![]() Tolerance for small changes in balance like lenses extending while zooming or focusing.Exchangeable batteries, preferably standardized ones.Enough range for adjustment with heavy or long lenses. ![]() Acceptable weight for one-hand operation or an optional double handle.Fast balancing without tools (which are easily mislaid or forgotten).Apart from the weight limit – which is not as simple to judge as you may think – there are lots of smaller, but important points: My main criteria are all those connected with ease of use in a serious production, not something for people who are into fiddling with new technologies. ![]() But now there is the Zhiyun Crane for a test flight … To get a gimbal for day-to-day use in a professional environment you needed considerably more money to buy products from Freefly or DJI. Even then the gimbal would start to vibrate erratically if you needed a steeper vertical angle or only bumped into something. You’d have to adapt control parameters too after any change of weight and that needed even more patience until it became stable. Not only mechanical balance with the help of a hexagon key was fiddly and needed high precision. It has been a year and a half that I tested a Pilotfly H1 and you needed a lot of time to make it ‚fly‘ decently stable. Here we go: The Zhiyun Crane Z1 – How Good is a Chinese Gimbal Now? ![]() Having done an article for "Digital Production" in German, I decided to translate it for you.
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