Gadgetory

there has been a lot of hype around the Newseum smooth for smartphone gimbal and it was a good reason the hardware is amazing this is definitely the film makers gimbal but I feel that the software still has a lot of growing up to do here's what I like what I don't like and what I would change on the new ji-yoon smooth for smartphone component the GU smooth for currently retails for $139 that is the same as the new DJI Osmo mobile - but I feel each gimbal targets a different segment of the market which I will get into in the verses video if you want to pick this gimbal up and make something much more amazing than me I'll have links in description below and if you use the links it really helps out the channel first let's go over what you get with the smooth for the smooth for comes in a hard styrofoam carrying case that's very similar to what the Osmo mobile 2 comes included with you also get a foldable base adapter that screws into the universal mount found on the bottom of the gimbal and you also get a USB a 2 USBC cable for charging the gimbal itself is made mostly out of plastic and weighs in at 750 grams with an iPhone 8 + installed and 820 grams with the base adapter attached the gimbal is definitely on the bigger side compared to other smartphone Gamble's out there but the smooth force should be compatible with almost every smartphone out there given that it has a match payload of 210 grams for comparison the iPhone 8 plus weighs in at 148 grams the iPhone 10 weighs in at 174 grams the pixel to excel weighs in at 175 grams and the Galaxy S 9 plus weighs in at 189 grams ji-yoon also advertises the battery life of 12 hours on the smooth floor and it charges via the USB C port on the side but the battery life here is very variable because depending on what phone you're using how well you have a balance and how much you're moving around will all play a factor in how much of a battery life you'll actually get unfortunately you can't use the USB C port to charge your own phone instead you have to use the micro USB port found on the tilt axis of the gimbal and personally I don't have any micro USB to USB C cables or micro USB to lightning cables or any of that for that matter I feel the smooth force should have came included with a USB 8 port instead or at least let you charge stuff you have the USB C port because right now I think it's going to be very hard to charge your own phone using the gimbal and if you decide to shoot in 4k with your phone you're really going to need to constantly recharge your phone now if you do decide to invest in a gimbal obviously it's going to smooth out your video but it's not going to be perfectly smooth out you're still going to get a little undulation but you can always just smooth that out even more by adjusting the way you walk and hold the gimbal gu and zy play app also lets you choose between having electronic image stabilization on or off for the most part I've been using it with a is turned on but if you use it with a is turned off then you're going to get a slightly wider field of view but the smooth Ford does a really good job of keeping your phone on access no matter how much you move around very rarely has a gimbal messed up my shot because of how I was holding the gimbal or because I moved in a certain direction it also requires a good amount of torque to reposition your shot which I personally really like I also really haven't experienced any overheating issues with the motors either and the gimbal itself manages to stay very quiet so you're not going to get a lot of squeaking in your shot but keep in mind unlike the smooth cue the smooth four is not a 360 degrees gimbal but the biggest feature the smooth four has to offer are the manual controls and the zoom whirl like I start at the beginning of this video the smooth four is the filmmakers gamble because you can manually adjust all of your settings using the physical buttons personally one of the things I hated about the Osmo mobile 2 was having to use the touchscreen to adjust my settings and of the process messing up my shot with the zoom wheel you can also precisely adjust the zoom and you can also pull focus but unfortunately even though there is a slew of physical controls to control your camera settings there is no joystick to tilt or pan the camera you have to do it manually and personally I was surprised at first because I assumed there was a joystick and there have been multiple times where I would have liked to have had a joystick and I think gee you should bring some tilt and pan functionality with a software update but maybe quickly double pressing the flash blind in the center and using the center dial to precisely adjust your pan movement and maybe double pressing the crosshairs so you can use the zoom wheel on the side to precisely adjust a pan I don't know there's just so much you can still do with the hardware here but I'm still amazed terrorist's no joystick and in order to get the most out of the smooth for you're better off using G you ncy play up or else you're not going to be able to use the physical controls for the most part the zy play AB does a good job of getting good image quality from your camera the image quality is much better than what you would get using the smooth Q's app but I did notice the image quality wasn't as clear when you zoom in on something compared to the iPhones native camera app just like most other Gamble's the smooth four can also be used to capture various panoramas but unfortunately I found that I only worked 75% of the time and that's me being generous and finally let's talk about the active tracking it's mostly useless the tracking feature loses a subject very easily and you can't move the gimbal too fast but since this is software I hope she UHN will address these issues with future updates but finally let's talk about the handle like I said at the beginning of this video this is a pretty big gamble and in most cases it's a two-handed gimbal but I can't get over how much I hate the handle it's not ergonomic it's really just a rounded or rectangle and the gimbal never rests comfortably in the hand and the plastic itself is also very slippery so like I recommended with the Osmo mobile tool you better jerry-rigged a wrist strap to this guy or else you're gonna have a bad time when you inevitably drop it so here's my verdict on the ji-yoon smooth war it does what it's supposed to do very well and that's keeping your phone on axis no matter how much you move around without almost never snagging or adding unwanted background noise when the motors are working the physical control buttons let you quickly and easily adjust your capture settings on the fly so you can get the best shot but I do feel there is still room for improvement and refinement and the zy play we need better at stability and better active tracking I also think ji-eun should give us physical pan and tilt controls through a software update but if you're a mobile film Aker the smooth war is still a great tool I have if you made it this far I guess you enjoyed the video so hit that like button and get subscribed it helps out more than you realize support the channel by clicking on the links down below and I'll catch you next time