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From the moment I began my YouTube, channel one of the most common questions I've received over this period of time has
been do I use a stabilizer or what stabilizer do I use and for the greater
part of the last two years since I've been doing what I would call like
YouTube filmmaking I've been pretty reluctant to invest into something like
a 3-axis gimbal or a Steadicam or or Ronin or something like that and it
wasn't because I thought it wouldn't be a useful tool as much as I just felt as
though it wouldn't be something that would have fit into my workflow more
often than not the kind of shooting that I do is really really focused around
run-and-gun being in the moment just capturing candid sort of fast-paced
things vlogging heavily relies on just kind of having your camera ready at all
times that's generally how are you going to capture the best content and having
to carry around a stabilizer of some sort regardless of how big or small it
was it was just it was just another tool or another piece that was added into the
equation that could complicate things another set of batteries to charge more
equipment more weight in a camera bag I've always understood why stabilizers
are important and why you'd want to use them for certain situations but I've
never felt the need to go out and try one or just try and even use it in my
workflow pretty much from the first time that I started playing with cameras I've
always been a little bit of a frugal minded person when it comes to
filmmaking tools sliders dollies steadicams stuff like
that I've always found a solution or a way to get around it without having to
buy the equipment and in that time period of really just learning how to
get good with what I have available to me I became really good at shooting
handheld you guys have seen that I've done videos in the past talking about
camera movement and hey held camera movement how you can do a
surprising amount of things with just your hands and you don't need all the
fancy equipment I've been really surprised with the results I've been
able to achieve now coupled with the fact that my camera the Sony a7r 2
utilizes the embody image stabilization those two paired together make a pretty
solid combination now of course there is a pretty dramatic limitation to what you
are able to achieve in terms of smooth looking footage with just handheld
camera movement in the last year there has been an insane amount of hype built
up around 3 axis gimbal stabilizers and you know how every YouTube filmmaker
need one it's another one of those sort of like stereotypes almost of like a
YouTube content creator that oh you you have a sign crane or you give some sort
of three axis gimbal okay and I'm not gonna lie I was starting to feel a
little left out like everybody was expecting that I was using a stabilizer
and there's just so much so much excitement built up around these gimbals
like god I gotta get my hands on one I gotta try one for myself and
coincidentally Gunson gun gun gun s'en who makes the Moza air which i'm sure
many of you are familiar with they reached out to me to see if I was
interested in checking out the Moza air cross which is like the little brother
to the Mozie air it's just a bit smaller a little bit lighter and supports a
little bit less of a payload than the original moza air
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review of the Moza air cross that'll be coming here soon this is designed to be
a little bit more of like my first impressions of the gimbal if you will as
pretty much a first-time gimbal user I wanted to share with you guys what my
first impressions my raw sort of views I had what shooting what this gimbal was
like for the first time right out of the box the first time setup went pretty
smooth now slight disclaimer when I said I am a
first-time gimbal user that's not entirely true back when I worked at Pro
Photo Supply balancing and setting up gimbals and stuff like that was kind of
like one of my jobs as I worked primarily in the video department so I
have set them up before and like played with one but I've never actually got to
utilize them and shoot with one in my own work in my own environment if that
makes sense I had some hesitations going into shooting with this gimbal for the
first time because as you guys saw in the beginning scene of this video I was
shooting out in the snow it was really cold and I was worried that it was just
gonna be sort of heavy and clunky my hands were gonna hurt from running
around in the really cold weather to feeling that like getting in and out of
my car I was driving around getting the shots was gonna be an issue and turning
it on and off like getting it all steady to be perfectly honest I just had a
feeling that it wasn't going to be a very intuitive or simplistic experience
but I was wrong powering the gimbal on and off even if it wasn't perfectly
level and flat and surface I would just hold it in my hand hold down the power
button and it would turn on and level perfectly every single time I never had
an issue with it sort of creeping or changing angle over time which is
something that I know a lot of gimbals kind of always seemed to have a problem
with at least back a couple years ago when I was playing with them but never
dealt with that which was great now when I set the gimbal up for the first time I
pulled everything out of the box I popped the batteries and I had no idea
if they were even charged but I connected it up to my phone Moza has an
assistant app which is actually super intuitive so good job on that
and the batteries read that they were at 50% I was out shooting for a good four
hours and it didn't die which was like mind-blowing to me
I forgot to charge them before I went out to shoot but the other thing that
stood out to me was the build quality and the overall construction of the
gimbal I was worried that it was gonna be maybe a little bit heavy and just
kind of get frustrating to shoot with over time but the weight seems to be
about perfect partnered with my sony a7r - okay I don't wanna go too far in the
detail but so far I have to say my first impressions of the Moza air cross are
two thumbs up and I'm super excited to start using it more to actually put
together a full sort of thorough review for you guys so be on the lookout for
that but with that being said I think I'm
gonna wrap up the video here I just wanted to give you guys a little taste
into some hopefully new exciting content coming your guys's way with with the
this guy back here so be sure to give the video a thumbs up if you guys are
excited to see some more content with the gimbal subscribe if you haven't
already and I'll see you guys in the next video
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