Gadgetory

here guys johnathan here today I'm showing off what is my favorite gadget of 2018 so far I realize there's plenty of time left in the year but there's been nothing that's given me this much fun at all this year it's actually what is being used to record this video right now the DJI Ronin s now also quick shoutout if anyone wants a chance to win a brand new LG G 17 Q make sure to check out my Instagram got a chance to win so while that footage was captured on the Aurora s and Sony a7 3 and if you come my behind the scenes on the Elon Musk mkbhd interview everything there was also captured used in this setup the Ronin s is a motorized 3 axis gimbal meant to stabilize DSLRs and melas cameras so again in my case I've a setup with the Sony a7 3 but it'll take a payload up to 8 pounds so in this case mr. Brannon håvard has a 1 DX balance which is a pretty heavy setup next I am by no means an expert but here are some tips that I found helpful when balancing the camera so the number one tip I can give you is make sure this bottom plate is properly tight and you don't want this loose and falling around because that will 100% screw you up first step is to make sure this is unlocked right here we're going to slide that in and the way I've kind of done it is the first step is I will balance it this way so I'm gonna hold this with my hand and kind of just use that to kind of feel out the balance once I get somewhat close I'll kind of lock it and then see how that goes so that's good from there the next thing I want to do is see how it balances pointing up so looking at that it's a little bottom heavy so what I'm gonna do is give it just like a little slight adjustment and that's really the key here it's just like the game of like minut adjustments I'm gonna lock this back up see how that works and see now we're top-heavy so keep it just like the little bit of adjustment that's pretty good I'm gonna go back to the front and back that's solid and the next thing I'm gonna check is the side to size so we're definitely leaning to the left so the way I'm going to compensate is here unlock and if it's going this way this is the way we want to go you got to have a lot of patience for this like any little small thing will throw you off and now I'm going to the right so that seems good that's not bad so again the goal here is to get it as balanced as possible with the motors off that way when the motors are on they're gonna do minimal work and that's really the way you want to go now for a lighter setup like this or if you're using a zeiss batis i would say this part here for the most part is going to be all the way down and then from there now we can power on the motor and things should be good to go now there's a Ronan app that you're gonna want to download to your phone this is gonna help make sure we balanced everything correctly there's a built-in balance task which is really helpful and that way if you happen to be off on your tilt your roll or anything else it's gonna let you know so head over to configuration settings more balance tests and then it's gonna kind of Auto do its thing and make sure everything is uniform and working perfectly so here we can see tilt excellent roll excellent pan excellent so if you were off it would let you know next from there the next thing I want to do is head over to motion parameters select Auto Tune and that's just kind of my rule of thumb for every time i balance this with a new setup if you're going for like the same setup again I wouldn't do this too much but just showing you what works for me so we're locked and loaded ready to go one of my favorite moves with this is the parallax where you try to focus on the object in the center of the frame you can take it a step further and kind of go for that 360 vibes which I'm gonna show you now so rich is our lovely demo I got him locked in the center and you really want to be like light on your feet I got a pull so I'm gonna try to stay around that and again I'm just trying to get better with this but it's good practice just pick an object keep it in the center of the frame be light on your feet and you're good to go now quick tip with this if you ever want to get back to the center point or you're starting zero point just double tap this it's gonna bring you there if you want to do straight moves not kind of go for that parallax move hold it while you're walking into the subject or away so again I'm gonna demo rich walk back here find where he is that I'm gonna hold it lock it and then I'm just gonna walk in there so I got rich locked loaded I'm going to walk back tree walk forward and yeah that is so much fun this wide-angle lens is like kind of crazy on here now this is 4k 24 frames per second but if you were rockin slow-mo it's like a whole different beast and way way more fun now this video is kind of like a two and one yes the Ronin s so far is my favorite gadget but it's also kind of paired with my maybe second favorite gadget the Sony a7 3-wood for the money I think is honestly the best camera of 2018 so far next I'm gonna hop over to snq mode 120 frames per second is 1080 but it's really sharp I'm gonna show you the difference there now with this trigger 2 if you want to swing it into low mode hold it swing it down and then let it go if you want to do the parallax and again now I'm gonna flip the screen out just a little bit where she got some beefy calves or if you just want to go for a pushin money oh it's hot yeah that's like a hundred degrees and it's humid out here a 7-3 okay okay the biggest difference is you're getting a full frame with that if you're doing video just save the money and get the the three the biggest difference with the are is the megapixel count but actually for video the a seven three is technically sharper because it shoots like a six case sensor and then down samples it into 4k so the biggest difference with the R is you're getting more megapixels which is for photos but for video yeah just save the money put that in the lenses yeah just if you search TLD it'll come up t-tom Larry David know you're good TLD Tom Larry David so if you follow me on Twitter I haven't had the greatest luck with bigger Gamble's actually like smashed myself into a rock recently now I'm gonna kind of walk down the stairs and see how that rolls how you doing rich so yeah it's so much fun with the ronan ask the price for what it does is amazing i think my only complaint is that it's nearly impossible to buy right now because everybody wants one it is technically a b and h exclusive so if you preorder one I think the wait time is about one to two months so hopefully they get on top of that because I think anybody who shoots as a DSLR or mirrorless camera needs one