Zhiyun Smooth 4 turns your mobile phone into a professional filmmaking camera, helping you create stable and smooth footage with just your phone. The design of integrated control panel can reduce the need to touch the screen, and help users control both the stabilizer and mobile camera directly with hot-key buttons. Get one now to create your own Hollywood movies with just phones!
Design
Smooth 4 is designed with a slider on its control panel and a trigger button on its back, to easily recognize and switch between different gimbal modes. The unique flip-up design allows for an easy transition between standby mode and startup mode by folding and expanding the horizontal arm of the gimbal, making it very quick to deploy and pack away for travel. Portrait mode shooting is also supported. Billed as “Born for Mobile Filmmakers” the new design of integrated control panel can reduce the need to touch the screen, and help users control both the stabilizer and mobile camera directly with hot-key buttons. The dedicated scroll wheel on the side of the Smooth 4 allows users to zoom in or out as you want to take close-up shots as well as enabling a “dolly zoom” effect with the addition of adjusting focus used by legendary filmmakers such as Hitchcock and Spielberg.
The motor power of Smooth 4 has increased to a large extent, making it compatible with phones of all sizes. In the meantime, it can be used together with many accessories such as LED light and camera lens. Smooth 4 is versatile in different environments, releasing the potential of phone camera anywhere, anytime.
Smooth 4 can run for 12 hours in a row. The battery indicator tells you how much power is left. The stabilizer can charge your phone directly during shooting. You can shoot video all day long with no need to worry about the battery. It adopts the mainstream Type-C charging port so that users can use both ends of the cable for charging. The stabilizer can be charged by the portable power source and the phone can be charged by the stabilizer via USB port on tilt axis. The two-way charging can happen at the same Time, guaranteeing the longest operation time possible.
Features
The Zhiyun Smooth 4 has a PhoneGo mode, which releases the full potential of motors in a flash and adjusts to faster movements when running or shooting from a moving car/bike etc. The new Smooth 4 stabilizer supports all kinds of advanced shooting techniques such as Timelapse, moving time-lapse and Motion lapsed, and more. Object tracking is another big feature in the Smooth 4 gimbal, which can recognize human faces with much higher precision. You can frame the object you want to track on the screen, and the stabilizer can do the rest. This is all done through their dedicated app.
The more professional and dedicated handwheel is built in Smooth 4, bringing you the unprecedented experience of smooth operation. You can zoom in or out as you want to take close-up shots.By pressing the FN switch button, the handwheel is configured into a focus puller, helping you achieve high-precision focus changes in real time to create creative shots. Like a high-end sports car, Smooth 4 can enter PhoneGo mode and release the potential of motors in a flash. It can respond to every delicate movement without delay without the need to worry about losing any shots.What’s better is that amazing scene transition can be achieved in your footage without post-processing.
Smooth 4 makes deep optimization on Timelapse and supports all kinds of advanced shooting techniques. It can capture more details from a broader perspective easily overlooked in daily lives. With so many time-lapse with freer settings on shooting ranges (wide to tight), angles and focus, you can customize unique-style time-lapse footage, capturing all movements and objects including huge crowds, dancing flowers, moving silhouette or white cloud in the air. Creating a different time flow in your phone or capturing lives in a retrospective light, it’s all up to your imagination. Smooth 4 supports all kinds of advanced shooting techniques. It can realize features such as Timelapse, moving time-lapse and Motion lapse, recording lives and displaying the art of time flow.
Conclusion
The latest version of Zhiyun Techs gimbal series for smartphones comes up with some major innovations. Thus, the Smooth 4 have been added several controls or have been improved to let the user directly influence the recording without having to use the touchscreen of the smartphone. There is now a handy side control wheel to control focus or zoom is (the latter is known only digitally on mobile phones), a new slider as well as a larger, better grippy central control wheel (including central button) to select the camera settings and three additional buttons for direct Selection of functions. We can buy Zhiyun Smooth 4 from Geekbuying at $139.99