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Zhiyun has given a sneak peek of their upcoming Crane-M2. The M2 is a gimbal designed for lightweight cameras, smartphones, and action cameras.

It is a replacement for the companies Crane-M which was released two years ago and is now no longer available. The Crane M was designed specifically for smaller cameras such as the Sony a6300/a6500, Canon EOS-M, Nikon 1-series and action cameras like the GoPro and Sony FDR-X3000R, as well as smartphones. The minimum camera/lens weight that you could use on the Crane M was 125g (4.4oz) and the maximum was 650g (22.9oz).

We don’t have many details about the Crane-M2, and here is only images of it partly being shown. This is what we do know so far:

All-in-one solution for lightweight cameras, smartphones or action cameras.

Small and compact with a pin and latch to fix the three axes.

Quick On, Quick Off: a quick release plate which allows you to easily remove your camera from the stabilizer and re-install the camera back without having to calibrate and re-balance again.

Multiple 1⁄4 inch screw holes on the stabilizer that allows you to mount accessories.

Zhiyun has continued to improve their gimbal range over recent years and I would expect that the Crane-M2 will not only improve on the original Crane M, but it is also likely to share some of the same technology used in the companies Crane 3 Lab and Weebill Lab.

Price & Availability

There is currently no pricing or availability set for the Crane-M2. The Original Crane-M cost $239, but with prices of gimbals dropping over the last few years, I would expect the new version to be cheaper than the original.

It's not too bad there is a tiny bit of latency depending on how fussy you are you might not be able to pull focus that way but otherwise, you would just take a normal monitor up to it and another thing is you can actually see the back of the screen because they've got the motor on a 45 degree angle so maybe you don't even need a monitor at all so setting up a motion time-lapse is really easy once you get your camera connected up to it you clicked the little camera top left and then go to moving time-lapse then you're gonna set your first starting point so you are going to pan the over here you are gonna hit the plus button then you are gonna fan the camera where you  want it to end and then you hit the next point and then when you are done you'll hit next and then go into your time intervals and your duration and then hit start it'll position the camera back to the start.

Zhiyun Weebill LAB Gimbal Stabilizer comes with a few other different things like the servo motor you transmit a tripod the transmat holder for the cell phone as well as a belt that you can actually wear and mount your monopod off that belt and kind of do like jib type movements so this gimbal does have a wheel on the side so you can do follow focus or use it as a zoom function as well can't do them both at the same time but I found that the autofocus is so good on these cameras now that you could just use it as a zoom feature and then you could do cool things like the dolly zoom effect or even just zooming in and out whenever you want to get that's basically it this gimbal is are really well made, the design of it takes two batteries they last about six hours. It is perfect for you to take out for travel.

It's really cool as they've designed these quarter-twenty mount quick-release connectors that you can quickly take the tripod off the bottom and stick it to the top and you could probably use these for anything even like monitors and things like that if you want to pop them on and off a few things.

If you are interested in Zhiyun Weebill LAB, welcome to www.zhiyun-tech.com .

Metal and you know when you get kind of lighter when it comes to stabilization. It's not quite as stable versus something heavier but the nice thing is it does a really good job and it's made for smaller lighter cameras it's just really easy to set up. Except for the quick-release plate that's also on another quick-release plate so this plate just walks into the other plate and you can just take this off disconnect the USB cable but the motor and everything will stay on this little a smaller release plate. You can just click it in here when you're done.

If you want to click it back in you just lock it down boom so the layout on. Zhiyun Weebill LAB is a little bit different than some of the other gimbals right now, if you want to go into follow mode you have to push in the trigger on the front and then go into follow mode than on the side you can switch down to L which is lock mode which means the gimbal will just keep the camera in the same spot then you can click POV which puts it into a follow mode which follows the roll axis as well or you can put it into V which is kind of like the vortex mode which you can do those cool vortex shots or the inception mode.

There's a new firmware and you can triple-click the LV button and it'll actually lock out all the buttons in case you click them by accident,  you should just triple-click again and then you can resume using your buttons one of the new features that Zhiyun is putting into there gimbals is the wireless image transmission this one doesn't have HDMI but you can still do it through the USB with different cameras with the Sony it works and basically plug USB into the camera and then plug the USB into the back of the gimbal here and it will transmit your image to your phones through its own Wi-Fi connection and from there you can actually change your camera settings and the gimbal settings and everything just off your phone.

If you are interested in gimbal, welcome to www.zhiyun-tech.com .

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What's up guys I'm Jimmy from elegant screen works and today we're going to take a look at the DSLR stabilizers to crane 3 lab and the smaller we be lab from Eugene Tech enjoy since our team specialized in creating short cinematic action films on a low budget these gimbals are the perfect choice for us they include a tripod that also doubles as a handle works amazing to get bad sturdy double hand grip very ergonomic very easy to use and in context to our short film it allowed us to really get that steady high-speed cinematic footage without paying big bucks for large cranes dolly tracks and big crew to operate all that equipment for us there was a one-man job and it worked great without running gun style of film making both gimbals come equipped with an integrated camera control system this system allows you to hook up your phone or tablet to wirelessly use it as an external monitor or remote to control both the settings in the camera and the settings in the gimbals the camera control system in these gimbal's can also be used to operate the synchronous zoom and focus controller which is easily operated through the controls on the gimbal itself or through the connected phone now with a gimbal you really can't adjust the focus while shooting without messing up your shot the accessible focus control gets rid of that problem.

Permanently one thing that we also liked about these gimbals was the ability to connect monopods the extendable monopod allowed us to shoot those high angle jib shots while shooting our action movie we wanted to really push these gimbals to their absolute limits and what is a good action movie without that's right car chase roll the car chase footage . I know what you're thinking this was all done on a closed Road the cameraman was securely buckled up the whole time remember guys safety always comes first now that we got all that stuff out of the way I'm gonna go a little more into detail about what actually did here we got our photographer and gimbal operator

gust strapped to the back of her car and you use the crane 30-lap with the monopod tightly secured with the wrist strap, of course, remember guys but I said about savory first that also goes for your camera equipment you don't want to drop this bad boy in the pavement you lock the monopod between his legs and me as a director was able to see in the front seat using my phone as a monitor

to observe everything that was going on through the camera control system easily and look at how smooth this footage turned out even when hanging out of the side of they are amazing.  Even though our photographer is a strong man according to himself at least the crane three with our camera and lens setup is a heavy rig you will get tired after a long day of shooting, that's where the we built really shines with a lighter setup the waybill is both smaller and lighter than the crane 3 but size does not always have to matter here since stabilization with this rig comparability still is very good.