Today we are testing the Zhiyun Smooth Q2 . Parkour time. Well that would have
been a nice vlog but unfortunately my GoPro died a few moments after that very
clip so here we are with a better video in more death and let's see how smooth
is the Smooth Q2.
Hello guys, welcome to a new vlog and thanks for tuning to my channel. If it's
the first time, my name is Mamo Air and I create content for digital
platforms. I talk about travels, I talk about camera gear and filming. Now back
to the subject of our video, the Zhiyun Smooth Q2. First of all thanks for the
company to send me this pre-production item, they sent it for free, so again much
appreciated. Now first thing I look into a stabilizer
is the stabilization. Wow, yeah thank you, thank you very much.
I just took a week to write a script. And for me a gimbal is not a proper gimbal
unless it passes the parkour test: let's start from this feature. First of
all we're going to balance our phone on the gimbal. I own a samsung A8, it's not
the best phone out there, especially its camera is not great and there's no
manual setting so the footage you're gonna see, well just take it as it is.
So let's balance the phone on the gimbal. This is the quick-release plate
that comes with gimbal. So what you want to do you just slide it in there's a
some instruction here so we're just gonna do that we're gonna close it and
we're gonna slide it in like so and it will click and now with the red lever
you just lock it you lock it in place okay now you're gonna open it open this
up now we're going to slide our phone in the cage and make sure the camera is
facing your roll axis here we go now doing suggest you to balance the phone
in an horizonte position like so oh wow that was luck check us out well huh I'm
a pro huh me come on anyway so that's the way you want to balance it facing
down alright and just make sure he holds the position it's pretty good nice so
we're gonna turn it on with this button right here here we have it and now
parkour time Oh job done
that was booth right people I'm trying to follow Andy here then some jumps with
lock mode yeah go with the lock mode and just follow him for now and then we take
a shot from this side as well for the jumping shots you've just seen I use the
lock mode which basically locks all the axis of the game so whatever you do the
game will we stay another all I think we perform really well if you think that
jump was around three meters long so it was a pretty big jump we were going full
speed image is a pretty stable in my opinion if I have to be very picky when
I was running sideways the horizon line wasn't really straight but it was a bit
of set but that's something you can fix in post production so we don't worry
about that now I know that everyone is not using the gimbal to do parkour and
to jump around but I wanted to test in extreme conditions and also I wanted to
test before the purposes I use it for so let's take a few clips with normal
camera movements now so this is walking in a walking backwards I'm gonna hit
something on 4th I'm actually gonna show you my setup here we go DIY that's what
I do when I'm in my own so a 7 hour 3 mic and that's the tripod the cozy and 2
might well that's not what you thinking it goes into my pocket to keep you
stable that's a tip hmm secret anyway let's try some tilting with the smooth
q2 so this big tree again very mind there's no manual settings on my phone
so it's pretty rubbish the change of focus and dynamic range and the change
of light is all rubbish but the motion of this move q2 is really nice as any
other game but you don't want to do an sudden movement or twist your wrist
actually still holds quite nicely I mean follow mode at the moment he will follow
basically my panning and tilting and it's really good little planning okay I
go in POV mode so POV mode is a bit more free so I will follow all your motion
like a sport mode in their own enas for example if you have quick movements or
sports you can just use this mode here we have a vortex mode as well like in
the crane m2 and the running so you need to put your game horizontally and this
way you can just rotate your phone and create a vortex effect it's quite tricky
with the joystick all right guys let's go find a new spot and we're gonna test
them over so the time lapse moving time lapse let's go tweet okay bye bye blue
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it were a quick tutorial for the jewing app so very simple you can scroll
through these images to look for your product if you don't find the smooth q2
just go another connect now you have to have the Bluetooth and the location on
so enter now now you are in the app to make sure your gimbal is connected to
your phone make sure you press the Bluetooth icon there alright it will
look for your device device is connecting up you're gonna close the
window and here we are in the app so you've got different settings on the
right-hand side these are actually the most so you've got the slow motion
time-lapse and moving time-lapse we're gonna test it out you have an icon also
for all the camera settings the resolution white balance manual mode
degree the flash or the other sort of things which I don't need right now
let's go to this icon right here and we try the time-lapse as you know the other
cameras in the time-lapse you have a time interval I put 3 seconds between
each shot duration let's do 5 minutes and see what we come up with and then
you just press start and here we go easy I know we know in the best place for
time lapses usually want to have something in movements or actually we
have this nice birds now but that's what I've got
let's try they're moving time-lapse now so we got to our menu again right here
moving time lapse this is our starting point you press ok then we move our
camera to there and now we press the plus button again here we are and we got
next time interval half second and then duration of the old filming I can do you
need to scroll down five minutes and we press Start
so the gimbal automatically will push the red button for you you don't need to
do it otherwise you will stop and you need to start from scratch so now we
wait for five minutes and see the result at the end
as if it's actually jittery or or pretty smooth
here let me know in the comments below what you think but I think it looks nice
yeah it moves a little shakes but you can probably stabilize it a bit more
imposed but it looks nice right so I found out a couple of
downside for this gamble well the first one quite obvious when you film most of
the times one of the motor is in frame so the design is not great if you think
someone has designed this as a gimbal so a bit is a point in there basically if
you don't want the motor in your frame you need to keep the gimbal in an angle
and I guess they just launched a new firmware they actually does that for you
but other to the point in doing that I mean if you design a game we'll just
make it work properly right why would you want a motor in the frame here we go
as you can see here you see here that's my motor the second- thing for me
which is not major but it's not including a tripod so this tripod is
from the jewing crane m2 and he actually fits nicely so I don't see the reason
why they didn't include one in the smooth q2 I mean what would you need a
portable try before a portable gamble when you have a 5 kilogram one so that
you can carry all over the place like that anyway going back to my original
question is the smooth Q smooth enough I think it works pretty well to be honest
so it's really nice really smooth if they could fix the motor in front of the
frame yeah that's the main thing to be fixed in my opinion the build is very
nice I think it's made of Allah and silicone grip it's poised so it's
better pour etre than the crane m2 for example the battery should last 17 hours
I'm not sure if it does I haven't tested it out yet but yeah you can charge your
phone through the USB seaports so it's pretty handy in that in that way
so let me you guys know what do you think about images and the overall
performance of the gamble thanks a lot for tuning in thanks for doing to send
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vlogging I'll see you in the next video god bless