Feiyu Tech Gimbal AK4500: Let’s discuss video!

The FeiyuTech AK4500 is important if you wish to create a high-quality, easy video whereas touring. With out it, you’ll be able to’t get by with out utilizing a gimbal except you might have extraordinarily regular arms.

The FeiyuTech AK4500 (available to purchase on Amazon) is a three-axis motor gimbal that weighs 1.6kg and which has a loopy payload capability of 4,6kg. Prepare your arms to go for the total weight. Onerous to imagine how easily it runs for a very long time, because it bought a 12-hour battery life!

Let’s begin with the case. The FeiyuTech AK4500 Gimbal comes with an additional laborious foam carrying case that features the 4 lithium batteries, the charger, cables to attach, a tripod, an extension deal with, a flexible deal with body (I’ll clarify extra later), fast launch plate, a lens supporter, a observe focus and a hyperlink controller that means that you can wi-fi management the gimbal.

You would get the impression that you just’re a Darth Vader videographer!

The FeiyuTech AK4500 gimbal comes with a great rubber grip and a customizable perform wheel, which you should use to maneuver the digital camera or use as a observe focus. Then there’s an extension deal with, tripod (with a rubber cowl, so you’ll be able to have a greater grip) and a flexible deal with body, that means that you can join the extension deal with, tripod or the hyperlink controller.

This versatile deal with body is actually good if you wish to movie close to the ground or simply for travelling and carrying it between totally different places, because it makes carrying the gimbal very easy.

Let’s discuss mounting and balancing the gimbal.

Balancing a gimbal could be a ache and it’s often simply time consuming, although it’s so essential to do it correctly.

The FeiyuTech guys added a second plate, so you’ll be able to connect this one on to your digital camera and use it as a fast launch system. Like that, as soon as your digital camera is balanced, you don’t must undergo the identical course of time and again. Such a easy resolution. That is beautiful and such an enormous time saver. Thumps up for FeiyuTech!

Every motor of the FeiyuTech AK4500 gimbal comes with a locking system. So you’ll be able to stability every motor individually, which makes it simpler not solely to stability but additionally to retailer your system. You can even detach the deal with of the gimbal, so it will get smaller whereas touring.

Top-of-the-line options on the gimbal is the contact display. You need to use it for therefore many features, with out utilizing an app. There’s an app that provides you further performance, however I desire simply to make use of the contact display with out connecting my cellphone. However it’s value to attach the digital camera with the gimbal through Bluetooth!

The contact display

The contact display offers you entry to totally different modes: Default, Clean, Motion and Customise. These present the choices to regulate no matter velocity you need the gimbal to show. Then there are payload settings and calibration.

There’s additionally an Inception Mode, during which on you’ll be able to set the velocity, the aspect that you just wanna flip. And there’s even the choice for an infinite rotation mode, for the these stylish 360º rotations. The Portrait Mode is for selfie vlogger movies, however you will have to stretch your arm and level the digital camera to you, in order that doesn’t work very properly.

In Movement Timelapse you’ll be able to pre save strikes together with your digital camera to create nice timelapses.

However it’s additionally good for different video types, because it’s a cool characteristic, for those who’re alone filming, and don’t need plain pictures with no motion. With this selection you’ll be able to set the start off the shoot after which go to the top, press OK and the gimbal routinely strikes.

Voila!

Total the FeiyuTech AK4500 is likely one of the greatest gimbals I’ve ever used thus far (available to purchase on Amazon).