The handheld stabilizer (PTZ) may be unfamiliar to you. Let me introduce chicken head to you first. From the biological point of view, chicken head is a natural stabilizer. The reason why the head of the cock does not move is to keep the vision stable. When a person's head shakes severely, his eyes can still keep watching a little. However, the eyes of birds cannot move as widely as those of mammals. To ensure stable imaging, it is necessary to help stabilize the head through the cooperation of neck muscles. So the defect in the eyes led the chicken to develop this skill. Then there are really boring people who combine chicken head with extreme sports to try to achieve the cloud platform effect of professional photographers.

In fact, such products as PTZ (stabilizer) are not uncommon in the field of professional photographers. In shooting, it usually requires a long track to have a good image impact when shooting in a large range. However, the stabilizer greatly reduces the cost of shooting the same effect.

Although it can not replace the professional equipment in the hands of professional filmmakers, it can also enable minority film lovers, travel lovers, and ordinary users who want to record a moment to enjoy a "professional" stable effect. This little thing is actually very useful!

Therefore, the "semi professional", "low price" and "low threshold" products, which are positioned as recording life scenes+travel+non professional extreme sports (cycling), are more suitable for our users!

Today's protagonist SMOOTH-II is the latest mini handheld series stabilizer product from Zhiyun Yuntai Company. Three shaft motor, price 2099. Compared with the product priced at 1xxx, it is more high-end. The use effect of the product should also be better. Without much nonsense, the article first presents the evaluation video and video effect demonstration video for your reference:

(The video content includes unpacking, hands-on, use guide, hands-on display for small white users, anti shake effect display, and a complete recording effect)

1、 Unpacking&Detail Analysis:

The product packaging box is large, with promotional selling points on the front and simple accessories and product descriptions on the back.

It can support 6.5 inch mobile phones at most. Basically, there is no pressure on the mobile phones of market manufacturers. (except millet max)

In terms of parameters, it supports mobile phones with a maximum weight of 200g, and its battery capacity is up to 3400mAh. The official endurance is 5h. In my actual experience, continuous recording for more than an hour will not realize that the endurance is not enough. In addition, the 18650 battery can be easily replaced and the mobile power supply can be used, so the endurance problem will not be discussed later.

In fact, there are many product accessories, including counterweight, instructions and charging lines. But the most expected hard storage bag did not appear. To be honest, it is not convenient to put this thing in the backpack. After all, it is deformed and can move around. It is recommended that the standard storage bag be equipped, or the official storage with reasonable price be launched!

The attached data line has a customized logo, and the quality of the wire is also good.

The surface of the fuselage is made of black matte metal. The texture is very good in the hand. The damping feeling when the front rocker is pressed and shaken is just right. Neither too heavy will affect the holding stability, nor too light will affect the operating feeling.

However, an "early warning" is needed here. The rocker button of the Zhiyun generation product used by a friend before was broken and fell off due to insufficient consideration of plastic materials. I hope that the second generation of smooth will not have similar problems.

The two buttons on the side are made of yellow metal. The key switch has a solid feel, and the sound sounds high-level.

The contact position with the mobile phone is covered with soft sponge. It avoids scratching the phone, and of course it is clamped more tightly.

The details are really outrageous. Not only is the texture of black metal matte good. Even the highlight chamfer of the bottom triangular thread curtain is very beautiful. 1/4 universal screw can be matched with various accessories, such as tripod, extension rod, etc.

The back of the handle is a USB interface and a charging indicator. The blinking blue indicator in standby mode shows the power. One to four flashes represent different amounts of electricity.

That's all for the unpacking part. What is very commendable is that Zhiyun has done a good job in product functions as well as appearance, texture and packaging. People who first come into contact with such products (my family and friends) tend to marvel at the functions and have a high sense of recognition for the workmanship and texture. I can't help but feel that the two thousand yuan is worth it! If you have a little interest in photography, you will definitely buy it!

2、 Operating principle:

As a three-axis stabilizer, Zhiyun's mechanical structure is not complicated. It can be seen from the figure that the core components are the three motor shafts that can rotate freely.

The general principle is to obtain the data from the three-axis gyroscope and three-axis acceleration sensor (that is, the main topic of the six axis bar) to calculate the tilt angle, and then use the tilt angle data through the pid algorithm to figure out how much control should be given to the motor.

The maximum rotation angle and maximum rotation speed that the three shafts of the second generation of smooth can bear are shown in the video on the top, and will not be repeated in the article.

Although the principle is simple, the core competitiveness of each PTZ is here. Although PID, brushless motor, pulse PWM fine tuning, gyroscope, BGC master control, these deeper things I do not know. If you have used the PTZ for a long time and feel that it is not easy to use, you can gradually move towards commercial professional products! However, I am good at analyzing actual experience.

3、 Experience:

The general use process is:

Adjusting the counterweight - starting - shooting - shutting down after shooting

Yes, it's that simple. It should be noted here that the official recommendation is to add a counterweight to the size and weight of the 6plus mobile phone. The "most common" iPhone 6 on the market is a welfare product, which does not need to adjust the counterweight at all. After installation, it is the most balanced and power saving state! If the motor is equipped with a sleeve for 6 or 6s, it will not be able to maintain balance by itself, but the motor can maintain stability by itself without adjusting the counterweight.

The above figure shows the disassembly demonstration effect of counterweight.

Press and hold the power key to start the machine automatically. After starting the machine, the default state is follow mode.

There are also many rocker functions:

1. Click to switch between follow and lock modes

2. Double click to switch between full follow and current mode

3. Three click switch between self timer mode and current mode (new function after updating V1.50 firmware)

4. In the self timer mode, the following, locking and full following modes can be switched by single double clicking

5. In various modes, you can control the orientation of the phone through the rocker. For directions available in different modes and more tips, see the video recorded at the top.

6. Long press for three seconds to enter standby mode, and short press for one second to start again. If calibration is required, standby mode is also required.

Two stars of difficulty:

For Xiaobai users, the working characteristics of various modes and suitable shooting scenes can be mastered in less than five minutes.

High temperature environment operation:

Although a little nitpicking, if you are outdoors in summer, the pure black body will not only absorb heat, but also slip after sweating.

However, in actual use, when the outdoor temperature is up to 35 degrees and the machine is used continuously for more than 40 minutes, the machine does not stop working because of the high temperature. On the contrary, people could not support it first.

Mobile App:

Zhiyun has made two software for this PTZ. The Zhiyun handheld assistant is universal.

Functions include parameter viewing, parameter adjustment, working mode and status adjustment, and stabilizer calibration when necessary.

During the use, the stabilizer has a firmware change. The function has been improved and added. For example, it has added turning back (self timer mode). Although I know that all mobile phones now have front facing cameras, I really think it must be useful since it has been added, but I haven't grasped its gist yet! It seems that although it is not difficult to use this product, the longer I use it, the more I can find that it has many powerful functions that I have not found before!

In addition, this product also has a unique product called Zhiyun camera. The update is timely, and the interface and functions are constantly improving. At present, it has simple functions such as taking photos, recording, focusing, switching modes, switching front and rear cameras, etc. This software can be easily operated through the two side keys on the stabilizer! This is why I am willing to use this software despite its rough advantages.

In our daily travel and recording life scenes, overhead shooting, follow shooting, panoramic photos, which require more stability and angle, can be easily completed through the stabilizer.

Here is a panorama shot with Glory V8 and Zhiyun PTZ, although the picture may not be beautiful. But the convenience is really good!

If you want to be the main equipment for digital products to be recorded out of the box, you also need to equip the PTZ with a tripod that can adjust the angle. My is already on the way. It is estimated that many of the product videos in the future will be shot with Zhiyun Cloud Platform!

*In fact, there are many points in use (such as vertical use, focusing in app, etc.). The use of text is not intuitive enough, so please refer to the two videos in the article for interested friends!

4、 A little summary:

Many initial questions about this product have been answered in this trial experience.

Good enough appearance and texture, low enough difficulty in getting started, reasonable enough price, and practical enough functions are all things that I am very satisfied with this SMOOTH-II. Although I don't know the working principle so well, I just need to know that with my own mobile phone, I can shoot stable and beautiful video pictures! It would be better if we could improve our level towards micro film while recording life clips!

There is also a little immature suggestion to Zhiyun:

1. Regularly push the use records and experience of high-end players' photography enthusiasts on Weibo or WeChat official account, so that users can constantly learn photography skills. In this way, curiosity about products can be maintained for a long time. If the content of the article is good enough, a group of more high-end players may be cultivated. Aren't these users also potential consumers of your company's high-end products in the future

2. Listen to the voice of users. We still need a small hard portable storage box.

If you happen to like digital products and want to take some out of the box videos, and if you also want to use higher quality videos to record your travel clips, you can try this SmartCloud Smooth - Ⅱ mobile platform! It is a good choice for texture, ease of use and function!

Finally, thank Zhiyun and Love to play computer games This evaluation trial activity!