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Another hand-held 3-axis gimbal stabilizer

Postby RJ Johnston » Fri Sep 22, 2017 4:44 pm

I finally saw a 3-axis gimbal stabilizer, Feiyu Tech Vimble C, that had an agreeable price of $139, so I bought it. It's wonderful. It works with a smartphone or a GoPro Hero camera. There is a smartphone app you need to use to make very useful adjustments to the gimbal. The Feiyu On smartphone camera app for capturing video is so-so, but you can use any camera app to capture video. The app version for iPhone may be better. I've been using Open Camera (free) from the Play Store to capture video. If you have a second smartphone, you can use it to remotely control the panning and tilting of the gimbal mounted with the first smartphone.

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The "dead zones" can be adjusted so large movements are dampened quite a lot. Here is video comparing a smartphone camera without the gimbal to another smartphone of the same model with the gimbal (both mounted on same tripod).

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Re: Another hand-held 3-axis gimbal stabilizer

Postby sidd finch » Fri Sep 22, 2017 5:53 pm

Gimbals make video better. I love mine. I do not shoot too much iphone video but having that stabilized is always a good thing. I use the gopro app on the smart phone to view video so not so sure about Feiyu Tech Vimble C's app.

For iPhone I use the Filmic Pro app that has some really professional features. The resulting video is really really good. It is not free but I think the results are worth it.

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