Chris with yet another gamble review this time at Zhiyun crane-M so a
smaller version of the crane that i looked at which is for your larger
digital cameras this one will take digital cameras that are the micro
four-thirds kind of sides so something like my sony a6300 which is an acute
digital camera and you can put accessories on it can handle up to 650
grams of weight in the box they also include adapters for GoPros your action
cameras generic action cameras anything really that has the quarter-inch thread
and there's also a bracket there you can connect on put on it so you can mount
your mobile phones here you can see here the case is really quite small so i
shouldn't have any problems putting this into my backpack in to travel around
with this it's really well-made feels quite tough so it should take your
knocks and things and it's even got some padding on there so we've got a few
instruction manuals warranty card certificate this looks like just a quick
start guide which will probably cover things like balancing it up first yes it
does so balance adjustment mounting it pretty straightforward but we'll go over
that in this video then the user manual course just explaining everything there
to you so the cables we have that is a micro USB 2 2 USB this is our battery
charger so you have to put both the cells and there of course and let them
charge which will take quite a while I think it was around about 6 hours on the
crane so you really have to plug it in leave it overnight
of course you use that with their mobile charger so or even a computer anything
that's got USB power 5 volts and I think two amps whatever will slowly charge
those batteries and here are the cells here so they're little unusual these
ones they're not so common there they speak of them as the I am are 26500
these are coarse 3.7 volts three thousand six hundred million hours each
here's the grip see put the batteries into that on the bottom there is
quarter-inch thread so you can mount this to tripods and then of course the
gimbal itself well packed in there so the cells of course just go into the
handle both of them now their pros and cons to having these removable batteries
I kind of prefer it actually even though the setups a little bit longer that you
have to put the batteries in and screw it all in place that means you can carry
some extras with you two of them and get another two then you can shoot for up to
another 12 hours of course it depends on your use if you're somewhere rough then
the battery probably won't last up to 12 hours of course the bottom screws in
there and you're going to have to unmount this every single time to screw
the soft remove the batteries when you put it back in that pack now just to
note that there is no rubber seal around this so it doesn't seem splash proof to
me I wouldn't want to be getting this region here where the controls are wet
you're looking at the weight of it gimbal itself is eight hundred and
sixty-four grams and with the carry case and all the other bits and pieces 1.43
kilos quickly run over the controls now so to power it on as this button here
you'll see that there's a logo there's a camera so when you connect up you can
connect up here but on the side here we have another micro USB port
unfortunately they haven't included the cable we need which is micro USB to
micro USB for example with my sony a6300 with that cable we've been able to use
that system to then control the zoom and camera and record features all via the
gimbal which is really handy so this is the mode button cycling through this
will go into our pan modes following eyelet mode and tilt mode I'll show you
that in a second when I set this all up the joystick of course controls the way
you want to tilt it so the tilt and panning left and right for example there
and this is the zoom control but that camera function status LED build quality
overall is really quite good it is all made out of metal so top build so using
this lens setup and to the external mic on my sony a6000
300 is too heavy the 18 to 105 millimeter lens and the accessory with
the microphone there comes in at just over one key though and the maximum
weight is 650 grams remember so this all my big lens does is to here be the whole
combination so put the kit lens back on to my sony a6300 and it's not even on at
the moment this has levelled out the best I could so balancing it is very
important if you don't get this right in the beginning then the gimbal won't work
properly anyone get the most tedious possible shots on it and what I've done
is you need to adjust all those three screws they're a little tip here make
sure the logo is upright make sure the knob faces out the
non-faces at the top here and then you should be set so that is really pretty
good that's balanced quite well there so just like the mobile-phone gimbals
from Zeon you can use the application so it connects up via bluetooth and it's
called a sealing assistant and you can see it's detecting it as the crane m and
here you can control it remotely it reports on things like your battery life
the mode you're in so there we can control it because you
feel a lot of controls and the range of it is just Bluetooth range there I'm
able to move the continue background that it's now moving the gimbal and you
can of course reset that too if you want to restore it there's a few interesting
things in here my favorites are the settings so in the settings you can
tweak and control things I'm not too happy with the default pan rate of the
joystick I find it to be just a little too fast and all you need to do is go
into the control rate and you tweak this I slowed it down down to 10 degrees per
second you can tweak it down even slower to get those really nice slow pans there
okay so this is in the fixed mode using the kit lens which has optical image
stabilization now for this results you should use a camera that does have
stabilization some form of stabilization otherwise it could be quite shaky
and it's going to be a quick job test so this here is an example of shooting
handheld having got the steadiest of hands and now with the gimbal when you
can see a huge difference on how steady it is it is really quite windy here so
if you see some shakes and things just the wind just blowing the gimbal around
the camera and this is a true test of the stabilization because this camera
that I'm using now the front-facing camera for my Samsung Galaxy s7 and it
doesn't have any optical image stabilization and you can't seem to
doing a really good job just have a look at the walls next to me and you can see
that's really really moving
okay so this is a very well made gimbal it's got a really nice case that gives
it a lot of protection we can sit on here GoPros mobile phones small digital
cameras so it is versatile now there is a restriction on the weight of 650 grams
this couldn't handle my sony 18 millimeter to 105 kit lens sorry not the
kit lens but the big lens on it so I had to put the kit lens on which is
disappointing it's just too heavy forward so really if you're going to be
using larger lenses or attachment or quite a heavy camera then I would go for
the crane version the crane version can handle one point eight kilos so it
handles a lot of weight this of course only 650 grams so for smaller cameras
those super zoom cameras and things like that
your little canons your little Panasonic's the cons this will be good
for that and then if you want to use the GoPro then you can swap it out you don't
have to buy a separate just GoPro only I'll stabilize that because it has the
quarter thread connection on the bottom of it which the mobile gaming balls
don't but if you plan to just use mobile phones I say go for one of their mobile
gimbals instead me personally because I can't use my big lens and my attachments
this really I don't think I'm going to use it I think I'm going to use the
crane and for anything else more portable more mobile I'm going to use
the mobile phone gimbal instead they're really so battery life now they claim it
can get around twelve hours I think that might be possible with something like
the GoPro on there that's not heavy at all it's quite light of course and
depends of course on the condition so if you're running this is moving a lot the
motors are working hard they do get quite hot then you're only looking about
six hours battery life it really does half the better life depending on what
you're doing they can be camera again it's going to be working a lot so
it won't last for so long it's good the fact that we do have the removable
batteries so you can have some freshly charged ones and swap them over great so
overall it is a decent gimbal it just doesn't really have a place here with me
what I want to do with it but as mentioned for smaller cameras it's good
got a larger camera get the crane got a mobile phone instead go for that and
then if you're someone that's got a GoPro then yeah thanks a lot for
watching and I do hope to see you back in the channel soon bye for now