 Hello everyone, this is Ahmed Dan of AhmedDan.com. Today I'll have another episode of unboxing and review video and I'll be opening the Geoone Smooth 5 gimbal. If this is your first time or if you visit, thank you for your support on this channel. I'm always trying new and different ideas. If you're into thinking outside the box, this is the channel to subscribe. If you're only looking for review videos, there will be links in the description box below. I just got this gimbal today and this is still in the box, so I'm just going to open it up and see what's inside and then I'll do some testing and I'll attach it to the clip. So the box looks very simple. There's not much on it. I just mentioned the name which is right here and then you can see that you know a smooth 5 and that's all there is. So it's just like in a very simple packaging. So I'm just going to open up the box and see what we have inside. So it looks like we have a sticker or tape right here. So I just have to cut this here. So let me just get a little scissor. Okay, so I'm just going to open it up and it looks like I actually opened it reverse way. So it should be like this and once we open this, so you have a service card and this is just you know to contact Zhiyun and then we have a brochure. So it looks like they attached a actually nice brochure with all the instructions. So we'll just set it aside and then here we have the gimbal. So I'm just going to you know take it out and put it in here and then looks like we have USB-C cable and then here we have the tripod or the mini tripod and the box should be empty. As you can see there's nothing inside. So here we have the gimbal and this is how it looks like right out of the box and I haven't done anything yet. So I'll just you know leave it here and then once like you know I charge and go through everything then I'll do the second part of the video. Thank you. And this is the second part of the video and I'll just go over some of the you know things I found out about this gimbal and how to balance the gimbal. So the first thing I would like to show that this gimbal has the capability to lock every mode and this come this comes in very handy when you're traveling so it doesn't like you know dangle around in your bag. So in order to do that you're going to have to just here there's a lock button. So what do you do? You just match these two and then if you just kind of slide it on the left then you can see that you know this part is locked and then here you have to lock this portion and in order to do that you're going to kind of like you know match this mark here with this and if you just kind of slide gently like this and you can hear the click and you can see that this is locked and now you have to lock this part and here you're going to see that there's this you know portion and this part so if you just kind of like match them together so let's see if I can see so if you match them together and kind of gently push and you're going to hear a click button click sound so here now you can see that the gimbal is not moving anymore and this is very handy when you travel so I'm just going to unlock everything one by one so here I'm just going to put it to the right and then you can see that this is moving right now and then I'm just going to put this portion slide it to the left and then like this and you can see that you know it's moving right now and then here this part I'm just going to push it to this part here so I'm just going to push it to the left gently and it should you should hear a click noise and you can see that you know this is moving right now so now the gimbal is totally unlocked and in order to balance the gimbal so you have to just you know take your phone you don't even need to cover uncover the phone cover or uncover or remove the phone cover so what you have to do you have to just make sure the camera is going to be staying on this side and there should be an arrow right here which is kind of very difficult to see but you can see that there's like a small arrow right here and you're just going to kind of like you know put it this way so if you just slide it here and now you're just going to have to you know move this whole part for example this portion right here so if you just you know unlock this position and then slide it to the left or right so once you put it in and if you slide it to the left or right that's going to balance your gimbal so you cannot see the whole thing because of the you know there's a space problem but that's how basically it works so once you kind of like you know move it to the let's say left or right and you have an idea that you know the gimbal is balanced then you can just like you know lock this button so now what you can do you can just turn it on and in order to do that you have to just press this button right here and you have to kind of hold it for a few seconds and I did that okay so now you see that you know the gimbal is on the phone and which is right here it's and it's balanced and then here some of the buttons are I'm planning to do another video in terms of the buttons because you know today it's just kind of review video so this is going to move your phone to the upper or lower part so if you can see here but this button kind of you know it's glitchy it doesn't work all the way so sometimes like you know it just gets stuck and you have to keep trying I had that problem so I think that's not like you know very reliable sometimes you have to just like you know keep doing it and then these are actually for the app so I don't use that and I'm not going to go over them and there's the mode button so you have the pan follow mode which is the default and then if you keep pressing it then lock mode and then here we have the follow mode and then here we have the POV and then here we have the I think it's a vortex mode so basically that's all the modes now there's a problem with the gimbal is that this like you know modes is very difficult to see if you're out in the field or if you're shooting outside because of the lights you kind of kind of like you know you have to hold it like this to see so this is a very bad designing of this part and then here this is not going to work if you don't have the app or if you're not kind of using the camera on the app which I don't want to use so I don't never use that now here this is something I like a lot about the skimble that it has a quarter inch hole and what it does that you can just like you know put it in here and you can attach an external mic for example like this to you know here so you can attach an external mic and you can just like you know push this here and that way you can have a mic attached you don't need to use any cold shoe or any other like you know extension bar so that's a very good feature of this gimbal which I like and except that it works very well I have done a few videos and it you know stabilizes very well and even it's it works with GoPro Hero 10 and I have another video on that so in terms of like you know functionality it seems to be working okay but the thing is that you know lots of the buttons they're useless if you're not using the camera app and the camera like you know recording via the camera app which I don't want because you know let's say if I'm doing live streaming I have my own application I don't want their app I don't want to use their app and also like you know I want to use my own camera native app which has stabilization so I don't like the fact that they're forcing you to like you know use their own app I try to use these buttons that's something I don't like and except that everything you know is just fine also another thing I would like to mention that this is not exactly like you know very lightweight and it has a little bit weight but you know that actually works towards its advantage because it feels very nice in your hand and it works very well so in terms of stabilization you know that actually kind of it's good that you know it has a little weight to it and except that I don't have any other complaints you know except that I don't like want to use the app and all these buttons are you know useless or meaningless for me because I'm not going to use their app but just one note that for the first time you're going to have to install the app to activate the gimbal otherwise the gimbal is not going to work this is something also I don't like they're forcing you to install the app and I have a feeling that they're just trying to get you know the numbers up on the google play or apple play store just to give the download number that you know so many people are downloading the apps but this is just like you know not a good business model that they're forcing you to install and download the app just to activate the gimbal but except that I'm happy with the product and this is not a paid or affiliated review all my reviews are non-affiliated unbiased and honest and I'm going to just you know attach this little bit sample clip how the gimbal works when it's like you know very cold or very windy and you you're going to see that you know it's performing well I just had one issue when the phone flipped because of gusty wind it had to be like 70 kilometer per hour but I worked with this gimbal when there was like 50 kilometer per hour and there's no problem so in general you know this is a very good gimbal except some of the you know shortcomings of what I just mentioned so that's all for today thank you for watching this video there'll be more videos coming up so I'll see you shortly thank you so today is a very cold and windy day and this is a perfect timing to do a real-life taste of the Zion smooth five gimbal so you can see how much cold and windy can withstand and how's the stabilization so wind is 50 kilometer per hour and it's minus 20 degrees Celsius cold and so far it seems to be working okay and there are some you know sometimes the gusty winds and sometimes not too much wind but still it's a very windy so I'm having two windmaps and still you might hear some noise because of the wind but let's see how is the gimbal smoothness and how much you know balance it can do so by the so when I'm looking on the screen it looks like it's okay it's doing a nice job I'm going to have to see you know when I go home how much really it stabilizes the video so you're gonna walk for about 10 more minutes in this cold and windy condition so we're in downtown Toronto the corner of spadina and front street so what happened there was a gust of wind and it just you know pushed the phone to rotate so it's just like in a kind of phone was imbalanced so I had to just restart the gimbal so it seems to be okay but sometimes if the wind is too gusty you know it's just the gimbal is not able to hold it