Ahoj! Which one is right for you? DJI Osmo Mobile 3 vlogging set up or kit or Zhiyun Smooth
4 vlogging set up or kit? They are both excellent, they are very good, everything and all that,
but at the same time they are very different. Which one is right for you?
And if you are new here, welcome. My name is Zdenka Darula. I create photo and video tutorials, tech reviews
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subscribing. This gimbal, DJI Osmo Mobile 3 I bought myself. This Zhiyun Smooth 4 gimbal
was sent to me by Moment which make these amazing, beautiful, yummy, smartphone lenses.
And I was studying those gimbals for a week, playing with them, trying to figure them out,
almost took them apart. I wanted to find out which one would be better for me and then
I started thinking about you. Which one would I recommend to you? Which one is better for
you? We are all different. Have different filming styles, different expectations. Some
of you are far advanced, others are beginners. We are simply all so different. All these
products here are excellent, they are good, there is nothing really bad here. You need
to pick though, which one will work for you. So here are all the differences between those
2 gimbals, between those 2 gimbal filming kits and set ups. Here is what I think. Let’s
start with my phone. It’s Samsung Galaxy S10 plus. It’s not a light phone, it’s
not a small phone. Its’ pretty big one and it’s quite heavy. Both gimbals have no problem
fitting and balancing my phone. What I like on Osmo 3 is that the ports are not covered
like on Smooth 4. The design is simply different. I find the balancing process pretty much the
same and easy with both. DJI Osmo Mobile 3 is smaller gimbal which can fold so it is
way easier to carry around. The downside to this gimbal is the fact that the motors are
not super strong. So if you want to use heavy lenses, I do have lens here. It is not the
heaviest one. It is quite heavy though. Then you will hear little vibration sound coming
out from the motors. That means that the set up is way too heavy and you are working your
gimbal way too hard. I don’t know what it is going to do to those motors down the road,
I hear it tiny bit too with this anamorphic lens. On the other hand, because the ports
are not covered, I can easily attach external microphone if I want to. Let’s look at the
other gimbal. Balancing is very easy as well. Unfortunately here the ports are covered so
I cannot external microphone even if I move the microphone little bit to the left. Still
making sure it is balanced properly. The only way I could add the microphone is if I would
use some sort of a counterweight so I could move the phone even further left. This gimbal
has very strong motors. It reacts very fast. It has no problem working my phone. And it
doesn’t have any problem even adding extra lenses. I just add Moment counterweight, move
the phone to the left to balance it properly. If you see how far I moved it, I could even
add heavier phone no problem. Now that the phone is moved, I could also add microphone
if I wanted to film myself here and there. The downside to this gimbal though is that
it doesn’t fold and is bigger. It might be a bit harder to carry around. Let’s turn
both gimbals on and let’s see what differences are when it comes to operating them. Zhiyun
Smooth 4 has many buttons. It doesn’t have a joystick. Has this wheel where you can adjust
all parameters, zoom or focus wheel and trigger. It’s definitely a lot more complicated.
It takes a while to figure everything out. I was playing with it the whole evening too
to fully understand it, to figure out everything here. I gotta say if you are very advanced
in filmmaking or if you love technology, or if you are a computer nerd and you just like
to dig into things then you might definitely enjoy this one. The one thing I gotta say
though, I am missing the joystick here. Sometimes I like to adjust the frame or the smartphone
just with the push of a joystick. It’s not here, it’s missing. It simply feels different
to work this gimbal. Let’s look at the apps. DJI Osmo Mobile 3 has DJI Mimo App. I am Android
user. Apple users get access to more stuff. Android is unfortunately limited here. The
app is quite easy to use, you can switch gimbal modes here, follow, tilt lock, FPV, sports
mode and locked. You can lock the brightness, do object tracking, use gesture control, create
timelapses, motion lapses, take panorama photos and create stories. If you want to film with
the very wide angle lens or in slow motion, you have to get out of the DJI Mimo app and
film in a regular camera app. Let’s look at Zhiyun Smooth 4. This gimbal uses ZY app.
You can shoot manually or in auto. You can film in pan follow mode, lock mode, full follow
mode and phone GO full speed follow mode, or sports mode. You can do photos, videos,
slow motion, timelapse, motion lepse, vertigo effect and panorama. You can control focus
with focus wheel, lock brightness or use object tracking. Let’s talk about Filmic Pro App
since lot of people love to use Filmic Pro App. DJI Osmo Mobile 3 gimbal as of right
now is not compatible with Filmic pro app. You can still use it, you can film with it,
when you have your phone in the gimbal, but you will have to tap with your finger to control
the app. DJI Osmo Mobile 1 and Osmo Mobile 2 is compatible with the Filmic Pro and it
was not like that at the beginning either. They waited little bit until it was less glitchy
like this one right now and then Filmic Pro made it compatible. Zhiyun Smooth 4 on the
other hand is fully compatible with Filmic Pro and also Moment anamorphic lens, so you
can all connect it together and simply enjoy. So do you want just easy filming or do you
want to control everything? Do you want to shoot manually? Do you want something light
and compact or you don’t really care about that? Are you gonna be using external lenses,
some of the heavy lenses? Let me know in the comment section below which one is right for
you and why? I would be very interested in hearing that. Links to those gimbals and all
the accessories I was showing in this video is listed in the video description below,
just below the video. Hit the thumbs up button if you liked today’s video, subscribe to
more and I’ll see all of you my friends in the next one. Cau… Ahoj…