Customer Ratings & Reviews

As a video content creator, I've been slowly amassing camera gear whenever I can afford it. In order to capture more complex camera movements, what I really needed was a gimbal. There's only so much that the automatic image stabilization can do for a shaky video, with some solutions cropping out much of the frame in order to correct the jitter. I was originally super excited because not only could I use my GoPro cameras with this gimbal, but also my smartphone, as well as any other point and shoot camera under 400g. I really should have weighed my cameras, because although the listed weight was under, it was for the camera body only and didn't include the lens that took me over the weight limit. Since I couldn't use my nice mirrorless cameras, I went ahead and tried to fit my smartphone in the mount. The instructions were sort of confusing, because I couldn't figure out which way I should be having the phone facing. If I had the better back camera facing the same way as the AI camera, then the mount would cover the screen. If I wanted to see the screen, for example in order to actually use the GoPro phone app, then I would be forced to use the lesser quality front facing camera. Also, the mount grips along the side of the phone, which is where the power and volume buttons are, so the phone needs to be on before you attempt to attach the mount. Not only that, but the instructions say that the whole mount has to be balanced prior to turning on the power to the gimbal, and the weight distribution of my phone is such that it's only in balance bare millimeters from the end stop of the sliding bar on the adjustable mount. My tiny GoPro Hero 5 Session was much, much easier to attach to the GoPro specific mount. Setup issues aside, once I had everything in balance and turned on, using the Fluid Pro AI gimbal was a dream. While testing out the stability, I ran all around my house, turning this way and that, and the resulting footage looked like it was done on rails. The handle fit nicely in my hand, and the buttons to control the zoom and record functions of the app worked with barely any perceptible lag. The handle handily folds out into a tripod, and after setting the rig on my table, I tried out the AI focus mode. This mode lets the camera automatically swivel around after acquiring a target, and will have the camera constantly keep the subject in the frame. There is a setting to deprioritize faces, so that if you are demoing a product you can have the AI lock on to that instead, which is great for the shy product reviewers that don't want to show their face on camera. All in all, this product is a great little device for vloggers and other video content producers, especially those with much smaller crews or doing their own filming. I wish that it could hold more weight so that I could stick my APS-C mirrorless camera on it, as even an increase of 100 grams would allow so many more cameras to be used with it. The convenient case to store everything is my favorite part of the whole package.