Feiyu SCORP Mini-2 All-in-1 Gimbal Stabilizer for Mirrorless/Action Cameras and Smartphones. 1.3" OLED Touchscreen, Integrated AI Tracking. Compatible with GoPro 12/11, Canon, Sony, iPhone, Samsung

First one worked for a week. After an issue that I could have worked through, the company asked for a quick video and sent me not only a new one, but the package option. If anything, the customer service gets 5 stars

Ths gimbal is simply great! Full disclosure: this is my first gimbal. Before this, I just had a homemade rig made of pipes with a ¼” screw coming through an end cap, and a 5lb weight on the bottom of a length of pipe. This SCORP mini-2 is just in another galaxy compared to that homemade rig. I’m still learning new ways to use this gimbal but I’ve got the basics down. It’s relatively easy to learn, and even easier to use. The hardest part is figuring out how to balance the 3 different angles if you’ve never used a gimbal before. Thankfully, there are quite a few videos available over on youtube that show you just about everything you’d need to know. The phone apps available are helpful for controlling the rig remotely when mounted on a tripod, as well as help with the AI of the gimbal when using a smartphone, like object tracking. They do seem to be lacking some functionality but it seems like they’re updating and adding features here and there. Overall, I can’t believe how awesome this thing is, especially for the price. The SCORP mini-2 is honestly a game changer for someone like me that has had no experience using a product like this. If you’re looking for those fluid, smooth, camera movements and you’ve never tried this product, trust me, it opens up so many possibilities and scenarios you just can’t implement without it. Obviously, I am in disbelief of just how great of a product this gimbal is. In the world of videography/cinematography and the like, the asking price is really “chump change” compared to other equipment required for the job. That being said, I’m just a poor boy (from a poor family), and this wouldn’t be a small purchase for me. But, knowing how ridiculously useful and helpful it actually is, I don’t think I’ll ever be able to shoot anything without it again. Even fixed shots benefit from shock and vibration dampening with this rig. Recommended for the small-time videographer, cinematographer, online content creators, and general hobbyists, as well as the big timers with a wider audience! Just pick it up, even if you’ve got a camera that won’t fit on the mini-2, I can just about guarantee there will be a time when you’ll need a smaller form factor rig. Excellent job Feiyu!

Nice gimbal just putting it together not easy

Let me start by sharing that I have no previous experience with gimbals. However, my girlfriend asked me if I could help her make some action videos of her cat. While she (my girlfriend) has a lot of experience with photography and a good camera, watching her try to take action shots of her cat made me think that what she needed was to take shots from the cat's perspective. Once the Felyu gimbal arrived, it was easy to set up. The instructions that come with the kit are good. The mounts for the various types of cameras allow for operation with a wide range of cameras. It took a little time before my girlfriend and I took test videos. To be sure, the Felyu made the learning experience fun and easy. Moreover, because of the range of mounts for different cameras, I also developed a lot of confidence in using the gimbal quickly. I was initially afraid of testing the gimbal with my girlfriend's cameras. So, I just used the camera on my phone until I gained some experience and confidence. Once I had the testing out of the way, it became clear that the Felyu was the perfect tool to help me get the low, cat-eye point-of-view video that I knew my girlfriend needed. Once she saw the initial cat videos, my girlfriend was also sold on the Felyu.

This is the first gimbal I've gotten, though I also already have the Feiyu Pocket 2s all-in-one pocket gimbal cam which I also like. The Scorp Mini-2 gimbal is well made from plastic and metal and comes with all the fittings you need to mount a smartphone, action-cam with GoPro style mount or a full-size camera up to 2.65 pounds. The fittings for larger cameras include a lens rest. This was my only real regret as I realized that one of my cameras that I wanted to use is a bit overweight, I forgot to include the weight of my lens. So I probably should have bought the larger Scorp 2 gimbal that can handle 5.5 pounds. You might want to weigh your heaviest camera before choosing which size Scorp gimbal to buy. Installing a camera and balancing it only takes a few minutes thanks to the excellent tutorial videos Feiyu has put on YouTube. You'll want to check these out as the printed documentation of the gimbal is ok, but a little weak in many areas. The only issue I ran into is if you are using a very light action cam with a 1/4-20 tripod thread. These mount closer to the base plate than cameras with a GoPro mount that makes them sit higher up. At first it will seem you can't move the camera far enough to balance it, but if you disengage the safety locks on the mounting plates you get an extra bit of travel that will allow you properly balance even a very light weight action cam. The gimbal includes an an app for controlling the gimbal and another one to use when your phone is mounted on the gimbal for shooting. I haven't tried the latter one out yet but it claims to give you better control of the phone's shooting features using the knob and other control buttons on the gimbal. A lot of other different types of action cams and cameras can be controlled from the gimbal over bluetooth or through a USB cable. Thankfully they include a handful of different USB adapters for just about any kind of camera. The gimbal has a built in battery with a claimed life of up to 10 hours, while I haven't run it dry yet to test it, the battery appears like it will last a long time. Just remember that you can't just swap in a new battery, so if you are expecting a long day of shooting you may want to bring along a power bank so you can recharge the gimbal between shots. And oh yes, the AI tracking feature. The gimbal has it's own camera and AI that will track you as you move around. So for example you can put the gimbal on a table and have it track you as you move around the room or in front of a white board. Very handy feature! The Gimbal has a 1/4-20 tripod thread on the bottom, so you can attach it to a tripod/dolly or even a jib, then use the AI tracking feature or the app to follow your subject as you move the dolly or jib to get more dramatic camera angles. The gimbal does a great job of removing jitter and unwanted motion from handheld video particularly for low light situations. Cameras with electronic stabilization work by moving the image around to reduce shake so they may look steady but in low light you will still see a lot of motion blur. With a gimbal the camera actually moves less so you get much higher quality shots in low light. The gimbal supports different shooting modes that allow you to hold it in different ways for normal and "close to the ground" shots. It also has a button that flips the camera around, so you can go from shooting forward to shooting your own face smoothly. The touch screen of the gimbal is large, high contrast and easy to read in all but direct sunlight where I needed to shade the screen a bit to read it. Control of the camera from the joystick and wheel is nice and smooth. Supposedly on my RX0II camera I can control the digital zoom from the wheel, but so far I haven't been able to get that working yet. I can only see two downsides right now, and they are fairly minor. One is that there is no software SDK for writing your own phone/PC apps to control the gimbal. Most people won't want to do this but I was hoping to write a custom app, so I miss having an SDK. The other issue will only get you if you want to use the gimbal for live video shooting. Right now there is no good way to rig up a video cable from your camera without it interfering with the operation of the gimbal. It would be nice if the gimbal had a way to pass video from the camera, through to an output on the gimbal handle. Again, not a big issue for most people, but it's on my wishlist. Overall I'd highly recommend the Scorp Mini-2 as long as your camera is 2.65 pounds or less, it's a great gimbal for the price. If your camera weighs more, just get the full size Scorp-2 which handles 5.5 pounds and actually doesn't cost that much more.