New Alpha Beam Gimbal from Korea : 2.6 Kg Payload

i couldn't find the price for the US.

looks nice.

it looks like the camera is set way off to the left side. i like this but don't get how that is working. offset would be better to see the camera's LCD. I'm wondering if this would comfortably handle a 1DXmkII with the 24-105 or16-35mm L?

david
 
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I followed the link you provided. Click on the "Info" tab and scroll to the bottom of the specs; you'll find a "Buy" button; roughly $1,470 USD for the unit.
 
david_p said:
it looks like the camera is set way off to the left side. i like this but don't get how that is working. offset would be better to see the camera's LCD.
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There appear to be two controls for centering your camera horizontally: the slider in front of the back motor that uses a hex wrench to adjust, and the slider under the camera that looks like it has a finger-toggle that you flip to lock or un-lock. So I imagine that you would adjust the back slider if you are making an extreme horizontal shift, and adjust the slider under the camera when you need to make a more moderate horizontal change.
 
david_p said:
it looks like the camera is set way off to the left side. i like this but don't get how that is working. offset would be better to see the camera's LCD.
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The offset was likely the result of balancing the roll axis with such a lightweight camera (Sony a6300?), & a heavier package would mount closer to the pitch (tilt) motor.

EDIT: This is a slick looking little gimbal, but my aversion to learning SimpleBGC will keep it beyond my reach.
 
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SimpleBGC is one of the main reasons I bought an Osmo over any of the mirrorless class gimbals. I read the reviews and start hearing how you have to download third party software, mess with it, calibrate and tweak it to get the gimbal to work correctly and I am out. I shoot for a living, I am not a computer programmer, advanced gearhead who likes messing with my video gear, I just want it to work. Reliably, simply, just turn it on and it works. I don't do PCs, Mac implementation sounds sketchy to non-existent. Let me know as soon as a mirrorless/DSLR gimbal is shipping that "just works" out of the box. No micro jitters, no randomly spinning the camera around, no freak outs when flipping to briefcase mode, etc. Adjustments for different weight loads should take a couple of seconds to adjust not hours of trial and error. Until something this simple, intuitive and easy is shipping, guess I am staying with my Osmo. It's a specialist tool only useful for certain things but using it is generally quick and easy, which is what my clients expect, not excuses about why my gimbal isn't working correctly as the clock is ticking.
 
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