DJI Ronin-S + Sony A7 III = AMAZING #Helpful Post

ere guys johnathan here today I'm

showing off what is my favorite gadget

of 2018 so far I realize there's plenty

of time left in the year but there's

been nothing that's given me this much

fun at all this year it's actually what

is being used to record this video right

now the DJI Ronin s now also quick

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so while that footage was captured on

the Aurora s and Sony a7 3 and if you

come my behind the scenes on the Elon

Musk mkbhd interview everything there

was also captured used in this setup the

Ronin s is a motorized 3 axis gimbal

meant to stabilize DSLRs and melas

cameras so again in my case I've a setup

with the Sony a7 3 but it'll take a

payload up to 8 pounds so in this case

mr. Brannon håvard has a 1 DX balance

which is a pretty heavy set   I am

by no means an expert but here are some

tips that I found helpful when balancing

the camera so the number one tip I can

give you is make sure this bottom plate

is properly tight and you don't want

this loose and falling around because

that will 100% screw you up first step

is to make sure this is unlocked right

here we're going to slide that in and

the way I've kind of done it is the

first step is I will balance it this way

so I'm gonna hold this with my hand and

kind of just use that to kind of feel

out the balance once I get somewhat

close I'll kind of lock it and then see

how that goes so that's good from there

the next thing I want to do is see how

it balances pointing up so looking at

that it's a little bottom heavy so what

I'm gonna do is give it just like a

little slight adjustment and that's

really the key here it's just like the

game of like minut adjustments I'm gonna

lock this back up see how that works and

see now we're top-heavy so

keep it just like the little bit of

adjustment that's pretty good

I'm gonna go back to the front and back

that's solid and the next thing I'm

gonna check is the side to size so we're

definitely leaning to the left so the

way I'm going to compensate is here

unlock and if it's going this way this

is the way we want to go you got to have

a lot of patience for this like any

little small thing will throw you off

and now I'm going to the right so that

seems good that's not bad so again the

goal here is to get it as balanced as

possible with the motors off that way

when the motors are on they're gonna do

minimal work and that's really the way

you want to go now for a lighter setup

like this or if you're using a zeiss

batis i would say this part here for the

most part is going to be all the way

down and then from there now we can

power on the motor and things should be

good to go

 

now there's a Ronan app that you're

gonna want to download to your phone

this is gonna help make sure we balanced

everything correctly there's a built-in

balance task which is really helpful and

that way if you happen to be off on your

tilt your roll or anything else it's

gonna let you know so head over to

configuration settings more balance

tests and then it's gonna kind of Auto

do its thing and make sure everything is

uniform and working perfectly so here we

can see tilt excellent roll excellent

pan excellent so if you were off it

would let you know next from there the

next thing I want to do is head over to

motion parameters select Auto Tune and

that's just kind of my rule of thumb for

every time i balance this with a new

setup if you're going for like the same

setup again I wouldn't do this too much

but just showing you what works for me

so we're locked and loaded ready to go

one of my favorite moves with this is

the parallax where you try to focus on

the object in the center of the frame

you can take it a step further and kind

of go for that 360 vibes which I'm gonna

show you now so rich is our lovely demo

I got him locked in the center and you

really want to be like light on your

feet

 

I got a pull so I'm gonna try to stay

around that and again I'm just trying to

get better with this but it's good

practice just pick an object keep it in

the center of the frame

be light on your feet and you're good to

go now quick tip with this if you ever

want to get back to the center point or

you're starting zero point just double

tap this it's gonna bring you there if

you want to do straight moves not kind

of go for that parallax move hold it

while you're walking into the subject or

away so again I'm gonna demo rich walk

back here find where he is that I'm

gonna hold it lock it and then I'm just

gonna walk in there so I got rich locked

loaded I'm going to walk back tree walk

forward and yeah that is so much fun

this wide-angle lens is like kind of

crazy on here now this is 4k 24 frames

per second but if you were rockin

slow-mo it's like a whole different

beast and way way more fun now this

video is kind of like a two and one yes

the Ronin s so far is my favorite gadget

but it's also kind of paired with my

maybe second favorite gadget the Sony a7

3-wood for the money I think is honestly

the best camera of 2018 so far next I'm

gonna hop over to snq mode 120 frames

per second is 1080 but it's really sharp

I'm gonna show you the difference there

now with this trigger 2 if you want to

swing it into low mode hold it swing it

down and then let it go if you want to

do the parallax and again now I'm gonna

flip the screen out just a little bit

where she got some beefy calves

 

or if you just want to go for a pushin

money oh it's hot yeah that's like a

hundred degrees and it's humid out here

a 7-3 okay okay the biggest difference

is you're getting a full frame with that

if you're doing video just save the

money and get the the three the biggest

difference with the are is the megapixel

count but actually for video the a seven

three is technically sharper because it

shoots like a six case sensor and then

down samples it into 4k so the biggest

difference with the R is you're getting

more megapixels which is for photos but

for video yeah just save the money put

that in the lenses yeah just if you

search TLD it'll come up t-tom Larry

David know you're good

TLD Tom Larry David so if you follow me

on Twitter I haven't had the greatest

luck with bigger Gamble's actually like

smashed myself into a rock recently now

I'm gonna kind of walk down the stairs

and see how that rolls

 

how you doing rich

 

so yeah it's so much fun with the ronan

ask the price for what it does is

amazing i think my only complaint is

that it's nearly impossible to buy right

now because everybody wants one it is

technically a b and h exclusive so if

you preorder one I think the wait time

is about one to two months so hopefully

they get on top of that because I think

anybody who shoots as a DSLR or

mirrorless camera needs one