Meet Flow, Insta360’s First Smartphone Gimbal

Modern-day flagship smartphones are fully capable of handling a bit of shake when recording a video but let’s be honest, there is so much OIS and/or EIS on a thin device can do. If you want real stable video footage, you ought to have steady hands and/or a gimbal of sorts.

Will This Sub $300 Zhiyun CRANE-M2 Handheld Gimbal Give DJI A Run For Its Money?

Claiming to be a “pioneer and a world leader in gimbals and stabilizers,” China-based Zhiyun Tech has dished out a new 3-axis handle gimbal stabilizer called Zhiyun CRANE-M2 that is set to give DJI Ronin-SC a run for its money. Zhiyun CRANE-M2 3-axis Handheld Gimbal Stabilizer is compatible with a variety of compact digital cameras …

Meet DJI’s New Single-handed 3-axis Stabilizer For Mirrorless Cameras, DJI Ronin-SC

Whether you are an amateur or pro filmmaker who uses a mirrorless camera for filming, you will want to know about the new DJI Ronin-SC Handheld Stabilizer for mirrorless cameras. When it comes to gimbal, DJI sure knows a thing or two and hence, you should expect nothing less of the new DJI Ronin-SC.

SANDMARC Announces Film Rig For Pro-style Filmmaking Using Mobile Devices

Unless you are humanoid of the future, making action footage using just your two hands isn’t going to be as stable. If you are so incline in film with, say, a smartphone like iPhone or an Android phone or an action camera like the GoPro and the Osmo Action, you are going to need a …

IndieVice Wants to Turn Your Smartphone into a Cinematic Camera

What does a professional video camera has? It has zoom functionality via handy hard buttons, excellent swappable optics, and can be outfitted with a range of accessories to suit the need, including LED flash, external microphone and more. Smartphone, on the other hand, have none of those, but it can edit and post footages on-the-fly. …

CyPhy LVL 1 Drone Achieves Level Flight without Pitching Forward, Can Be Yours for $500

These days, companies big and small can design and make drones, but if you really look at it, innovation is usually not at the top of these makers’ priority. But not for commercial drone maker CyPhy, whose first consumer drone, LVL 1, literally reinvented multi rotor drone with Level-Up Technology that enables the drone to …

Palm-sized ZANO Video Drone Quite Literally Takes Selfie to a New Height

If you take your selfie, be it still or video, very seriously, then an image with your face occupying 90 percent of the photo is far from perfect. You can always improve the situation with selfie sticks, but we’d say an imaging drone, such as the ZANO you see here, is the way to go …

CyPhy Work’s Pocket-size Imaging Drone Can Fly Up to Two Hours and Sends Lag-free HD Video

Drones share one major shortcoming with today’s smartphones; They both suffers from battery life issues that prevents users from maximizing their potentials. For drones, typical flight time averages around 15 minutes. 35 minutes, tops, for the cream of the crop, large flying rigs. Obviously, not something you would be able to slip into your pocket, …

PlexiDrone Reinvents Aerial Photography Drone, Supports Swarm with Multiple PlexiDrones

when first lay eyes on the PlexiDrone, we were like “oh ok. another beautiful flying camera”, but that changes quickly when we dig deeper. you could say, it was revelation for us and makes us want to exclaim “this is how a photography drone should be done!” honest words. one of the things that set …