and until next time, make it a good one guys,
later!
And that’s a wrap! Finally!
dude it’s like 5 am, you finally finished?
Yeh I just wanted to make sure I didn’t
stutter any of my lines you know.
Well you ain’t gonna get it perfect every
time.
Bruh,Look at this comment
What’s this?
That GoPro footage look like you tend to step
with your heels with intentional shakes with
Ronin SC compared to GoPro footage of Weebill
S. Looks bias!”
What?
Yeh I know!
Which clip is he talking about?
It’s this one
Ohh yeh that’s one of my old gimbal comparison
videos!
Dude I worked so hard on that video to try
to make it fair…
Which footage did you actually record first tho?
I think Weebill S.
Haha dude you need to do more cardio
Yeh I did like 3-4 takes, but I guess I can
understand the guy
What?
Dude he straight up called you a liar without
even knowing you.
You should totally say his name on screen
and call him out.
Nah, you can’t judge a man with just one
comment.
Besides, this is the problem with all the
YouTube gimbal tests.
You really can’t step exactly the same way
each time you test different gimbals you know, especially
if you’re out of shape apparently.
Well that’s gonna be a problem then.
Aren’t you supposed to be comparing the
new Crane 2S footage to the Ronin S?
Yeh that IS gonna be a problem.
Unless if you could build a rig that’s strong
and light enough to carry two gimbals at the
same time and if you could somehow track the
test footage from both gimbals and export
that into a spreadsheet data where you can
calculate and score the result in a mathematical
way?
Yeaahh, that sounds impossible.
You go ahead and do that.
I’m gonna go hang out with Gerald Undone.
By the way you got a package from Lensrentals.com
Sweet! Perfect timing
Let’s build this thing!
Alright guys, I have the final calculated
scores for Crane 2S and Ronin S right here,
but before I reveal the result, I want to
explain how the test was conducted because
I was even shocked by the numbers right here.
So the camera setup I put on both gimbals
were Sony A7 III with Sigma 24-70 DG DN, which
is my go to setup now but fairly on the heavy
side at 1485 grams or 3.27 pounds.
I’ll need to thank Lensrentals.com for providing
me with the second camera setup.
I’ll do a whole new episode about renting
vs buying gear, but for one time gear use
like this, renting is definitely the way to
go.
I’ll leave their website info along with
my 15% coupon code right down in the description, if
you guys ever need to rent gear in the US.
Alright, so for this setup, I took the time
and really balanced both the gimbal at 42mm
which is what I usually do for my run
and gun video shoots since I can reach
24mm or 70 mm quickly without rebalancing the
whole gimbal.
I had the infamous GoPro Hero 4 without image
stabilization on my chest and RX100 on top
of the rig so you can see how much shake there
is, but I purposely did not do the ninja walk,
since I wanted to push these gimbals to the
limit, at the same time!
I ran up and down the tennis court several
times, but here is what the synced sample
footage looks like at 42mm and both gimbals
were in lock mode since Pan Follow mode would
have turned the gimbals with different sensitivity.
Now for the real stress test.
Straight from there, I change the focal length
to 70 mm.
In a real wedding shoot, this would have been
the case where the bride’s dog is in the
wedding party and is all the sudden too far
away.
Bam!
70 mm for the both gimbals and now the dog
is moving.
Here you can really start to tell which motor
is much more responsive and stronger, but
still subjective.
Don’t worry we’re going to put a number
to this movement.
So when I got home, I got to work.
I synced all the footage to each other down
to a frame.
Tracked the yellow X in each of the tests
footage,
and exported the X axis and Y axis position
data per frame onto a spreadsheet.
I then took the delta of each frame and averaged
it out as the final score.
You guys ready for the actual score?
If you still think this score is not fair,
stick around and I’ll share with you all
the things I considered to make this as accurate
as possible.
Now keep in mind that 0 is the perfect score
where the yellow X is completely still and
doesn’t move.
Here we go, at 42 mm Ronin S scored 0.75 and
Crane 2S scored 0.51.
And here is the kicker.
At 70mm Ronin S scored 1.73 and Crane 2S scored…..
0.7.
That’s 59.5% better performance.
That’s where I was really impressed, it’s
like Crane 2S didn’t care you just zoomed
a heavy lens.
I knew Crane 2S had their new 9th intune motor
algorithm but I wasn’t sure HOW much better
it was just by looking at the footage.
So that my friends is the new next level gimbal
test, and I think we can agree that the gimbal
smoothness comparison test will never be the
same again on this channel.
I need a good name for it tho.
Square Pace Test?
Se’s Objective Gimbal Integration Test?
 
Nah, how about Walk in the Se Park Gimbal
Test?
Yeh! I’m just gonna go with that one for now,
but let me know in the comments, if you got
a better name.
Since this is the first “Walk in the Se
Park Gimbal Test”, I’ll share the things
I had to consider to increase the accuracy
of this test:
Obviously first is making sure that the two
identical cameras have the exact same settings.
I shot both at 120 fps for better frame calculation
data with auto focus off so it doesn’t hunt
in the middle of the shoot.
IBIS of course was also turned off.
I also made sure that the lens support bracket
were on both gimbals on the exact same spot
so the camera isn’t jittering on the mount.
I did auto calibrate both gimbals at 42mm
focal lengths just like I would in real life,
and I even made sure that the batteries were
full on both gimbals just in case it would
under voltage towards the end of the battery
life.
Lastly delta was calculated always from the
previous position rather than the initial
starting position, and X and Y axis were calculated
separately since smoothness in our eyes are
defined by each consecutive frame rather than
where you started the frame with.
I think one thing I could have done better
is maybe not run towards the target.
I had to do multiple runs back and forth,
and I could have done more rounds if I wasn’t
so tired after 6 rounds of running.
Gimbal won’t care if I am actually run
or just shake in one place.
I’ll keep refining this test, but let me
know in the comments if there is anything
else I should do to make this test even better.
And guys this is just one aspect about two
gimbals.
There is more to it than a straight line raw
power and smooth algorithm of course.
You just gotta educate yourself on what’s
important to you and pick out the best gimbal
that meets that
There are plenty of videos about Ronin S,
but if you want to know more about Crane 2S,
I did an initial impression review video right
here, and I will also be doing a full long
term review video soon.
Meanwhile, I’ll see what else I can revolutionize
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Thank you so much for joining my journey guys, and until next time, make it a good one, later!
