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Not much use
Unable to get video from camera into ipad.
The remote control has no camera functions.James Bowater
It’s ok but...
This works fine with the two gimbals I’ve tried, Smooth 4 and Smooth-Q2. It is however absolutely impossible to install the firmware update for Smooth-Q2 (and I’m guessing Smooth 4 as well), always results in “upload failed”. Using iPhone 11, latest iOS. What gives Zhiyun?ChrisE1G
Crane 3 Lab lack of “sync mode”
I own a Crane 3 Lab that is the most expensive gimbal from this company and it’s incredible that doesn’t have features that cheaper version does. I don’t think is about technical issues but because they forgot already this model and are focused more on the other ones. Please include this “sync mode” in the future update. I will change my rate to five stars at that time. For now...Show lessansanchez
Cannot connect
went to setup everything and connect to ZY Play app. The phone connected and immediately suggested a firmware update. I updated and as soon as the update was complete the connection was lost and I am unable to reconnect. Without the app this thing has no real control and is loose as hell. I can only imagine it’s better with the corresponding app but I don’t know. I tried re-installing app, restarting phone...etc, with no results. Now stuck with a $120 piece of $&@#! Thanks ZHIYUN!🙄Show lessThe critical
Auto tracking is useless
Auto tracking is useless.Ozballista
Where is motion sensor control?
I really like this gimbal overall, but the app is hit and miss. First off, it seems zhiyun has removed the motion sensor control function which allows you to access the accelerometer on your phone to control the gimbal like the movi mimic. If anyone knows where it is now, please let me know! Otherwise, everything seems ok, and connection speed has improved.Show lessHellohogo
Update does not let me flip camera
The app was working fine but ever since the most recent update I can’t flip the camera from selfie mode. Every time I try, it prompts me to connect via Bluetooth but when I do there is no way to flip the camera to record.Mac and no Donald
ZY Play Gets It Done!
This is an awesome app! The only problem I had was sorting through how to use it and transfer files to Photos. The instructions are extensive and a bit hard to follow, but everything you need is there. When I discovered how simple it was I laughed out loud. I have read reviews attacking the software by people who do not want to invest the time to figure it out. I did, and I could not be more please. This device is incredible, the pictures it takes are amazing because it is so easy to use your iPhone to shot. Video is also amazing, smooth, tracking, and better than anything I have ever used before.Show lessOriginalMasonPrime
Information Gathering
Do not install this app!
It seems to be made primarily to gather information about you and your device. I played around with it for about 30 minutes looking for the utility, but at no point did I ever see the utility for operating the gimbal itself. The App wants information and access to all your photos, your location, and your microphone, plus it wants you to sign up for an account. I finally relented to the account signup using a Facebook Account with not much information on it, but even Facebook rejected the signup. I gradually also allowed it access to the photos, mic, and location and that opened up a little more info but still no controls for the gimbal. There are video tutorials, a way to connect with other users by joining some social media thing of theirs, and an operating manual download within the app, as well as information about their other products, but no actual controls to adjust or operate the gimbal. I even tried to download the Mac utility to see if that would work. This package comes directly from their website and not the app store. It was unsigned and not recognized by apple. Very suspicious, and disappointing. I would just stick with the onboard controls built into Gimbal and forget about being able to do more with this thing. I also uninstalled the app.Show lessMendo Dave
Keyframes for video, Joystick ease out setting
need camera keyframe animation without having to control camera shutter! (E.g. for Video) it’s nice to be able to set keyframes but then it didn’t work when click start to play back the animation since we are not using a shutter cable...
We want this for video capture so we can program moves and our camera doesn’t have a camera control cable! We can just trigger record manually in that case. Doing a preview move doesn’t work either. In video mode it shouldn’t require a camera cable! All this works on DJI.
Timelapse should also allow setting zoom and focus keyframe!
Joystick move does not provide an ease out option so movements are quite harsh.
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Minor annoyances:
- during firmware update, the app wouldn’t connect automatically anymore t WiFi. Had to manually connect WiFi to the crane 3 then it worked. Overall a little fickle with the connection.
- At first thought we can just click the device on the list of found gimbals but only later realized that one has to click “Camera”. If the gimbal is listed but no checkbox yet and one clicks camera, one gets into a camera app for the iPhone camera. Irritating ...
- got irritated by all those pictures of gimbals at first and thought that have to scroll to the right one to connect. We don’t want photo sharing / social networking.
We need a professional gimbal control app with working motion control/keyframing and ways to smoothen joystick movements.Show lessShare47
