Ahoj! I'm gonna say it. They finally did it! Check this out!
I am filming in Filmic Pro right now and the gimbal is tracking me. In fact,
I can film in any kind of app I want to and it's gonna be tracking me. On top of it,
I have this remote. The remote can control gimbal, change modes, everything. I can position
the camera, I can do literally everything. This is the ultimate kit we've been waiting for. If
this didn't catch your attention then I don’t know what else will. Well, Hohem provided this gimbal,
Isteady V2 and this selfie stick with the remote for a review. I am gonna go ahead and review it in
a great detail. If you are new here, welcome. My name is Zdenka Darula. If you are into filming and
photography, consider subscribing to this channel. This ultimate vlogging kit comes in 2 packages.
First one is Hohem isteady V2 gimbal which by the way comes in 2 colors. You can choose black
or white. Second package is optional and that is the expandable selfie stick with remote control
Hohem RS01. The remote can be connected with the gimbal and it is a removable as well.
But we will look at it later on, first let's check out the actual gimbal. In the box you are going
to find few things. User manuals which I must say are clearly written. They are easy to understand.
You are going to get the gimbal, little tripod, carrying bag, wrist strap and charging cable.
When you look at this gimbal, it's got the classic Hohem design. They are maintaining the same look
with all their gimbals. It is foldable, the weight of the gimbal is 263g, folded dimensions
are 179x79x39mm. It’s got build in 2800mAh battery. If you are using just the gimbal,
not the AI Vision Sensor and light, battery life is 9 hours. Type-C charging port is right here and
it supports 2 way charging which means that you can charge your phone with it and other
electronics as well. Let’s open up the gimbal. You have to tighten the screw here. The clamp has
new feature added and that would be the AI Vision Sensor with adjustable LED video light.
The clamp itself has very nice deep grip so your phone won’t fall out. Here it is with iPhone 12pro
and here it is with Samsung Galaxy S10 plus. Phone holders width range is between 55 and
90mm. The maximum payload is 280g. In fact, it is not only for smartphones. You can use it with
action cameras like Go Pro. I have Insta360 here. And you can take advantage of the AI-tracking
sensor. First time you turn it on, you need to activate it through the Hohem Pro app. Before I
dive into buttons and app let’s do a stabilization test first. I am going to be using Hohem Pro app
for that. Standard lens. Let’s do regular walk first, soft ninja walk and then full speed run.
Moving on. I am really curious about the AI-tracking sensor. Now, this feature
is changing gimbals to whole different level and Hohem is absolutely crushing all other gimbals
right now at this moment. Now, will anybody else do it? Who knows? So far they are the first ones
to have this feature on a 3-axis smartphone gimbal. This AI-tracking works on its own. You
don’t need any app. It’s got Hohem AI Chip H2 and double-column cooling system. Let me read this:
The ultra-quiet fanless passive cooling solution will let AI sensor quickly cool through the
clamping steel column. It has been tested in a high temperature oven of 60 degrees and
continuous 48 hours aging test. By the way you can customize portrait composition
as well. I’ll show you that later in the app. This is what you do: To turn it on just press
the button at the top. The red light will turn on and the video light will flash 2x.
To make it track you all you have to do is just to show this OK sign, the light will
turn green on the top and now you know that when you move around, it is tracking you. To stop it,
you just show the palm of your hand. You can also turn it into the vertical mode and that would be
simply showing these thumbs up and then back. It's gonna go back to horizontal. But now, let's test
how the tracking is gonna be. So let me start recording. And I am going to show the OK sign,
it's tracking me so I am gonna play little bit hide and seek and see how good that is.
Yeah, it's pretty good. You are not giving up on me. OK, Let's go to the other side.
Oh wow, it can go all around. That's pretty good and quite fast. I am gonna be even faster
and even faster. Holy crap. He still sees.. and down. Oh.
It is following me very well. Let’s check out the video light. Just shortly press the button on top
to turn it on. It has 3 levels. Low, medium and high. Right now I am filming with just iPhone
12 pro. There is no external microphone and I want to see how the light is. So,
I am gonna turn it on. This is the strength no.1. Let me do strength
no.2 and strength no.3 And I don't think it is bad actually, it is pretty good.
So that would be the light if you gonna be filming in the evening. Right now it is not really dark,
dark yet, but it's quite getting late. Once you don’t need the AI-tracking and the video light
just press the button on top to turn it off. As I mentioned earlier if you are only using the
gimbal, you will get 9 hours of battery life. If you gonna be using the AI vision sensor,
you will get 4 hours of battery life. If you gonna be using AI-vision sensor and the video light,
you will get 2 hours. Another good news is that Hohem gimbals don’t show motor in the shot if
you are using it with ultra wide angle lens on phones like iPhone or Samsung. Some phones like
Xiaomi 10, 10 pro and CC9 pro will show a motor because of the camera placement on the phone so it
will depend on what phone you have. And with this gimbal of course, you can also film upside down.
All you have to do just flip it upside down.
Let’s look at the mechanical range of movement. Pan,
roll and tilt all can do 320 degrees. Controllable range for pan and roll is 320 degrees
and for tilt is -30 to +30 degrees. Let’s see how it is if I am moving it around. Now I have it
on the tilt and pan follow mode which would be the default mode once you turn it on.
And there is absolutely no sound, it is absolutely silent.
No vibrations. Nothing. It's time to explain the buttons and how you can
operate the gimbal when you are NOT filming in Hohem Pro app. Power button is on the right.
When you press and hold for 3 seconds you will turn this gimbal on or off. If you single press,
you will switch between horizontal and vertical mode. If you double press you will re-center
the gimbal. If you triple press you will get into INCEPTION Mode. This is automatic mode.
Your phone will start spinning. Let’s see the range with the rear camera and standard lens.
Big part of the shot is clear, at the end the motor gets in a way.
If you press 5x auto calibration will start. It will even out your gimbal so you don’t see horizon cricket. This is
great. So I’ll turn it on, press 5x auto calibrate and I am ready to film. There is one more function
to this button. If you press 7x you can pair this gimbal with the extendable selfie stick which has
a remote. A bit later on that. Joystick is the usual. Controlling the movement left,
right, up and down. Zoom button is on the side. Unfortunately the zoom button only works if
you are filming in the Hohem Pro app. Shutter button is right here and that one has a few
functions as well. If you single press it will take a photo or start and stop recording video.
If you double press you can switch between photo and video mode. If you triple press you can switch
between rear and front camera. Unfortunately this is again only available in Hohem pro app.
Well, no big deal. We'll just tap on the screen. And now you are probably wondering. Well, OK,
but how can I switch the gimbal modes? Press and hold shutter button and single tap power button.
Now you are in pan & tilt follow mode. You will know that you are in this mode because the green
light will be solid. Now press and hold again the shutter button and double tap the power button.
Now you are in pan follow mode. The green light will be flashing 2x. Press and hold shutter again
and triple tap the power button. Now you are in all lock mode. The green light is flashing 3x. And
lastly press and hold shutter button again and 4x tap the power button you are in POV or all follow
mode. The light is flashing 4x. This is great news. So now you can just film in any app, just
change the modes. You don't have to go between Hohem pro app and the app you are currently using.
When it comes to those gimbal modes and the way the gimbal reacts, those following shots,
you know the nice endings, that nice finish. You can adjust the follow speed in the app.
You have a choice between shooting with general follow speed. Then you can do slow, which I like,
medium for fast movement and fast for video transitions or quick movements like sports.
But let’s dive into the app. Now is the time. I am using the iPhone 12 pro. I will check the Android
version as well but now the iPhone is going first. Below the home button you have the option to
turn on the flash or continuous light if you are filming with a rear camera. Below you can switch
rear and front camera. Next we have face tracking and object tracking. And lower are settings.
Let’s start with video resolution. You can film in 24, 30 and 60 FPS in 4K, 1080p or 720p.
You can turn on grid if you like, adjust zoom speed, turn on timer and if you want to get out
of automatic mode, you can turn on professional mode. Well, it is partly professional mode because
it doesn’t allow you to select shutter speed. It allows you to adjust exposure, select ISO,
White balance and select lens. What I see here is back standard camera, telephoto, triple camera and
ultra wide camera. If you really want to film in professional mode then you would probably
film in app like Filmic Pro, or Protake, or on Android the native video Pro mode. By the way,
I made tutorials on those, I'll link them below. Let’s click on the gimbal parameters settings.
Here you can change gimbal modes, and follow speed. You can also change motor response to low,
medium and high. Here you can turn off or back on roll auto-rotation, customize joystick settings,
perform auto calibration, restore settings and perform the AI Vision Positioning Calibration.
So here is where you can customize the framing of tracking shot. So if you like yourself little bit
higher, not necessary directly in the center, you can do that. Or if you want yourself a bit on the
side. Z and F stands for zoom and focus. With zoom button you can either zoom or if you select the F,
you can change focus, you can do focus pull. Too bad that this is only working in Hohem Pro.
On the other side we have filters. There is large selection of those. Below is gesture control.
If you enable that, once you show V or palm of your hand it will start recording and tracking
you. And below is shutter. On the right side we have Moment feature where you can do these
pre-designed stories. You have choice of Lucky and Dynamic. Below is Dolly Zoom feature,
smart motion timelapse. You can only do panning with this one. Panoramic video is next, Fantastic
rotation is next and Inception. Below the Moment we have video, photo and time lapse. Here you can
control everything and select positions of camera. Android users will get pretty much everything the
same in the app except. You are going going to get 30fps frame rate in 4K, 1080p and 720p. However,
you can use this gimbal with other apps, so that would be one of the solutions. Let’s check out the
selfie stick with the removable remote. The weight is 127.5g so it is very light weight. The remote
control can be removed and it is tiny and light. 10.5g. It works to up to 10 meters distance.
You can extend the length of the stick to 300mm. Let’s check out the buttons. Power button is here,
Shutter button is here. Single press to take photo, start or stop video recording,
double press switch photo and video mode, triple press switch front and rear camera, again only
in the Hohem Pro app though. Function button is on the right. Single press to switch landscape and
portrait mode, double press to re-center the gimbal and triple press to perform the auto
inception rotation mode. M button which change gimbal modes. Single press pan and tilt follow,
double press pan follow, triple press all lock and if you press 4x, it is POV or all follow mode.
If you long press you can stitch the zoom in and out. Again, only in Hohem Pro app. And
gimbal tilt control mode which is awesome. You have it on a monopod, you can now control the
tilt modes without bringing it down all the time. Left and right is for pan control. What
I have to say though, that you have to remember to always turn off the remote once you are not
using it. Of course I forgot and few days later the battery was dead and I needed to replace it.
To get through the doors is very difficult task. I would suggest actually re-designing the doors.
I couldn't get it off. My husband finally got it off. So here is the battery which goes in. It's
CR2032. I highly suggest buying those batteries as well if you gonna be getting this remote. OK, so
the maximum payload is 280g. So what can we load on this gimbal? The iPhone 12pro with Moment case
weighs 227g, if I add to it this microphone, all together it is 238g. If I am going to add
Variable ND filter and I am just gonna use this kind of clamp to help balance the gimbal,
the weight is 284g. If I am gonna be just using VND, the weight is 257g. If I'm gonna add
just VND filter and microphone, the weight is 267g and if I'm gonna add clamp to it, it's
over. 294g. If I'm gonna be filming with anamorphic lens, then the weight is 274g.
And if I'm gonna add VND to it on top of it, then I am over again, 304g. So there are certain
limitations because of the maximum payload. I was wondering if maybe Hohem could create
another gimbal for us. The same but with much bigger maximum payload. Please. Otherwise if you
gonna be filming just in automatic mode, or maybe the variable filter, it's got everything. Well,
almost. I am looking forward to taking this gimbal out next week to create another outdoors filming
tutorial for you. I just want to see how it's gonna perform in the field. I wanna see how many
more possibilities it's gonna give us in terms of creativity. Well, link to this product and all the
other items I was showing in today's video can be found below the video in a video description.
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