Cinema pro and gimbals.

[bumbling]

after playing with the app, it's pretty decent, but i'd like it to be updated to work with gimbals, as also using filmic pro, which is really powerful, but is a little overwhelming, so cinema pro isn't as powerful, but the 21:9 is decent, without resizing, and generally i'd like to use the wheels on my smooth 4 to follow focus and adjust the ISO and shutter speed on the fly, i know it'd take both sony, and the gimbal manufacturer to work together for it to work, but it'd just take it to another level, also please give 21:9 and 24fps in the default camera app.

[Gilgameshuk]

Speaking of which S, saw a Smooth 4 going second hand on fleabay, sometimes fleabayers can be stupid as it went for £79 plus postage.

Can get them new for that. 

[Jon.Hidden-Coley]

Cool, I live in Haworth.

[Jon.Hidden-Coley]

Ha ha! A win for the seller at least!

[Lord_viridis]

In regards of using the cinema pro more, I've found that the shutter speed in daylight is higher than the 180 rule of 2x frame rate, this is obviously fixed with ND filters on usual cameras and video recorders but with the phones, we have to increase shutter speed to counter blown highlights.

Myself (and I wouldn't recommend doing so) I've trimmed a 52mm screw thread to 2mm wide and bonded it to the back of my case. Now I can add 52mm filters whilst using my gimbal.

[Benchcaz]

Nice work!  That's given me an idea. I have a friend who can do 3d printing. A case with a 52mm hole would be a nice accessory. 

[bumbling]

On eBay there was someone selling customer returns, and I picked mine up for £50, which was a right bargain.

[Gilgameshuk]

Yeah I'll wait until next month. 

[Jon.Hidden-Coley]

Great minds think alike! I've done something very similar. I purchased from Amazon a cheap phone case and a 55mm-52mm step down ring. I then CNC cut a plastic ring which I stuck to the case with VHB tape. The hole in the plastic ring was cut so that the 55mm thread fit tighltly and would not come loose. I can now easily attach and remove my 52mm variable ND filter.

[Lord_viridis]

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@bumbling wrote:

On eBay there was someone selling customer returns, and I picked mine up for £50, which was a right bargain.

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Not gonna lie, that's where I got mine from, and probably the same seller.

From what I can see, mines a factory refurbished one, and yeah, nothing wrong with it at all.

[DougieDoge]

Oh wow, that's a really cool solution! What Zhiyun model are you using and do you use the native camera, Cinema Pro or ZY Play by Zhiyun?

I've been in contact with Zhiyun and they said that the Xperia 1 wont work with any of their gimbals so I'm wondering how you make it work  If the Zhiyun won't work with my Xperia 1 I'm not sure what other gimbal to try...