Since I've put together a few GoPro Hero 10 videos I've been asked a few times
if I use a gimbal and what gimbal I use, and also if you actually need a gimbal. So one of the
things I wanted to do in this video was just go through one of the reasons why you would actually
want to use a gimbal with the Hero 10 and one of the downsides of the Hero 10. So the one that I am
going to be using in this video is from INKEE it's the INKEE Falcon and this is what it looks like.
So this one comes with obviously the gimbal and you've got a little tripod here as well and it
also comes with a bag and also there's a USB cable in there too. So it's really easy to attach the
GoPro to the gimbal all you have to do is just grab your GoPro unscrew this
bit make sure you're doing it the right way
and then
in order to attach it you want to make sure that this part
is facing the front so your GoPro is going to sit on the, basically facing that way
so you're just going to attach it onto there. I hope I'm actually doing this in the right way,
I've used it so much and I, yeah but yeah this is the front
and then once you've attached it
all you have to do is just press the ‘On’ button, just press and hold this button…
make sure that you actually put it the right way up as well
so I had it facing down instead of up that's not going to work so you want
this, so you want this bit to be on the left
so that's going to be the front, let's do it again and then you're going to attach it like this
that makes more sense. So yeah don't put it upside down like I just did. So then
you just attach that there
make sure it's nice and tight so that the GoPro is not going to move around and also just make
sure that the GoPro is also straight, so you want to make sure that it's actually facing
straight and it's level and then then you're going to press the power button press and hold
and then that's going to orient it into the right position. So yeah this is the gimbal.
So you'll see that you've got these buttons down the side here so the top one is for taking a photo
and the second one is to actually record video and then the last one is to do a timelapse. So
you can press any of those buttons and you know you'll start recording, stop recording,
take a photo start timelapse and you'll know that the camera is connected because
you'll see that you've got this green light which is showing you that the connection
is established. So one of the things I have noticed though is if I were to turn off the GoPro
and I just wait a little bit it will automatically turn back on which is a
little bit strange. I don't know why that happens. So I guess if you're turning off
the GoPro you'd also have to turn off the gimbal as well. Now it's not doing it.
It's not doing it anymore… oh there we go now it's back on.
So that's, yeah, that's a little bit strange, I don't know why , I don't quite know why
it does that, sometimes it does it quicker. So I'll switch it off and then it'll switch
back on and it also jumps from video mode to photo mode so it's like photo is the default
and I'm not quite sure why that happens or how to change that so I think that's something that
I have to talk to INKEE about but essentially yeah this, I have used it a couple of times
and it does work really well and if you want to change the camera so if you want to change it
to face you then all you have to do is press the front trigger button three times and then
it’ll flip it round and then if you want to make it face forward again then just tap it twice.
Then you've obviously got the joystick which will move the camera around as well
and if you do that and the camera is facing you, let me just make the camera face me,
so if you do that whilst the camera's facing you and then you quickly want to go back
to the front and have everything centered, if you just double-tap
then that will center everything and put the camera back to being at the front. So
I'm going to go out and I'm going to show you the difference between using the gimbal
and not using gimbal especially in low light. So one of the problems with the GoPro is that
if you want to shoot in low light or you want to use ND filters because you want to use the
180-degree shutter rule then your shutter speed is going to be a lot lower so the stabilization
doesn't quite work very well, doesn't quite work very well, it doesn't work very well with the,
with a lower shutter speed so at that point that's when you need to kind of turn off this
internal stabilization for the GoPro and then just use a gimbal so. I'm going to
show you the difference between the footage with the gimbal and without the gimbal.
I hope you found the video useful and if you did do give the video a like.
Ii've dropped a link in the description to where you can actually get the gimbal
and i like it, I've used it a couple of times and I'll continue to use it when I'm using the GoPro.
The only problem is obviously if you're mounting your GoPro to something like
your helmet or yourself and you're shooting in low light then obviously you can't use a gimbal so
I don't know how you'd get around that but, yeah if you found the video useful do give
it a like and subscribe to see more videos I've created a playlist for the hero 10 and I'm still
constantly adding videos to that but thanks for watching and I'll catch you next time.