Zhiyun - Smooth-X Smartphone Gimbal Stabilizer Essential Combo Kit - Black
Model: SMOOTH-X-KIT-BK
SKU: 6423811
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Customers are enthusiastic about the Smooth-X Smartphone Gimbal Stabilizer Essential Combo Kit's ease of use, affordability, and compact size, praising its ability to produce smooth videos and its functionality as a selfie stick. However, some users express frustration with the accompanying app's performance and limitations of the two-axis stabilization. A few also note compatibility issues with larger phones.
I only just got this but upon initial playing with it, it will work for my purposes. I'm a TV reporter and this will work fine for shooting b-roll, plus the extension will help me do stand ups when I don't have a coworker with me. I bought this after my DJI Mobile 2 kicked the bucket. This is comparable. I don't think I'll miss the 3rd axis for my puposes tbh. You can turn it up or down using the selfie stick part and your in app camera will smooth the footage down enough that it won't matter. You can use this without the app once it's registered. I haven't tried using it without registration. You have to flip the phone part on the side in order to get it to work. I was confused by that and I can see someone getting frustrated and thinking it was bricked because of that. I mean, yeah there are misspellings in the app and the directions but this is a Chinese product made in Hong Kong so I'm OK with it. I've been to Hong Kong and I've seen worse misspellings on credible products XD The company seems nice enough too with all the notices for customer support they put in the packaging. DJI on the other hand has crap customer service and won't help you fix anything. Can you tell I'm jaded? Lol The app is nice. I could see it being great for making short snackable videos for the web too though I haven't tried it for that purpose yet. In comparison to DJI, this app is way less bulky as DJI'S includes data for their drones for some crappy reason and that takes a lot of space and ram. Only difference I can tell on first glance is you can't go Facebook Live on this app, like you can with DJI but even when I used my stabilizer for fb live in the past i haven't used DJI'S app because the lag and battery usage was unbearable if I tried to do that. So yeah, I'm happy with it overall for now. If things change I will update this review.
Posted by Shay
Not the easiest to figure out and struggles with large phones. Does stabilize well though.
Posted by ForrestA
I bought this as our first gimbal to utilize for vlogging on the go. It's compact size is great & is an exceptional value for the sale price they are running. It is only a 2 Axis, but that works great paired qith EIS on our phones. The only downside for me is I have to remove my Note 20 Ultra from its case to use it, however I expected that to be the case as it also won't fit in my drone controller without removing the case as well. You also MUST register an account or it will not work at all. Still a great price on a good product & helps immensely with stabilization in a compact size thats easy to carry around when space in a pack is a premium.
Posted by DWink82