- Ah ha ha ha.
We are at the beach today,
we're testing out something pretty cool.
Zhiyun Crane Weebill Lab, I almost fell.
I'm still getting used to this thing.
Alright so we've got the Weebill Lab,
possibly one of the best like,
compact travel gimbals out there.
So, let's give it a shot.
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Oh
- [Man] Potato Jet, what's up?
- How do people juggle?
This is so difficult.
One, two, three, four, just like this.
The first two throws are getting there.
One, two, oh (beep).
One, two, that's the first two right there, right.
One, two, three, oh!
See that, that was three.
Three throws and three catches.
One, two, three, (laughs) four!
I'm gonna get to 10.
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Four, five, six, seven, eight (groans).
Very primal sounds are coming out of my mouth right now.
(groans)
37 minutes in, I'm getting there,
I'm tired, I'm not gonna lie.
I'm literally sweating right now.
Two, three, four, five, six, seven.
(punch thuds) (groans)
Why do I keep trying to hit it with my head?
It's like reflex, I'm like trying to save it.
I'm trying to catch it with my head.
I need to stop that.
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Three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine,
10, 11, 12 (laughs).
Yeah!
I actually really broke a sweat on that one.
48 minutes it took me to do that.
(chuckles)
My God, I'm actually sweating
from trying to learn how to juggle, how embarrassing,
I'm gonna take a shower, I'll be right back.
And we're back to take another look
at the Zhiyun Weebill Lab.
Or ju-in is actually how it's pronounced properly.
Zhiyun Weebill Lab.
After shooting with this gimbal for a few days,
there's a few things I love about this gimbal
and a few things I hate so let's go down the list.
First of all what's unique about this
is how compact it is and how lightweight it is,
it weighs like nothingness.
So that makes it a great option,
especially if you're traveling somewhere
or you just need to throw it in a bag with limited space.
Now if you're looking for a bigger heavy duty gimbal
that can hold like a 1D X
or much larger cameras than this
then I can just save you a bunch of time right now.
You can exit this video, go watch something else.
There's a bigger brother, the LAB 3 of this,
or the Ronin-S.
Or even something like this, the MOZA Air 2.
This will not get you very far with bigger,
heavier setups but again we like this because it's small.
I mean really this is all you need to get going.
So you can just take this
and stick it anywhere you want.
And I also love that it has a lock for every axis,
so if you throw this in a pocket or clip it somewhere
it's not gonna flop around,
it stays nice and tight like that.
So if your camera setup isn't that big
and you're just looking for something
very compact like this,
then this might be your best bet.
It does also come with the styrofoam cases
which I actually really love
'cause its not like a heavy duty hard case,
but it's definitely nice to have
and strong enough to get you through some light use.
You guys probably already noticed
that this gimbal looks different
from all the other gimbals out there,
which I love, they're being innovative,
they're trying something new, I love that.
So you can throw this handle up here
and then you got like a dual grip here.
But also you could enter underslung mode just like that,
which is actually a pretty nice
comfortable mode to be in
especially for those low angle shots.
So yeah, I actually kinda dig this mode
and just having that extra handle back here,
it feels pretty good.
One of my original complaints
was that my hand was starting to cramp up a little bit
because my hands trying to hold this thing
but there's all these buttons here,
so I kept bumping buttons
and it just kinda like cramped up my hands.
But it turns out,
if you double tap this LV button right here
it locks all the buttons upfront.
If you press it three times
it locks all the front buttons
as well as the side buttons
so you could grab it and you don't have to worry
about pressing anything
or sliding any of these things around
so that's awesome, problem solved.
After looking back at some of the footage we shot earlier,
I did notice a lot of the shots were a little bit jerky.
Especially when I started turning the gimbal
it would just kinda jerk
instead of just floating over
and this is something I also noticed
in the earlier Zhiyun Crane 2.
Same thing here I just had to go into the app,
I had to make a custom setting
and just dial that sensitivity way down
so I could get super smooth motions
and I do feel like they should
just start shifting these out by default
with that smoother profile enabled.
But it's a fairly quick fix
so definitely not a deal breaker,
once you get your settings dialed in
this is definitely a solid gimbal so, no worries there.
By default it comes in pan follow mode
so whenever I move this around it follows the pan
but it does not follow the up and down tilt.
To adjust the tilt
you can just grab the camera and tilt it
which is kinda cool,
you could also use this joystick.
But one thing that bothers me
is that follow mode is probably
the setting I'm in like 90% of the time
on all other gimbals.
I want it to follow my pans and my tilts.
Currently you have to hold down
the trigger during follow mode
and you can't access consistent follow mode
without using the app and I hate connecting phones apps.
So if there's one thing I really wish this had
was just a follow mode
that you can just easily access through this
without having to hold down this trigger.
At least you can access POV mode
which is somewhat similar to follow mode.
You got your tilt as well as your pan
but it also follows your roll, so that's cool,
but a lot of times I literally just want follow
so I just want that tilt and pan.
You could also enter lock mode
so now I can move this thing however I want
and it's always gonna stay pointing
in that same direction and even vortex modes
where you just rotate the camera like this
and fly around which is a cool little effect.
Oh, I actually just got an email back from Zhiyun
they said they're working on new firmware updates
and one of the updates is that you might be able
to actually enter and stay in follow mode
just by tapping that trigger
so we'll see if that comes through.
This also claims a 6.6 pound load capacity,
which is actually pretty impressive.
Now this is the EOS R with the RF 24 to 105
and this is at like just over three pounds
so it can actually handle double the weight.
The thing is you'll probably never
actually test the six pound capacity
because since this body is so small,
it's designed for smaller cameras
and this EOS R with this kit lens is a tad big,
it actually does pretty well balancing and getting shots,
we've gotten lots of footage with it
but it does hit that eye piece right there
so ideally you'll be running smaller lenses like that,
that way you got plenty of clearance back here.
Generally the biggest limitation of this
is your size of your camera.
You're really gonna want like a mirrorless camera body
with a somewhat compact lens,
you don't wanna be running those
big fat lenses on this thing.
They got a list of compatible camera setups
with this so I'll link that below.
I do feel like they did design this one
more around Sony cameras
because they're a little bit more compact.
The EOS R feels a little bit too bulky on it,
so you're very limited on your lens options up here.
And balancing this thing, if you're familiar with gimbals
it's very easy, very quick, very simple to do
and locking access can help with some of that
because not only does it lock in kind of the storage modes
but it can also be used kinda like this
and now I can just focus on getting
my forward and back balance going, that's good.
Now I can unlock this axis and focus on this,
this way you can just do it one at a time
so that's convenient.
I do actually really like
the battery placement of this thing.
So it just comes out back here,
that way you don't have to remove
a bunch of accessories to get to the battery,
so that's nice.
And we are running off those 18650 batteries
which, I love these batteries.
Lots of power, they're fast to charge
and they last all day so I dig that.
Another super cool feature is this base plate
you have your standard base plate
but it also splits up into halves,
so you could actually take this,
unscrew it which is basically like the safety
and then pull it apart.
And that's actually super helpful
because once you have it balanced,
let's say, like right there, it's balanced, perfect.
Now let's say you wanna do a battery swap,
older setups you would have to take it off
and then rebalance but this pops off,
you could do your battery swaps
or anything you need to do down here,
you could pop it back on and this attaches one direction,
doesn't slide around,
so once it's attached, your balance is still
in that perfectly right spot, so yeah.
Another good thing about this
is that its Zhiyun and they are a fairly reputable brand
even though no one knows how to say their name properly.
They sent me this one for free,
but I have purchased one of their older ones.
Still works perfectly fine to this day
but I did have a little issue
with the first one they sent me.
Oh, okay.
They asked me to send it back
and then they shipped me this new one.
I think it is software related
because it did happen right after I did a firmware update,
maybe something went wrong, I don't know.
Also there's this phone mount
which surprisingly actually comes sold separately
so you do have to buy this if you need it.
There's a Zhiyun app that's free to download
and it connect to this to access
a few more of the controls.
But I don't feel like there's enough in that app
for me to want to regularly use this thing.
One of the selling points of this app
is that you can actually hook up your camera to the gimbal
and wirelessly send a signal to your phone.
So you kinda use your phone as a monitor,
which sounds awesome.
The video feed just has too much of a latency
and it's too choppy, I wouldn't really mess with it.
I would much rather just use
the display back here or get an HDMI signal
out of here if I needed a monitor.
And currently the communication
between this Canon EOS R and this Weebill Lab
is just not there.
They did tell me that they are working
on a firmware right now,
so it should be coming fairly soon
but as of right now I just need to keep it unplugged
because it literally just freezes up this camera.
And again I do feel like they kinda designed this
focused more around the Sony mirrorless cameras
and I hear a lot of positive things
about the app in the Sony world, I merely tested it myself.
Currently as I'm making this video, it's priced at 599
and that is a little bit steep
considering like the Moza Air is the same exact price
and it can accept heavier camera setups.
But again we're not looking at this
because it's a beast of a gimbal, we're looking at it
because it's a very good option for like travel.
'Cause looking at the MOZA Air 2
there's definitely a big weight difference
and obviously a size difference
and I believe the Ronin-S
is about the same size as this but even heavier.
Overall it does feel like the quality is there.
I think it's a great option,
especially if you have a smaller mirrorless camera
and you have your set of lenses already
then there's really no point
in getting a bigger gimbal than you need
because it really does start to become a pain
and the reason why I bought
the original Zhiyun V2 is because it was compact
compared to everybody else out there
and this is kinda like the next step up in evolution.
Anyhow, overall I plan on using it, I dig it.
Let's read some comments.
Alright, so since we have this gimbal
we might as well continue testing it out.
Let's read some comments from my last video
where Chris Rollins brought over his super high speed camera
and we just filmed a bunch of stuff super slow motion.
I got hurt, lost some brain cells, a lot of fun.
Alright so top comment was from Jan Hemstad,
Was he disappointed the balloon wasn't strawberry flavored?
Steve was definitely disappointed
that it wasn't strawberry flavored
but I think he was more disappointed
it wasn't a condom that hit him in the face.
The Enthusiasm Project says,
I can't wait for the 120 frames per second vloggers
to start making 40,000 frames per second B-role sequences.
Oh my god, while we were testing out that camera
I realized anything past like 10,000 frames per second
is like just too slow.
1,000 frames per second, still pretty cool.
10,000 frames per second, everything's so slow.
40,000 frames per second is just like, it's boring.
Why does gene go from a 30 year old male
to a 80 year old woman?
(laughs) That was not fun.
I think I'm done getting punched in the face
for a little while.
BadKarma says, Jet getting punched
on slow motion was funny as hell.
Why do you guys like watching me get tortured
all the time, dammit.
Liam says, brah that was sick by Lefty 2019.
I think that should be a T-shirt, actually.
That'd be my first merch.
Mohammed says I was thinking what to comment
so that you read my comment in your next video,
I wasn't able to think of any.
Well, I guess that worked.
sekra says, who's OneWheel is that?
Can we have some footage of that thing?
There you go.
You guys happy?
I'm considering it like an investment so that I can use it
to film smooth gimbal footage like this.
Now I'll ride it, Sam gets to walk.
Noah says, when I have a kid
I'm gonna name him Jotato Pet.
Please do, I would be really happy
if you just ruined your kids life by naming him
such a weird thing, but I would get
a really good kick out of it so please do so.
Chris Rollins is a pro gun supporter
and a hunter with semi automatic fire weapons.
Great friend you have there, Potato.
I'm no longer subscribing to your channel.
Is this a bad time to mention that I own guns?
(laughs)
Eric says, I love that outro music.
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