Gunson recently asked me if I would like to review their latest 3 axis gimbal now
this is called the moza air and supports cameras like my sony a6300 so that kind
of mid to small range size cameras up to 2.5 kilos payload it has it has a claim
battery life of up to 8 hours this particular gimbal as well and as you can
see you can get these 2 hand grips for it well they actually come with it in
the box you get even more stability than just the single joystick and there's an
optional little remote for it that I have so in this particular video I'm
going to go through the unboxing here balancing and setting up my camera the
application and then of course some sample footage and at the end my final
overall conclusion and opinion of the mozi air here so it comes in this
durable plastic hard case very nice and here we have all the parts we need for
the gimbal so here I have a couple of optional accessories get a stand here
that is optional so you can stand that up with the three-quarter thread that's
on the bottom of the grip here so in this grip you'd also put the three
batteries in that we have here that need to be charged up first so that stand is
optional and so as this this is the tiny little thumb controller we get now this
is working and operating via bluetooth and will let us control the gimbal
remotely I think it's up to about 15 meters the range that this has which is
good you can cycle through the various different modes and depending if it
supports your camera or not you can also cycle the recording on and off straight
from this without having to touch your camera now each of the batteries are two
thousand milliamp hours and charge time is going to be around about two to three
hours so make sure you fully charge them before you leave and go on a shoot so in
the little pouch here you get various different USB cables here that's to
connect the gimbal to your camera so I'll be using this one here which is the
Sony a series cable you've got your Panasonic cables in there Canon and just
another general one there which is just your micro USB to USB that's for
charging up the thumb controller so rest of the contents of the box is pretty
straightforward so these are the two hand grips if you decided you want to
use the dual hand grips instead of just Ingle grip that's part of the handgrip
CSA this will go around and then block on to the base of it and then we have
the Google itself and this is the bracket there for the thumb controller
now the handles of the grips also do have a quarter inch thread on them too
if you wanted to add or mount accessories to the bottom of those grips
then you do have that option so one con here I've noticed that some of the
components here like these hand grips they are a little bit beat up and
scratched from transit been in the box there they should have really packaged
things up with some plastic slips around it to avoid this kind of damage to it
straight out of the box now this by far is the hardest part and that's to
balance your camera which I'm just about to do now so you've got three screws on
each of the three accesses to control and balance things but there's good to
see that they have put the sticker on here that says this side up because it's
a little bit hard without that sticker to actually know whether it should be
this way or you could have it even you know flipped around the other way there
and you wouldn't really know either way so nice that they'll put that on there
just to help speed things up but this is a lengthy process to balance it and the
build quality overall the gimbal well it's made out of metal
it is solid the finish I don't feel as quite as good as the crane that I
reviewed alright so this is what it looks like once you have it balanced now
it could probably be a little bit better you can see it's tilting forward just a
little but this is the goal this is what you want it to be as level as possible
you can get it so this will save on the better life the gimbal the motors have
to work less and it will get better better life - as a result so I have my
external rode mech on I have an 18 to 105 lens - so that's an extra weight
there and it's balanced down okay but it did take me approximately 12 minutes or
so so there is a lot of messing about so all these little knobs here you have to
unscrew those you have to move this up or down and the one right here on the
back and then this one down at the base as well now there it is marked with
numbers so you can remember and map those down but the setup is always going
to be a con on these gimbals that it does take some time to get this set up
and what also slowed me down as I forgot to add the cable so once I put the cable
on the weight of that cable was also enough to have it to tilt to one side
just a little bit now that cables needed of course so it
will work in conjunction with my camera and when I use the little tiny thumb
remote there that I have set up so overall set-up time is a big con it does
take quite a while as expected here there is a Quick Start Guide too as well
that you get in the box that's in English and in Chinese okay so just give
you a quick rundown of the app you can use with it so you can get it from Play
Store there's also one for iOS if you have an Apple device and it allows you
to remotely control it via the setting right here so that will give you
controls you can control the the pan the tilt at the moment that's just the tilt
there and then you can just pan it left and right
so remotely you can do this as long as you're within Bluetooth range now I've
noticed that the sensitivity of the joystick sometimes can be a little while
the delay of it actually not really the sensitivities he had to be quite slow
with it to get those real nice slow pans there but it tends to work well there is
also this button right here which will reset the camera back to pointing
straight ahead and get everything centered and in line there you have
those settings right here that you can go through and adjust various parameters
and then save that to the camera so similar to other gimbals like the crane
I looked at and you could adjust different things like the speed of it
the power so there's a lot of things you can tweak them with it
now this here is to calibrate it this calibration also just the main button
again to reset things and if you have a look under this option right here this
is our time lapse but you're able to set your own time that's here so you can set
the camera pointing at what you want then decide okay I want it to go to the
right and then down or whatever and then you can add that and you set up your own
time then net time lapse and the timeline sorry and then go through here
and sit down your shutter interval the shutter duration target clip links and
all that and then when you hit start the camera will do all that automatically
there for you now to quickly go through the different modes of the gimbal here
so you can see here now it's in the fixed mode I can rotate my wrist and the
camera keeps pointing that way I want it to go too I can change the
and I want to use I can move run around it's going to keep it pointing that way
and you can see there at the stabilization is keeping that camera
level no matter what my is doing they're moving around so tapping the joystick
now will then put it into the follow mode so now I rotate my wrist you can
see it will slowly move around and follow around in the direction I am
going but a nice easy smooth motion there so this is good for getting pans
you can do a very slow pan by just moving around slowly or rotating your
wrists here and you see that camera comes around nicely and the vertical is
not affected there so your pitch is how but you can change that into other modes
well then that will also follow around too depending on there so it's not easy
to know what mode you are in without the use of the joystick so the little
joystick here actually has on here will tell you what mode you're in but here I
don't know unless I use the Bluetooth app on the phone as well then I can set
for example the locked mode the free mode and it's just a little bit easier
that way here you can see the joysticks it up so it's very handy because if
you're going to be using those grips then you can't touch of course the
joystick that's on the main grip you have to use this to control it which is
linked up via bluetooth to it and will automatically detect it and here you can
control that so I can pan it left and right using this and then you can also
remotely start and stop your recording holding this down will turn it off
you've got the options here you can go through the speed you're able to select
so you've got various different settings so low medium and then high and the
options is just going through your modes you can see it changing that now to your
you've got your pitch pitch your and all lock mode there too as well now one
thing I do like is that they've included that little stand here so the little
tiny tripod means that you can put this down because I just weighed it the whole
set up here with my camera attached weighs almost three kilos so that is
very heavy to be holding the whole time so at least I can prop it up on the
table or put it down on the ground or something and the gimbal itself just
the gimbal without any cameras and without the grips and things as 1.1
kilos now I have the camera stuck in the fixed modes it's going to keep pointing
at the castle where I want it to point and I can continue just to walk along
here and I'm just walking at a normal steady pace here nothing special and you
can see the stabilization off the gimbal is doing a really good job here I'll
just give you a demonstration to what it's like without the gimbal so just my
camera and its lens so I'll try and get the same shot again but now I'm just
holding it handheld my own camera here you can see this is the stabilization of
the lens without the gimbal so a huge difference there and the stability
doesn't really look that good at all so you can use the joystick to pan along
which I do right now here and it's a little bit sensitive so it does take a
while to get used to now the results will be better if you do mount this on a
tripod but that's one of the more slower speeds that I can get just using my
thumb there on the joystick you can of course also rotate your wrist a little I
do now and depending what major and then it will slowly pan around so I now have
the gimbal mounted onto a tripod here and I'm just going to pan along very
slowly using the joystick and we can test and see how smooth it is at pans
and now I'm running along testing the e stabilisation again and see it does a
good job here with running taking out a lot of those shakes not quite perfect
though
all right so there we go so that is the most air and the stabilization on it is
really very decent I like some of the features it has that time next mode and
things like that not that I would probably actually be using that too much
myself now the stabilization that it offers
you're going to notice it and get the most benefit if your lens or your camera
has some form of stabilization as well for example that the G lens that I've
got here on my Sony this has optical image stabilization built into the the
lens of this one so that's going to help smooth things out even further but if
you've got a caramel using say a prime lens or something like that that doesn't
have any stabilization then you will notice there will be some little jerky
moments and things it's not going to be perfect 100% super smooth but multi work
the common a stabilization that your camera already has like some of those
cannons and other ones that offer all of the Sony's that they've got really good
stabilization that's when you get the biggest benefit out of it so it is a
little bit heavy once you've got a little setup with your camera I do like
the fact though that it can hold up to 2.5 kilos in payload because my camera
with the external mic I comes up to be almost about 2 kilos so that it's good
that I'm still within the limits and the different modes and things we have on
there of 2 going through your pan modes and you can quickly reset it triple
tapping a button and things like that so there's a bit of a learning curve with
how it works but once you get a hangover it's quite good now the grips they do
add a little bit more stability than just using the single grip like this but
there's a con there too that if you're going to be using the grips then you
probably really want to get that optional but expensive thumb control of
it that we've got on the side here so then I can still do my pans and I can
still control it a little bit better it gives me more information - about the
battery life and all of that which is handy and of course if you don't go for
that then holding it like this and using it is perfectly fine but you can't then
control the joystick which is in the middle here so you're going to have to
do a bit of a awkward hold one of the grips and then use the joystick which of
course is possible and giving you another level of stability a little
bit more than just the single grip in the middle so one of the other cons one
con for me too was the applications not exactly I feel perfect
at least the Android one they need to do a little bit more work on that but it is
nice to know that we can tweak some settings on there we can save them we've
got the time at smile which I probably won't end up using myself personally and
you can calibrate the gimbal too as well but it just feels that it needs a little
bit of refinement that app it could be a bit better the way they've got things
laid out and the buttons and the controls and things like that I know
it's a bit of a delay to when you move and things now there could be down to
bluetooth but overall this mozi is a solid gimbal really do like it I will be
trying to use it a lot more in some of my reviews and things I do outdoors
of course I probably have to use it one-handed then if I'm holding for
example a mobile phone and getting some outdoor shots and whatnot but I will be
trying to make the most of this particular gimbal here thank you so much
for watching this review do hope to catch you back in the channel I may have
even another couple more gimbal reviews probably not this year but next year in
early 2018 bye for now