I’m totally amazed and stunned by the Ronin-M 3-Axis Handheld Gimbal Stabilizer! This is the most sophisticated, simplistic, graceful, beautiful machined tool I’ve ever used! You’re probably asking yourself, “what the hell is it?” You could think of it as a steadycam and that would be a simplistic way of thinking of it. What you’re seeing in the animated GIF above is the Ronin in its stand and then in the hand (D750 / 18-35AFS not included). The Ronin provides amazing hand held control over all your movements. Just take a look …
You might be looking at this and thinking it’s over your head. Nothing could be further from the truth. Set up, calibration and application is really bloody simple. That’s how I first fell in love with it. It’s use, it pretty simple too but to be honest, thinking in those dimensions and being a visual storyteller was a challenge for me personally. But that has nothing to do with operation this beautiful machine. Now I had planned a simple yet eloquent video shot with the Ronin to demonstrate its ability. First attempt was foiled by wildfire smoke, next by drought (creek was pretty dry) and then weather. Thanks goodness DJI (ya, the same folks who make the drones) created this great video with the Ronin.
Its applications are limited only by your storytelling and imagination. You’ve probably never heard of such a thing, never even thought about the problems it might solve. But you owe it to yourself to check it out at the very least!