New Upgraded Zhiyun Rider-M 3-Axis Wearable Handheld Gimbal Stabilizer

Whew, spending so much money on a chinese brand was a little nerve racking to me, but wow did this make an impression out of the box! What I love: *This thing literally works right out of the box. You put your action cam in (I have a Thieye t5e) push the power button and it stabilizes your camera instantly! * Has great modes. Default is Slighty moves left or right as you turn it, but stays vertically stable. Click the button then it has follow mode for all directions. Double click the button at it locks on target and will not move in any direction no matter how much you move it! (Actually very creepy when you first try it!). Lastly, triple click and the camera turns around and focuses on you for selfie mode. Very accurate every time. * Accessories: Firstly it comes with a great selfie stick. Its light weight and very well built, and super easy to attach to the gimbal. It does come with back up rechargeable batteries that do last a very long time. * Usability. It is very easy to learn, and requires very little time getting use to it. I am using this for a secondary camera angle for a show I am working on, and also use it snowboarding. It has been super easy to use in both aspects. What I don't like: *Well being a snowboarder it makes me nervous it is not weather resistant. I did tape over any open plug ins, and it has been fine through a few trips on the mountains. There's also not a lot of gimbals that are weather resistant so i'm not very upset over this. As long as it keeps ticking! *The battery door. hmmm. You have to turn the little screw for like a minute to have it fall out on the floor and search for a tiny little screw on the ground. It's a little annoying, and with is were more streamlined, but luckily I don't have to change batteries very often. * Does not fit a water resistant case for action cams. There are ways around it, like taking a hair band and securing it to the gimbal, or fork out the dough and buying a water proof gopro5. Either way, there are work arounds. Would I recommend it? The answer is a huge YES! I have a Thieye t5e, and it fits perfect in the Rider-M, and man it is fun to watch the super smooth footage you get from this thing! It's definitly an investment, but this thing feels like it is built to last, and really impresses everyone who sees it gets to use it. 5 stars for sure!

i got my Rider.-M. it's perfect quality. it works as expected. i setup it on my RC Car and my real car, run with it by using my GoPro staff. Now my video is very smooth and pleasant to watch. + got surprise. a stick was in bundling. got additional possibility to take video longer by using gimbal like a charger got smooth video. got a good price $129. all Chinese markets would like to get up to $169. - calibration is big puzzle especially the last action. gimbal doesn't get back camera at exact center. it's not so critical

this thing is AWESOME, i didnt give it 5 stars though because i finally went skiing with it, and the pole froze open.

Purchased a new unit after returning one that was DOA out of the box sold by Duoda Digital. This new one (sold by FotoPal) worked out of the box. Hopefully, it will continue to function as designed. When purchasing; consider this, the unit sold by Duoda Digital came with an additional selfie stick (all be it a cheap one), a nice surprise.

I couldn't get the app to work for it, but the gimble works really well. I mounted it on the handlebars of my bike, and the only shakes I get are from bumps. I think I could reduce those if I wore it on a harness or on a helmet.