@Stallion Yeah, it’s been a while since I saw anything on Amazon with 30% 1-star ratings. Good news is I am not able to afford this anyway, so no non-buyer’s remorse this time.
@Stallion I was thinking “well, how bad can it be?” Answer: pretty damn bad. Not even worth 30 bucks: I’d have something that worked for a few minutes then I’d have to figure out how I was going to get rid of it.
@xterraguy actually, I work under the auspices of a lesser-known (but still powerful!) akkadian diety called Enlil. I joined his team in the late 70’s after God’s payroll dept fucked me over for, like, the sixth fiscal quarter in a row. Shitty bonus miscalculations, “errors in our records”, etc etc, and finally when Mezpah reached out during an eastern-asiatic idol-worship meet ‘n’ greet, I was hella ready for a change. Haven’t looked back.
@UncleVinny
This is a steadycam or flycam. Meh’s deal is a gimbal. Steadycam relies on balance and gravity. Gimbals use sensors and motors to stabilize the device. Sure, you get a similar effect, but this is not a good alternative to a gimbal because of it’s lack of features.
@RiotDemon@UncleVinny It’s only good if you are a do it yourselfer and want to work on a project. Other than that, given how much cell phone capable motorized gimbles cost and how compact they are, it’s not really practical anymore.
In the days before affordable motorized gimbals and smartphones with decent video capabilities, the home made one would be functionally equivalent to commercial steadicams for a hobbiest with a camcorder.
Cross-stitch enthusiast Nina enters a craft fair with her most recent work, a thirty-two square foot faithful cross-stitch rendition of an Iosua Taeoalii painting of Hunter S. Thompson riding a rhinoceros through the desert.
At the craft fair, Nina is taken aside and brought into a world she never thought existed: Stitch Club. The first rule of Stitch Club: you don’t talk about Stitch Club. And the second rule of Stitch Club: thimbles are for pussies.
The second act of the film lays bare the secrets of the underground extreme cross-stitch scene. There are many dramatic montages and exciting angles showing things you never thought you’d see cross-stitched being cross-stitched. In a climactic scene ripped right from the drama of Sylvester Stallone’s classic Over the Top, there is a live championship stitch-off between Nina and a dark, mysterious over the road trucker who is just passing through town looking for a little stitching action.
After winning the championship, a slightly older looking Nina suddenly must work to cross-stitch a new Christmas angel for the Newburg town Christmas tree. If she doesn’t finish, Christmas will be ruined!
See it all in this movie that proves that if you want to get the Hallmehrk Channel to pay for your weird ass cross-stitch movie, your best bet is to hastily recut it into a Christmas movie instead. Don’t miss “A Cross-stitch in Time for Christmas!”
@djslack Is “Cross-stitch Hard” a Christmas movie?
The one where Bruce Willis foils thieves stealing vital cross-stitch patterns from the Tzumi Tower headquarters?
@mike808 Yippee-ki-yay, you know it is. But the Hallmehrk Channel will never air it. They don’t have Bruce Willis money. They don’t even have 30 year depreciation Bruce Willis money.
I played with this thing yesterday with an iPhone Xs Max. It took me 2 minutes to figure out how to work it. Overall, my experience was totally fine. It works fine. For $29, this thing is absolute no brainer.
@ChadP@RiotDemon you can see the live dashboards over on the wall displaying such things as “inventory damaged by warehouse goats”, “dunnage saved on ceramic shipments”, “weight of dumpster IRK supply volume” and “remaining minutes of Steve Harvey program”. It’s super neat!
Also, @ChadP, I’m probably buying this because of you. It’s just neat enough for the price even though I really don’t need it. Curses, I guess @tnhillbillygal should catch some of the blame.
Final image is horrifying! I was predicting a joke pic about how annoyed the kid looked earlier in the sequence, but now I doubt I’ll sleep comfortably.
So this has an app that lets you control the camera functions, and the app is installed on, what, the camera being used? Where those functions already are and accessible? I smell a marketing droid, insisting that “there needs to be an app, you gotta have an app to go with it!”
@stolicat
In this case, there does need to be an app. How can you use the shutter button on the gimbal without one. Just using Bluetooth may be the simpler answer, but then you don’t get extra features.
I have a DJI Osmo Mobile 2 (effectively the ‘name brand’ version of this concept) and really like it - it does a good job of smoothing out videos shot while moving, etc.
However: my main / favorite use for the DJI is shooting “motion lapses” - speed up timelapse video shot while the gimbal is very, very slowly panning the phone. This feature depends on the phone app (for setting the length of shot, waypoints where you want it to move the focus, etc.), and I’m wondering if this knockoff gimbal supports such a thing, and if so, if the app is any good. Now that I know how great motion-lapses are, I wouldn’t be willing to buy another gimbal that doesn’t support them with a good, reliable, intuitive app
So I got mine. I’d actually love it, except my iPhone XS Max is too heavy for it, so it’s got a permanent left tilt. I’ve adjusted it best I can, but it’s still just a bit too heavy. I’m really bumming out here.
@RiotDemon I did. Got some email about how they are super busy. Might give em till Tuesday, but very low on patience considering they also got notified by FedEx and did nothing. The wonderful attitude of “let’s wait until the customer complaints” is the reason why I now chargeback right away. Capitol One has great support btw.
Hmm, at first it’s like “WOW ONLY $29 hit the order button!”, then you look at the reviews and in true Meh fashion you hit the Meh button.
@Stallion so what are you betting? I’m betting It’ll be back on meh in three months.
/giphy leftover
@Stallion Yeah, it’s been a while since I saw anything on Amazon with 30% 1-star ratings. Good news is I am not able to afford this anyway, so no non-buyer’s remorse this time.
@Stallion @submariner try next week
@reclaimercube ok, I wager two Quip toothbrushes and the bet is on!
@Stallion I was thinking “well, how bad can it be?” Answer: pretty damn bad. Not even worth 30 bucks: I’d have something that worked for a few minutes then I’d have to figure out how I was going to get rid of it.
For any DIYers in the crowd, take a peek at the dang ol Innernet, cuz there are a bunch a different ways you can make your own (unpowered) steadicam.
Por ejemplo: https://www.wired.com/2009/07/homemade-steadicam-almost-as-good-as-real-thing/
@UncleVinny cool, thanks!
Direct link to the DIY so you don’t waste a free article on wired.com, or if you used all your free ones already:
http://www.yb2normal.com/DIYsteadicam.html
@UncleVinny you are doing god’s work. I hate it when people don’t link to the actual content.
@xterraguy actually, I work under the auspices of a lesser-known (but still powerful!) akkadian diety called Enlil. I joined his team in the late 70’s after God’s payroll dept fucked me over for, like, the sixth fiscal quarter in a row. Shitty bonus miscalculations, “errors in our records”, etc etc, and finally when Mezpah reached out during an eastern-asiatic idol-worship meet ‘n’ greet, I was hella ready for a change. Haven’t looked back.
@UncleVinny
This is a steadycam or flycam. Meh’s deal is a gimbal. Steadycam relies on balance and gravity. Gimbals use sensors and motors to stabilize the device. Sure, you get a similar effect, but this is not a good alternative to a gimbal because of it’s lack of features.
@RiotDemon @UncleVinny It’s only good if you are a do it yourselfer and want to work on a project. Other than that, given how much cell phone capable motorized gimbles cost and how compact they are, it’s not really practical anymore.
In the days before affordable motorized gimbals and smartphones with decent video capabilities, the home made one would be functionally equivalent to commercial steadicams for a hobbiest with a camcorder.
Since you asked:
Cross-stitch enthusiast Nina enters a craft fair with her most recent work, a thirty-two square foot faithful cross-stitch rendition of an Iosua Taeoalii painting of Hunter S. Thompson riding a rhinoceros through the desert.
At the craft fair, Nina is taken aside and brought into a world she never thought existed: Stitch Club. The first rule of Stitch Club: you don’t talk about Stitch Club. And the second rule of Stitch Club: thimbles are for pussies.
The second act of the film lays bare the secrets of the underground extreme cross-stitch scene. There are many dramatic montages and exciting angles showing things you never thought you’d see cross-stitched being cross-stitched. In a climactic scene ripped right from the drama of Sylvester Stallone’s classic Over the Top, there is a live championship stitch-off between Nina and a dark, mysterious over the road trucker who is just passing through town looking for a little stitching action.
After winning the championship, a slightly older looking Nina suddenly must work to cross-stitch a new Christmas angel for the Newburg town Christmas tree. If she doesn’t finish, Christmas will be ruined!
See it all in this movie that proves that if you want to get the Hallmehrk Channel to pay for your weird ass cross-stitch movie, your best bet is to hastily recut it into a Christmas movie instead. Don’t miss “A Cross-stitch in Time for Christmas!”
@djslack Is “Cross-stitch Hard” a Christmas movie?
The one where Bruce Willis foils thieves stealing vital cross-stitch patterns from the Tzumi Tower headquarters?
@djslack You don’t snitch on Stitch Club.
@mike808 Yippee-ki-yay, you know it is. But the Hallmehrk Channel will never air it. They don’t have Bruce Willis money. They don’t even have 30 year depreciation Bruce Willis money.
@djslack @SpocKirk
/image snitches get stitches gif
Reviews mostly bad. Meh.
After reading these reviews, I’m glad I spent $100+ on another brand. This is Meh indeed.
I played with this thing yesterday with an iPhone Xs Max. It took me 2 minutes to figure out how to work it. Overall, my experience was totally fine. It works fine. For $29, this thing is absolute no brainer.
@ChadP
@ChadP Shot with the SteadyGo.
@ChadP sneak peek inside the building!
@ChadP @RiotDemon you can see the live dashboards over on the wall displaying such things as “inventory damaged by warehouse goats”, “dunnage saved on ceramic shipments”, “
weight of dumpsterIRK supply volume” and “remaining minutes of Steve Harvey program”. It’s super neat!Also, @ChadP, I’m probably buying this because of you. It’s just neat enough for the price even though I really don’t need it. Curses, I guess @tnhillbillygal should catch some of the blame.
@ChadP @djslack @RiotDemon
/giphy what goat
@ChadP
Thanks for the demo.
/giphy sorry stiff boa
/image sorry stiff boa
Final image is horrifying! I was predicting a joke pic about how annoyed the kid looked earlier in the sequence, but now I doubt I’ll sleep comfortably.
Oof. The reviews. Bummer.
Isn’t that what you get when you put a penny in a machine?
“This isn’t a selfie-stick.” The marketing departments of both Tzumi and Meh disagree.
@hchavers Ha! Fair. Should probably say “This is not just a selfie-stick.”
Just a PSA. Apparently these things have a pretty standard Bluetooth profile so you can use MUCH BETTER software than the stock software. Try this:https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jcr.android.smoothcam
This isn’t a Razer Phone 2.
I’ve always wanted one of these things, but I’m poor now so it shall wait!
Is like a really zoomy TUMI?
… surely no brand-latching was intended.
This is really just a powered toothbrush for your phone. Beware.
I prefer to buy my gimbals here.
Specs
What’s in the Box?
1x Tzumi SteadyGo Gimbal
1x MicroUSB to USB charging cable
Price Comparison
$53.99 at Amazon
Warranty
90 day Mediocre
Estimated Delivery
Monday, July 13th - Thursday, July 16th
this item stinks!
@thenewlight - Let’s say the reviews are uneven and lean in the wrong direction.
The stinky direction
SteadyGo is a no-go.
/giphy somber-ungrateful-design
So this has an app that lets you control the camera functions, and the app is installed on, what, the camera being used? Where those functions already are and accessible? I smell a marketing droid, insisting that “there needs to be an app, you gotta have an app to go with it!”
@stolicat
In this case, there does need to be an app. How can you use the shutter button on the gimbal without one. Just using Bluetooth may be the simpler answer, but then you don’t get extra features.
@stolicat I think the app will only assist with time and motion lapse type stuff. I used it without the app and had a totally pleasant experience.
I have a DJI Osmo Mobile 2 (effectively the ‘name brand’ version of this concept) and really like it - it does a good job of smoothing out videos shot while moving, etc.
However: my main / favorite use for the DJI is shooting “motion lapses” - speed up timelapse video shot while the gimbal is very, very slowly panning the phone. This feature depends on the phone app (for setting the length of shot, waypoints where you want it to move the focus, etc.), and I’m wondering if this knockoff gimbal supports such a thing, and if so, if the app is any good. Now that I know how great motion-lapses are, I wouldn’t be willing to buy another gimbal that doesn’t support them with a good, reliable, intuitive app
Hope they work better than the Martian watches…
The last image was nearly enough to hit the buy button. Wonderfirkal family photo
10 days waiting for this sweet crap to be shipped. …
So I got mine. I’d actually love it, except my iPhone XS Max is too heavy for it, so it’s got a permanent left tilt. I’ve adjusted it best I can, but it’s still just a bit too heavy. I’m really bumming out here.
@TBoneZeOriginal could you add weight to the outside of the horizontal gimbal motor? Or trim your phone to size?
@djslack I tried trimming my phone, but the damn thing just stopped working when I cut into it.
Mine was destroyed by FedEx Smartpost and now I have to do chargeback. Thanks for choosing the crappiest carrier possible meh.
@skywiselh did you contact support?
@RiotDemon I did. Got some email about how they are super busy. Might give em till Tuesday, but very low on patience considering they also got notified by FedEx and did nothing. The wonderful attitude of “let’s wait until the customer complaints” is the reason why I now chargeback right away. Capitol One has great support btw.
@skywiselh they are super busy. They will make it right.