From the course: Video Gear: Support & Grip

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Using a gimbal for a smartphone or GoPro

Using a gimbal for a smartphone or GoPro

From the course: Video Gear: Support & Grip

Using a gimbal for a smartphone or GoPro

- There's a whole new category of gimbals coming out these days for smartphones and action cameras and what we have here is one from ikan. And Rob, you actually turned me onto this product. - Yeah, you know I found myself shooting my kids around the house a lot or outside playing at the park and you know those kind of things, and those are memories that I want to keep of course, but being the perfectionist that I am, I was continually getting frustrated when I came home-- - Where's the jib? - Right, continually got home and go oh man, that's bumpy and shakey. And you know, there's a lot of good that the camera's can do themselves with built-in image stabilization and things of that nature, but this setup is actually pretty good. As you mentioned, this is an ikan. This is the FLY-X3-Plus. There's an older X3, but this is the new improved version of it. And this is a pretty heavy duty unit. - Yeah and it comes with two different mounting points. - Yeah so this is for a phone, which is…

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