It's PERFECT! Hohem iSteady V3

I'm excited to show you this thing I just got and it's been a game changer for me as a creator.

So, like John said, why do we need a gimbal? My phone's got stabilization built-in and it does, but when you're doing a lot of motion, gimbal makes a tremendous amount of difference. Just for comparison, here's stabilized footage coming right out of a phone, and here's the same footage with the Gimbal. You could see why something like this could be such a huge asset.

Maybe more use case to me is being able to sort of go wherever I am and get smooth shots. I can do much better with this than I can with my hand, even when I'm holding things steady and level. There's still a bit of shake, it's totally eliminated. I love that it's thin, it's compact - easily fit in a bag, or maybe even a pocket if I got some like big cargo shorts.

But what I really like about the design here is first, it's kind of got a hidden selfie stick so if I just give a little yank right there, you get a bit of distance if you need it. But also, probably one of the coolest features I know I talked about this before was the removable control being able to sort of set this up with the feet that are built in and be able to control it. It's really awesome - I hadn't seen a gimbal where that came off that also had feet that can stabilize what it's doing, and I could set this up I mean so incredibly easy.

When I mentioned portability too, you compare the size of this to something like a Sony A7 - it's like a big difference. If you're out walking around, if you're filming for 5, 6, 7 hours at a time having something so thin and light makes a gigantic difference. What's surprising is the quality of the footage you can get from a phone - it can be masked to look really similar to the quality of footage you get from a studio camera, but there are still some things that phones cannot do and stabilization true stabilization is just not among them.

So being able to have that stabilization where I can rely on a phone has been so tremendous for trade shows for travel. I'm packing like half of the gear I used to pack before - all of that with light built-in, being able to use gestures - this has been an absolutely incredible piece of kit to have in the tool bag now it's not perfect for every scenario but for a lot of scenarios it really is good.

If you're starting a YouTube channel, you already have a channel you're creating content for for TikTok or Instagram, this makes a big difference. This makes a difference potentially between a video that gets a couple hundred views or a couple thousand views to 100,000 or more if you want your footage to look as good as possible but you don't want to have to spend thousands of dollars and you shouldn't have to - this is what you need.

It's got absolutely everything built-in it's like a Swiss army knife tool with pieces that pop out pull out gesture control and everything. I think home absolutely hit a home run here if you film videos of yourself, this is going to be perfect. You film videos of products, be perfect - even so far as pulling out the tripod feet from the bottom and get this thing to just stand still is awesome.

So not only does the AI tracking work like I think really seamlessly but the best part is probably it works independently of whatever camera app you're using so you can use AI tracking features in all apps, which I don't think can be said about most of the competition. It's also going to work beautifully in both portrait and landscape mode even a three-color fillite - you can essentially attach if you're in less than ideal conditions.

Also, home's also got a companion app, you can jump into and explore some tutorials and guides kind of get the most out of your I steady V3 so like like I said in the beginning here there's no arguing that smartphone cameras have gotten stupid good but don't forget the right accessories can make them I think so much better. And if you're looking for sort of the Swiss army knife of video tools, the iady V3 checks all those boxes - it offers a super easy way to stabilize your phone's camera system, it packs a ton of intelligent AI tracking features, it's got a built-in tripod selfie stick and all a a really compact form facture with all day battery life.