 Welcome to the Crimson Engine. My name is Rubidium. Today we are looking at two of the hottest selling camera gimbals on the market right now. This is the Jiyun Crane and this is the Ronin S. So you can probably tell by looking straight away the Ronin S is a much larger unit. It has a heavier capacity, it has bigger motors, has a bigger battery and it can take bigger cameras whereas the Crane is much smaller, packs down more compactly. It can't carry nearly as much weight as the Ronin S can but it can still get you out of a lot of scrapes and is a useful little tool. Mechanically these are both single-handed three-axis gimbal stabilizers so each of them has three motors, three brushless gimbals, one for pan, one for tilt and one for roll. Every time you move your hand in one direction the sensor in the motor detects that and then directs the motor to move compensating your movement. So all the small little bumps and imperfections are negated in your camera work. You end up with these beautiful smooth camera movements. These have been coming out for a couple of years now. I've used them but not with that huge amount of success. I thought that Tilta Gravity Gimbal was interesting but it was too small to hold C200 which is what I do a lot of my professional work with. The Crane is definitely still too small to hold the C200 but the Ronin S is made almost expressly for that purpose. When I get back to my studio and back to my camera I'll be able to put bigger lenses on this guy and take it for a proper test drive but for now I just have it again we're in northern Vermont by the lake. I'm going to get some more shots of all the beautiful wilderness and wildlife around here but I only have the Canon M50 and also a 5D Mark II shooting Magic Lantern that I can get some shots of and show you guys what results can be produced with these machines. I got the Crane first. A friend of mine had bought it, was going away and he lent it to me to go to take on holiday. I liked it. There's nothing wrong with it. It's a pretty typical camera piece manufacturer, nothing special. The buttons feel okay without being great. It's light, it's portable, it comes in a small little hard case that you could put in your carry-on luggage. It's just the kind of thing you want to put your XC10, XC15, M50 on and get really beautiful smooth motion. I mean it's really just a selfie stick on steroids, a Ronin S. It's a whole other level of build quality. The buttons feel super professional. They're what you would get on a, you know, the build quality feels similar to what you get on a high-end Canon Cinema Camera or Arri Alexa. It has, you know, more buttons, it's more intelligently laid out. The software works a lot better. It has this added little focus dial on the side of the handle that lets you, it's not compatible with every camera right now, I think only the GH5 and some other ones, but it lets you essentially, potentially pull focus with your camera while you're doing gimbal moves. Another thing I really liked about the Ronin S is that it comes with this awesome little collapsible tripod on the bottom or stand, I guess. It's not only great to be able to place it on a table where you're bouncing your camera. You can also, and I'm pressing for room here, but brace it against your chest while you're operating it and take some weight out of your hands, which I found much more amenable to use than the Tilt of Gravity or the Crane. The Crane's lighter, but that doesn't mean when you put a heavier camera on it, your deltoids don't ache and it becomes really tough to hold. All the crane movement is with your thumb, whereas a lot of the important movements on the Ronin S have this activated by this little trigger at the back. It means that you have much more ability to keep your shot smoother, keep a firm grip on the battery as you're moving around with the camera. And what a lot of people don't appreciate with these one-handed gimbals, and two-handed gimbals for that matter like the Ronin or the Movi, is that they don't remove the bouncing movement of walking. So if you want to do a steady cam like shot, you need to walk in this crazy duck way where you squat down and then walk without going up and down. It takes some getting used to, but once you master it, it gives you really smooth footage. The advantage of this over a steady cam, which is tens of thousands of dollars, or a double-handed gimbal is that you can get through smaller spaces. I think the absolute killer app would be to have this on, you know, an easy rig from above or a steady cam from below that would take out that bounce and let you move a lot freer, and also leave a second hand to operate the camera, might be at pull focus or exposure or whatever else you want to do, which you can't do with a normal two-handed gimbal. Both of these work interactively with an app. The DJI one is a lot better made than the DJI one, but they still work both on Bluetooth. You can adjust the force feedback of the motors. You can adjust the speed of the pan and tilt. Ronin is a lot more intuitive. It took me a little bit, but it took me quite a few internet searches to work out how the crane works, but once I got it up and running, it's not that hard. Both work really great in inverted mode where you can get, you know, really nice drifting shots along just above the ground. Here's the Ronin S-Case. If you're traveling with this, this is going to be, have to be checked into your luggage. It's not going to fit in your overnight bag, whereas the crane you can pack away without any problem. Balancing both of these was pretty simple with a small little camera like the M50 piece of cake took me two or three minutes. With a bigger camera, with a bigger lens, they both have lens attachments, which should be trickier to do, especially when you lose balance as you zoom in and out on bigger lenses. But once I'm back in California, I will do a full review of the Ronin S with the C200 and Cinema Zoom lenses and everyone can see how it performs under professional circumstances. So that's my wrap up of the Ronin S versus the DJI crane. Hopefully that was helpful to someone leave your questions in the comments. Like I said, more videos coming on both of these in a couple of weeks, but I just thought I'd let you know my first impressions and if anyone's looking to buy these, my final word would be the crane's a lot more transportable, works perfectly with smaller cameras, whereas the Ronin S, a lot more intuitive, more heavy duty, is going to have room to expand. So you can put a much larger cinema style camera on this guy as well as working it with smaller cameras, whereas the the crane is pretty much a prosuma camera gimbal. Thanks pretty much for watching guys. I will see you next time.