 Alright guys this is the brand new Scorpsi by FeiyuTech is their latest gimbal that's the follow-up to the Scorps. This one is the more affordable version coming in at just $269. I will explain why this is a lot more cheaper than the original Scorps and what functionalities you do get with this. I'm going to start off with unboxing this. You can see from the front of the box this has a 2,500 mAh battery which gives you roughly around 10 to 13 hours of usage time which is absolutely brilliant and this is also complemented with a brand new FeiyuTech Scorps app which I will also showcase. Inside the box you have yourself the quick start guide just to quickly show you some key information from the user guide. I will cover the buttons and the operations but just to give you an idea this is a very important page so if you guys would like to pause the video and take a look at this more information then please go ahead. So this is the Scorpsi, it's pretty much exactly the same design as the Scorpsi. You get yourself the gimbal, you have a tripod, you have here two quick release plates that I will be attaching with my Sony a7c. Of course this is the gimbal I will take this out and the great thing about this that you may have seen already on the Scorpsi website this has its own tripod legs that are in the shape of a scorpion. Without having the need to use a separate tripod this can stand on its own and finally there's a box of accessories just here. You have various different control cables, you have the usb-c charging cable for the gimbal, a couple of other things you have yourself the lens mount for those cameras that have large lenses and I will attach this to showcase that capability. The majority of the users will have a large lens then you have some screws as well to connect both of these release plates and an allen key. So now that's everything in the box let's go ahead and show you the design of the Scorpsi and how to set it up by balancing my camera onto the gimbal. One of the key differences between this Scorpsi and the previous Scorpsi model is that this doesn't have the LCD display, it has just simple plain buttons. Of course when you have the digital display you have more flexibility to dive into more detailed options and scenarios and different modes. You can even go into settings and look at the firmware versions that's not possible to do with this one but you can use the app to do almost exactly the same things but you'll have to connect the app via bluetooth to get all of that capability. So now let's dive in a little bit more about the buttons and the ports on this gimbal. So just from the front control panel you'll see there's a joystick, the shutter button, the mode button here for tilt, roll and pan. You can also lock all of these to have locked mode. You have the auto rotation button which you can then cycle left or right. The battery indicator there is on the top and then this is the light indicator for your connection. Just on the left hand side of this you have the rotation button for portrait mode so if you double tap this this can go from landscape to portrait. You have yourself the power button there on the right hand side. These A B buttons are to have automatic trajectory and I will showcase an example of this and this was great for capturing time lapse or panorama footage or just any perfect B roll footage from one start point to another. On the left hand side you have the first person view button so all of the axes the three axes will be unlocked and this will follow your movement of the gimbal. This button is to switch the mode for the magic wheel so if you press this once you'll hear a beep notification when you turn this this will allow the axes to be switched between either the tilt, roll or the pan and I'll showcase that an example as well. You have various different screws to lock in the different axes and various different ways to position the gimbal. These are connection ports that you have just underneath the release plate both at the front and the back. To connect my camera I will be connecting via USB-C into this camera port here and set it up on my Sony a7c then you have three positions for these silver lock buttons. This will lock the axes in place which is why you're seeing this in a folded design. To unlock them you have this one here one just under there and then one at the back under here so let me go ahead and unlock those three like so. I can start moving that this one I can start moving this way and then the final one now I can start moving this pretty much in all directions. At this stage I should be ready to now put on my camera and balance the gimbal before I do that I want to make sure I have the release plates connected properly to my camera. Now I generally use a tripod which has its own release plate already on there and technically if you have a very small lens and you don't need to use the lens holder then you can just use your own release plate which I think is great that attaches to this universal mount here so this is adjustable you can literally connect it into there and the switch between your tripod and the gimbal very easily but because of the size of my camera I'm going to be using the larger release plate which I will then connect the smaller release plate on top of it with the lens mount and then connect it to the gimbal so let me do that now. Now that I've positioned this on top of my camera this is where the allen key comes into play because to get through the gap you would need to use the allen key to tighten the bottom screw to the camera. The final step the lens mount so you position that on top you have one more screw that will go through the top here there we go and this will hold that in place. Now that I have everything connected here it is only at this point I can now go ahead and try to balance on my gimbal. Before I do that one other thing that I really like to mention which I think is a great feature is you have this red circle slider once you've positioned everything and you've got it balanced you can move this over the plate that it's on and use that as a marker for the next time to have your gimbal in the exact correct position to get it balanced very quickly and you have that in various different locations so you've got it on multiple axes as well so very easy to slide so I will go ahead and this is the position I will put it in in fact I will put on the tripod. Alright so the gimbal is now fully balanced it's currently off one thing I would recommend is watch the gimbal balancing tutorial by Feiyatek I'll have it linked down below it's not as simple as just balancing the camera facing forward just like this and it's going to work you need to balance it in three different positions separately for the pan roll and tilt axes so make sure that's done so you'll be able to use some of the other functionalities like the portrait mode and the auto rotation mode so now I'm going to go ahead and turn the camera on I've got it connected with my USB-C cable and then I'm going to turn the gimbal on there we go it's now centered you have the trigger button here which you can double tap to re-center it so if I use the joystick to move it left and right double tap it will center it if I want to turn the camera around into selfie mode then I can triple tap and it's very quick and easy to do that there we go now one of the key things that you know I really like about this is that this has an inbuilt you know handle or versatile arm in my previous Feiyatek gimbal reviews I have the AK2000S that has an attachable versatile arm that you screw into place and here it is now this one it can sometimes you know scratch the side of the gimbal you can remove it but this has been a massive help when trying to get the most stable footage for my videos so for the Scorpsi to have this inbuilt I think that is a great step and all of my shooting goes a long way when I use the versatile arms now everything is ready for me to show you some simple footage taken with this gimbal I've made sure to set the central gravity red dots in the different various axes so that I can remember this position next time I wanted to place my camera back onto this gimbal you can buy some accessories so you can get the follow focus kit that you can attach and use the magic wheel for that you can also get a unipod an additional tripod a long one and various other things that you can check out on the Feiyatek website now it's so quick and easy for me to just grip the handle from the back and from the bottom and then start shooting left and right in pan mode one thing I really like is if I wanted to use this for maybe my social media and I want to shoot in portrait it's quick and easy to that's all I have to do is double press the portrait button just on the left of the handle and it very quickly does that before I showcase let me just recenter this double press the portrait button you'll see that it automatically does and does this bring it back and then you have it now let me show you the portrait mode when you do switch to portrait mode it goes from just pan mode only to FPV mode so I'm going to double press the portrait button how quick and easy was that and there you go very stable portrait footage and then I can just switch it back put it back into pan mode and there you have it let's take a look at some examples of me showcasing normal footage taken with the gimbal in pan mode and also in portrait mode the next standout feature I wanted to highlight is the auto rotation mode so you see we have the a button just on the handle here then you have left and right once you start pressing the a button for auto rotation then you can press either left depending on how you want the spin of the gimbal to go or you can have it go right so let me show you an example of that now I'll place it down I'll press auto and then I'll press left and you'll see it starts spinning left you'll create some really good footage press it again to stop there we go and if you want it to go right press auto and then press the right button and look how stable and steady that footage is with the rotations so loads of different things that you can do with this press the rotation button again and it goes back to center so that's another great thing and here's some examples using the auto rotation with the magic wheel by default you can switch between pan tilt and roll so you can see how responsive and how smooth that is if you press the switch button press the switch button just next to the magic wheel you'll hear a beep and then now it goes on to the pan axis press again and it goes to the roll so whatever you like to do get the perfect type of footage however you want to tilt the camera you can do that with the magic wheel very well now here's some example footage of me recording using the magic wheel with my shooting okay so as I mentioned earlier this one doesn't have an LCD screen on the handle here and there's limited functionality compared to the scope model that you can do directly from the gimbal itself so I wanted to showcase the ability of using the feyotech scope app which is very quick and easy to connect so whilst the gimbal is on this is automatically picked up the gimbal next to it click on that to connect and you can see straight away how quickly it connected now i'm just going to run through some of the features of the app as well to show you the capabilities and how you can also use the app to control various different things that you can't do using the scope c on its own just on the left hand side here you have scenario this is where you can also do the auto rotation but one thing I really like about this is the time lapse and panorama modes you can also track video here as well and choose this to control the gimbal you also have button settings so you can adjust the trigger button or the ab trajectory button which I will showcase a demo of of doing various different things in various different modes so you can have ptf pan follow first person view flash follow and locked mode you can also adjust the knob settings so like I just showed you can use the button on the left hand side of the gimbal to make the switch between roll pan and tilt you can also do that using the app follow speed you can adjust the speed of the actual gimbal itself for when it does follow I've currently set it to slow because I think that just gives me the best footage and the most stable and smooth footage but you can adjust that however you like you can connect your camera if you have a compatible one directly to the app and then you can also change the camera settings from here but I haven't set that myself so I won't go into that you also have the motor power which you can adjust the speeds for each of the different axes you can do the horizontal calibration from here you can go to more settings and then you can silent the boot up noises you can disable selfie modes or you can do manual lock but if you click on the scope app there at the top this is where you can control the gimbal so right there in the middle you have the joystick so you can see how quick and responsive that is and how quickly it adjusts then you can also switch between the different options here so I've resented it this is now flash follow you can also switch to portrait mode using this you can go to selfie mode go back to center you can start recording and capturing your footage with the shutter button there between the pictures and videos and then you also have the different pan tilt and follow mode options and you can also have locked mode as well so various different things you can do with the app itself what I want to do is show you some examples of the scenarios which I think will look great so I'm going to give you an example of panorama that I've taken using the app a time lapse and also I'm going to showcase the ab trajectory which tracks the video movement so let me put the phone into the side I'm going to quickly show you here how to do this so you have two buttons a and b you hold down each button for about five seconds but you reposition the camera in between so if my camera I want it to start in this position I will hold down a and you'll hear a beep there we go now I can reposition it let's say I'll go this way and I'll go up a little bit and point there that I will set as the b position there we go now I just need to click on either a and b to go back in those rotations so if I press a once you can see it's slowly reversing back to that starting point from a this is perfect to get either b roll footage cinematic footage time lapse anything like that and I just think it's absolutely great to set that if you want to use that as a common way to showcase different subjects if I press b it will go back that same way in that very nice slow motion then you can also change the speed and adjustment of this using the app as well which I think you know the functionality of having this in a compact gimbal like this in a very affordable gimbal I think is brilliant now let's take a look at some examples of me just using the ab trajectory buttons to get these types of shots all right guys hopefully you found that review useful and you like the look of the scope see to come in at $269 compared to the scope like I mentioned you have to give up that functionality of the digital display on the handle itself to give you more of those options of how you can basically control and use some of the features of the gimbal and this also doesn't come with a carry case which the scope does but personally for me I think that's a great price for all of the features that you do get with this and sometimes simplicity for me is better than complexity but the scope is also a very great gimbal for those people that like to get the maximum advanced set of features and they do travel a lot with their gimbals so having that carry case is a great option as well but as always if you guys have any questions about this gimbal then make sure to drop a comment down below and I'll get back to you as soon as I can I'm super happy battery life is great I charge it with the USB port just underneath the magic wheel there and I pretty much am going to use this for all of my shoots because it's so easy to hold the ergonomic grip the features and all of that packed into just a simple and easy setup of a gimbal like this which looks great by the way is a big win for me so hopefully you found that useful make sure to subscribe I have new tech videos out every week with cool gadgets like this and I will catch you guys at the next one take care