here are 10 things that i really like about the new weevil 3 from jewen
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and one that i don't now drew and did send me this gimbal but they're not paying for this
review they have no input into this video and they don't get to see this video before it's launched
one of the things i really like about this gimbal is how lightweight it is and especially
if you're doing things like this or like hiking through the woods and kayaking someplace having
a smaller lightweight gimbal is really important and this one really is a lot lighter weight and a
lot smaller than most the other gimbals even the weeble 2 or the rsc2 all those gimbals are quite
a bit bigger and quite a bit heavier so for a lightweight travel gimbal this is really good
when i first got this gimbal i was really unsure about the design the whole
wrist pad thing that came off the back really kind of threw me for a loop
but after using it for the last month or six weeks it really is fantastic and especially
when you're doing low shots like this or you're just walking through the woods and you kind of
want to be able to rest your hands so you're not having to hold the whole weight of the gimbal
it is amazing how much load it takes off of your wrist from having to hold the gimbal up
the fact that this gimbal has a built-in light really actually
makes it a lot more useful if you're a running gun filmmaker and you're going to places where
you may not always have great lighting or perfect lighting it's built in
it's bright it's pretty color accurate you can even change the color temperature
but just having a light with you all the time means that you can pretty well get
shots in places that you may not have been able to if you didn't bring a light with you
i really like the layout the placement of these controls especially if you're right-handed
they're fantastic because it's all right there basically you only have to use one hand on the
gimbal unless you want to use two you certainly can but having to be able to use just one hand
and basically access all the controls makes it really nice now if you're left-handed it's gonna
be a little more difficult because this really is laid out for a right-handed person this gimbal
does have a really great oled display is really bright and it's easy to see what you're doing
or what your settings are especially because it displays like what mode the gimbal's in
right away but it's also easy to go through and navigate the menu using the jog wheel
and the menu button to be able to adjust or change any of your settings on the fly
even though this doesn't have removable batteries like past gimbals have and i
still kind of like that the best this gimbal has incredible battery life june says about 21 hours
and honestly i've been using this all day so one two three four five six hours so far
and i've only dropped two bars so i would say that yeah this thing gets pretty amazing and
incredible battery life plus as a bonus you can use power delivery and recharge it super fast
now while this gimbal is small and lightweight and compact it does have
really powerful motors and that means a couple of things one it will be able to stabilize footage
even though you're running or walking and not really even trying to smooth out your walk like
you're not doing the gimbal walk but also it means you can put bigger heavier lenses on this
and so while i love the m3 because it's so small and tiny i like this a lot more just because it
has the size and the strength to be able to handle larger camera loads like i can put a
mic on top of this camera and have no problem so case in point i can put my 24 to 105 in here
balance it at 24 and then go all the way out to 105 and not have to rebalance the gimbal
and the game gimbal will handle it fine it's a really good sweet spot of size and power
now when they first said this to me this little bottom part really threw me off and i didn't
really understand what they're doing with it but the fact that you can if you balance your camera
well you can set the gimbal down on a flat surface and it will just stay there is really nice because
that means you don't have to have a little tripod with you now i do keep one of these with me just
because i like having the extra length that i can hold on to down like this when i'm doing maybe
certain kinds of moves and then i like a little bit of extra stability because i tend
to put my camera and my gimbal down in a lot of places that aren't exactly perfectly level
i love the fact that every gimbal coming out these days has got gimbal locks but some of them have
been pretty weak and i've definitely trashed a few the original weeble lab i broke those
gimbal locks fairly early on um they were pretty weak and they didn't last that long but these
are really strong and really robust it's a big piece of metal that you're putting in there i
mean it really clicks in tight and then it feels super solid so they made a massive upgrade on the
gimbal locks to keep this locked if you're sliding it in and out of a bag or a case
or something like that or if you're just running around with it like this and you want to make sure
nothing's going to move the gimbal locks on this are a serious upgrade
something that i found really cool especially now that i have the new sony 16 to 35 power
zoom lens is the fact that you can remotely control the power zoom from the gimbal if
you plug the camera in and then set up the control wheel to where it actually sets so
it will zoom in or zoom out and enable some really creative and cool things but it also means that
you don't have to put your hands on your camera which means you can get a smooth shot regardless
if you're zooming in or zooming out because you don't have to actually touch the camera
when it comes to price there's a lot of options out there some of them are very expensive and
some of them are not so expensive now the weeble 3 comes in at 450 dollars which is really not bad
considering the feature set you get and the amount of things that you can do with this
i really think it's great price point and that is something i like about this when other gimbals are
you know pushing eight nine hundred thousand dollars uh 450 sounds like a pretty good deal
to me and if you're in the market for a gimbal this is certainly a great option for that price
the one thing i don't like about this gimbal and i have this complaint about
a lot of gimbals these days is they don't have interchangeable batteries this one does
not have any interchangeable batteries i wish it did even if they were some sort of modular
built-in specialized interchangeable battery that would be fine just i like being able to
swap batteries out and recharge a set while i'm working with another set and not have to worry
about it that being said you can recharge this pretty quick over power delivery and you can just
put a power bank in your pocket and charge the gimbal while you're still using it now if you
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