Ahoj! This is Zdenka. I've got company here. Brand-new gimbal Zhiyun smooth Q2
which I'm gonna review into this video. We gonna head outdoors as well to
test it out and see what I think about this. This has not been sent by Zhiyun. This
has been sent by peargear.com online store which sell whole bunch of
different videography and photography items. This is not a sponsored video,
whoever they did provide the product for a review.
And if you are new here, welcome. My name is Zdenka Darula. If you want to learn how
to take better photos and videos with the latest gear and participate in
creative camera challenges, consider subscribing. Before I start going crazy
filming and all that, we should look at Zhiyun smooth Q2 specs. It is very
small 204mm long so it doesn't have to be folded. It
actually doesn't even fold. It fits everywhere. It is very solid aluminum
build coated with very soft silicone. It feels very nice, very soft, very smooth in
my hands, but I gotta say though when I feel that my hands are a little bit
sweaty I kind of have a feeling like I could easily drop it. But I might be a
special case because I seem to be dropping things here and there.
The three axes have quite wide range of motion. 265 degrees, 305 degrees, 360
degrees and the maximum payload is 260 g. One thing I really like about this
gimbal and I gotta give it a huge thumbs up is this. You can take out the battery.
I was already wondering about all the other gimbals I have here which have
built-in batteries. What will happen if something happens to the battery? Do I
just have to toss the whole gimbal out? Is it all garbage? Can I replace it
somehow? With this... if something happens to the battery you just put a brand new
in. So the gimbal will work. When you don't use the gimbal, you can lock the
arm right here so it doesn't swing around. But this whole part is still
swinging around. Phone holder is removable. It is supposed
to make it easier so you just attach it on the go instead of balancing it every
single time. So once you place your phone on the gimbal, balancing it, just slide
left and right until the phone is nicely flat. Release the lock, take it out. When
you need to use gimbal, place it in and lock. It is faster than balancing it
every single time. I wouldn't always keep the phone holder on my phone
but it would be quite useful if I would go to something like a family trip. When
I was traveling to Europe two years ago, I was in Czech and Slovakia. I was using
the other gimbal and I found myself balancing it all the time. It was not my
favorite part. For such a small gimbal it is quite heavy. It's got very strong
motors and very smooth. You can tell that right away. It doesn't have any
problems adding extra lenses like this moment anamorphic lens. But I gotta
say... when I placed the moment case on my phone and placed it in the phone
holder the fit is not 100%. It could possibly slip out. Once you turn the
gimbal on, operating it is super easy because the light here will tell you
exactly what the mode you are in and I simply love this visual reference
instead of just guessing.
Tthere are really just only three buttons on the gimbal. One is the power button,
then you have record button and then you have joystick. It also works as a button
to switch the modes. Once you turn it on, you will be in pan follow mode. Press one
time and you will get into all lock mode.
Press one time again and you will be in all follow mode. Press one time, you will
get to POV or point of view mode and press one more time, the last time to get
to vortex. The light will be flashing two times here. If you press one time, you
will get back to pan follow mode or if you press two times, you will go step
back to POV or point of view mode. If you long press the joystick button for two
seconds, it will go to standby mode. Long press again and it will wake up. This
record button is straight forward. Take photo or start recording. The power
button has more functions. Long press to turn it on or off. Single click to view
battery level, double click to reset the motors. Triple click to enter selfie mode.
Everything you need in three buttons... no kidding around.
That's pretty good.
Let's get to the actual filming. My phone is Samsung Galaxy S 10 plus. I got three
lenses. There is the ultra wide-angle lens and what I'm always concerned about when
it comes to this big phone and gimbals is if I'm gonna see the motors in the
footage. When it comes to balancing when I tried to balance this phone first time
on this gimbal, it took me few minutes. It was not so straight forward. It's
definitely way easier now as I'm doing it more often. When I just use a camera
app you know just a phone camera app, use standard lens, it is good. I don't see
the motor. When I use wide lens.... so right now I see the motor in the lens but I
have to do this and I'm good now. I don't see anymore the motor with standard
lens. I don't see the motor either way even if I'm holding it this way or
holding it this way. Let's see what's offered in ZY app.
When he open up the app and start filming, you will see the motor if you
don't hold it tilted. The app is quite simple, let's run through it. What you can
do here. First we have moving time-lapse category where you can create a 180
degree panorama time-lapse, tilting motion timelapse, panning and tilting
motion time-lapse, POV mode time-lapse. Next we have just a static time-lapse,
slow-motion, a video recording and take a photo. You can use a variety of filters
to change the look of your footage. When you film you can absolutely lock your
brightness or you can do object tracking. So let's go to selfie mode. Here I am....
okay..... it is tracking...
I don't know if you can see it
but the selfie tracking reacts very fast. I haven't seen any other gimbal moving
that quickly when I'm moving. Definitely the tracking feature works really well.
It shoots at 30 frames per second in 4k or 1080p or 720p.
You can enable grid, you can use timer, you can turn on flash or camera light
and if you go back to settings, you can change the app to normal camera app
where you can enter all manual controls if you want to. If you want to film in
vertical mode, all you have to do is just tilt the phone to the side like this,
then if you want to film in the upside down position, then you tilt it one more
time. This is very straight forward. Very simple useful gimbal on the go. Link to
this gimbal and pergear.com online store can be found in a video
description below, just below the video. Let me know what do you think about this
gimbal. I would like to know. You can do so in a
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next video. Cau.... Ahoj...