This video is Part 1 of my videos about the Weebill S.
I talk you through how to balance it quickly and properly and give you a walkthrough of all the modes.
I also show you how it can handle the Panasonic S1, a 24-105mm lens, multiple accessories and attachments.
Part 2 of this video: Weebill S ULTIMATE Review with sample footage // PART 2 – Ballys Realm – The Website!
Weebill S Accessories video: Weebill S Accessories – Ballys Realm – The Website!
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So the best way to balance this gimbal is to do one axis at a time. Now each axis can be locked independently that allows you to then do just the one axis and not be influenced by whatever the balance is on the other ones.
So in the case of let’s say the first one, which is the tilt axis, and that is so called because the camera will tilt forward or backwards, is to make sure that like I have here, the camera, once the axis is unlocked, remains facing forward like this.
So an incorrectly balanced camera will, for example, depending on whether the camera is too far back, so it’s back heavy, or whether it’s too far forward, therefore it’s front heavy, so that is back heavy because it’s gone backwards in the direction of the back of the camera. And then if you had a camera which is too front forward, aka front heavy, it would go front ways. So what you do is you adjust these little, you just loosen up these little levers and move the camera backwards or forwards depending on which way it’s falling. So that the ultimate goal, as I mentioned, is to get this balanced on its own like this.
Now I have a zoom lens on here and one of the tricks that I’ve picked up is to zoom the zoom lens out about halfway because in that way when you do zoom out or zoom back in, you’re not putting that much tension on the motors because I’ve had it whereby I’ve balanced it with the zoom lens completely in at the widest angle that it can be. And then when you go to zoom out, it’s too much weight on the motors, therefore it starts to beep and becomes unbalanced. So as you can see here, I’ve got mine halfway zoomed out.
The next part that you need to make sure is balanced is if you tilt the camera upwards, it needs to face upwards without any issues. Now again, same principle, if the camera goes this way or that way, there is an arm here which you can slide up and down. So if it’s falling backwards, then you need to slide the arm down to try and balance it and vice versa. If it’s falling this way, then you need to push the arm upwards in order to get this to face upwards without any issues. So that is now your tilt axis fully balanced.
Now let’s move on to the next axis. So we need to lock the tilt axis so that doesn’t interfere with the balancing of the next axis which is the roll axis. So the roll axis needs to, once you’ve unlocked it, it needs to stay balanced like this. Let me just move this here so that you can see.
So for example, if this falls this way or if this falls this way, you adjust the camera using another lever and you can move the camera further out if it’s too heavy on this side or you move it more towards the arm if it’s too heavy on the outside. Now my particular camera, the Panasonic S1, is extremely, well, I’d class it a heavy mirrorless camera.
So I needed a counterweight to offset that. So if I don’t have a counterweight, my camera is just going to flip to the side. So this counterweight, as I’ve said in my previous video about all the accessories, makes this camera, plus I think certain types like Black Magic as well, is also a rather left heavy camera. And it allows it to balance, as you can see here.
Now the final axis that needs to be balanced is the pan axis. And this is called the pan axis because it controls the pan, aka left or right, of the camera. Now originally I found this particular axis the hardest to balance. Even all the videos out there that I watched, they just kind of left me confused. And then I figured out the best way to do it and I’m going to show you that now.
So what you do is you lock the other two axis so that the only unlocked one is the pan axis. And you just lift up the gimbal and put it on its side. Now as you can see, mine stayed where it is. It’s not gone forward or it’s not gone backwards because this means that my one is balanced correctly. But what you do is if your one isn’t balanced properly, then you just undo this little lever here and make micro adjustments. I mean micro adjustments because it does matter how much you adjust it by. Even the tiniest of adjustments will make it go one way or another.
So make micro adjustments to this and once you’ve achieved what I have, you have all three axis balanced correctly. You know that your camera is fully balanced when you can point it in any direction and it stays there. So this is a fully balanced gimbal. It just stays in that direction. If you’re enjoying this video and finding it useful, then make sure you hit the like button and please don’t forget to subscribe if you haven’t already.
Now once you’ve balanced the gimbal, the next thing you want to do is turn it on. So the power button is on the left hand side and you just hold it down until you see the Zhiyun logo. And first thing I do is I go straight into the menu and then I go to motor and then I do an auto tune. So that will basically collaborate all three motors depending on the weight of the camera that you have. And that’s a really neat feature so you don’t have to kind of dial in all the settings according to what you think the camera weighs. This will automatically sense it and just sort it out for you.
Once that’s been set up, you then want to go back into the menu and you want to go to camera and select the make of your camera so that that way you have control of your camera on the actual handle of the Weeble S. So you can record, you can take a picture, you can control the like for example my Panasonic, you can control the ISO, you can control the aperture and you can control the shutter speed all from the Weeble S itself without having to touch the camera. Now the gimbal has got six modes.
The first mode is the pan follow mode. This means that when you pan left or right, the gimbal will follow your direction. However, if you move forwards or backwards, the camera will not tilt up or down, and it will stay facing the same direction.
The next mode is the lock mode. To activate it, you just flip the switch on the side. When you’re pointed at something, the camera will stay locked on that subject no matter how you move your hand. So, even if you move left, right, forward, or backward, the camera will stay focused on the subject you locked it onto.
The gimbal also has POV mode, which allows the camera to move in any direction you point it at. When you activate POV mode, you can move the camera in random directions, and it will follow your movements.
Go mode is like POV mode, but it’s more responsive. So, when you point the camera in a particular direction, it moves faster than in the other modes.
Follow mode is activated by pressing the button on the front of the gimbal. When you press this button, the camera will follow the direction you’re pointing it at.
Finally, there’s vortex mode. By pressing the POV button twice, you can access this mode, which allows you to do barrel rolls.
One very useful feature of this gimbal is that you can put it into underslung mode, which means you don’t have to hold it upright with your hand. You can hold it from the top handle and capture low-angle shots.
If you want to center the gimbal, you just press the front trigger twice. If you want to put it into selfie mode and capture yourself, you press the front trigger three times. You can either press and hold the buttons to activate a mode, or you can change it in the menu to press once and then press again to exit that mode.
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