a nightmare already so the penny is for me
because I don't want to carry around a screwdriver charging brick charging I
don't know what things are so if you're if you if you see me pulling something
out you're like you might not wanna do that ya know you can pull it out
whatever so this is like the grass so that's your grip and batter this is the
actual battery yeah okay cool you got a test light so right now we're running at
three bars out of four yeah so when you first get it obviously it's dead and
they tell you to charge that first before you do anything before you're
doing anything Christ comfortable I dig this like non-slip this is like the
speed plate yeah it goes on the top part there cool it's gonna help you balance
and and also tell where the where your camera should be all the time
no and you'll see if you go through setup here it's important to pay
attention like I've actually marked mine up yep this is the case is really nice
though I dig that it's like compartmentalized and the locking
mechanism alright but it's not small no and this this all comes preassembled
like when you that's how it comes doesn't you open it yeah so it's I mean
for the most parts like three pieces people complain a lot about this part of
it which is that you need to put it back together just like this so you need to
like basically take apart your settings so nobody making a thing otherwise you
leave it out and keep your settings is that what well you see people they'll
literally just leave their tripod in doubt because yeah it's more venting you
to redo it every time but let's say you're traveling you're like you spent a
lot of money on this thing and you don't if you don't want to just leave it
hanging out okay cool you know you're you're I mean you're like my my
supervisor on this okay so once we have a base at least I'll be able to and then
this just slides in pin first you got to unlock it oh there's more to it it's
cool I mean just from feel of it so it feels legit right like you feel how it's
goofy it's worth the expense because of how like well put together it is like I
have no complaints when it comes to it's built like it's built it's so it's all
metal there's no little to no plastic parts if any of it yeah this does look
like a nightmare though like I'm gonna be honest with you like now what am i
doing so if you I go I don't have my camera we're gonna be doing your camera
cool and your camera of choice is a Lumix G H 5 yeah is the so I'm assuming
in this little pouch we're gonna use her name is this guy right so you have to
literally balance this thing exactly how you're gonna use it so if you're gonna
throw my on top of it you got to put the
microphone on top if you're gonna have your your screen out you have to have
the screen out if you want the lens cap off the lens caps got to be off if you
want it to be zoomed in you have to have a zoomed in once it's on there you can't
really touch it because it's just gonna go off balance cool so that's that's
kind of a issue is like once it's on it's always so this comes with a few
different pieces here so USBC - oh well this is proprietary then right I don't
even know it's just this what is this a light I think this is for certain
cameras that need like a bluetooth but I'm not so sure honestly that's weird
but I use the big plate obviously for this bad boy because it slides right in
sure again on the lock lock and unlock label lock and unlock yep it's pretty
simple this thing works on three different tilts it's this three axis
yeah three axis is I don't know acts I AXYZ actually definitely access isn't
but I don't know exactly the names you have this going up and down you have
this going in and out thoughtfully shut and then you have this going in and out
okay so at all your your while you're balancing your you're definitely
balancing but you're also making room for your camera to do full path full
full spins or full pans right yeah usually I put this guy on first I'm
gonna be your purchase like what's this right here
so that stabilizes the front like 20 how long your lens is so it'll stick through
the front here okay like this just to keep your lens okay yeah so you're just
finding you're just getting it on there prior to like there's no there's no
preset there's no way to know yeah okay there's no way to know you just
literally have to put it on and be like oh that looks that looks good and then
you'd make like I guess like okay like this you know this looks good yeah okay
I mean you're like clearly this is off down so the first thing that you do
you're doing weight and balance prior to even turning anything on it yeah it
doesn't auto bounce no that's super funny so once you once you balance it so
you have to get it so that it's balanced and basically what happens is I mean we
can go through it it's a long process of this but
your your onions but come on baby basically what you want to happen is
just thing to come straight this part took about I'd say three to five minutes
so what you want to happen at the end of the balance is this to be like this and
you'll be able to put your camera anywhere and it just stays so that's the
goal so now you just tinker like until you
get it this part of the balance also took another three to five minutes
needless to say it wasn't a quick setup this to me is like pretty solid now you
can screen record this if you want yeah connector Ronin Bluetooth this off I got
to turn it on okay so it's just that same power button you check that oh yeah
so now it connects it connects really easily okay and that's gonna say it's in
here and then you just go to your configuration settings more balance test
and it'll tell me if I did a crappy job which it's going to say I did but we'll
see it doesn't look that bad yeah you think so but then I'll be like you're
12% off really yeah it's pretty precise Oh excellent excellent excellent so I
did good good boy I'll get put again like okay this is a again third time
I've used this things notes and the reason I wanted it was because I thought
I really need this smooth like I'm weddings and duct it up it up this will
still get yeah you can update as well all the things but system calibration is
complete yeah good to go and now you're good and you know just to run through
this app a little bit like I haven't used too much of it but you can actually
like control different like there's if you go and look at someone who does
reviews like one click is one thing then two clicks and three clicks and you can
set different things based on what you want so you can personalize all the
settings like as far as the app goes it's almost like insane the amount that
go and you can actually look at the sensitivity so in this case you're
looking at like what's the speed how fast can you go there's sport mode like
if you double click it goes into sport mode where it like whips weight really
quick and I throw I like to keep it in sports mode because then it's like very
responsive whereas when you go like this it definitely has like a
um yeah so I mean you have a ton of options here and in here you can also
choose like to create and when you do that you can do time lapses you can do
motion lapses you can track so you can pick points and it will like go to just
like a drum in all fairness this is its beautiful
piece of equipment if you're gonna get into stock and do stuff like that it is
honestly a ridiculously useful piece of equipment if you're gonna use it I'm
glad that you did the setup cuz right off the bat I don't think I would have
had the patience to do it especially just kind of jumping in but this what
I'll do I'll give you the link to the video that I watch and I'll throw it
down and you put it down below because people remaining for this to be like cuz
I look like a fool putting it together but that's how you feel the first thing
I this isn't locked right here what's this lock or is that lock no it's locked
yeah it is locked yeah Josh and I spent some time playing
around with the gimbal and in all fairness I loved it I thought it's a
great piece of equipment very smooth easy to handle and I could totally see
myself getting one like most supplemental gear in the videography
realm it comes down to are you gonna learn and use that gear that you buy
that's a decision that you have to make for yourself but as far as the gimbal
goes I can see it being worth the money so what I like about this is the
absolute smoothness and speed because you can set your frame rate and really I
mean it is honestly so precise yeah it's heavy that really is heavy do you have
to be in shape this is this is different you said two clicks brings it back
Center yeah and that's not a center - okay cool and then so crazy I like it
though I like no I mean it like I said it's a fabulous piece of it there's a
lock feature like it almost bought almost butter on an extra pack but
hopefully this helps you guys if you're in the market for a DJI Ronin s just to
show you what it comes with a little bit of the process of setting it up and
dress showing us some of the features and and how it works
in a practical environment as as a videographer
it's cool I really like it i think for the money and knowing some of the other
companies that are currently in damar it it might be worth venturing and
trying to find some of those videos and checking out what those come with and
how people like them and truthfully how intuitive their apps are compared with
the app is great the pinyon apps for products like this or ideal some
products great but it's just you better be willing to use it and learn it
exactly especially for the money spent so thank you guys for watching again
Josh josh has his own channel here on YouTube yeah I I do videos on that I do
travel videos and travel tutorials mostly but now I'm breaking into doing a
new youtube series called super awesome wicked kind which we'll be releasing
soon yeah so that should be coming out and um yeah make sure you guys hit like
and subscribe if you haven't already and I will see you in the next video hey do
this this guy he'll he bounces and I'm like that and if smoother than glass