Well the price has finally been released for the new DJI Phantom gimbal @ $699.00 and comes complete as shown below. The nice features are the ability to charge the GoPro while flying and the ability to output video to your video Tx all contained inside the arms of the gimbal. Full details HERE
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Woah, that's one intense test. Very impressive.
Talking about money.
Well for 270€ you can use a prebuild alexmos gimbal achieving this:
http://vimeo.com/68798773
I am not a particular fan of the shop, but here are the gimbal components in detail used in that video:
http://flyduino.net/Flyduino-2-Axis-Full-CF-Brushless-Gimbal-V20-Pr...
http://flyduino.net/Alex-Mos-Brushless-Gimbal-BLG
And that shop is not cheap.
So what you pay with Dji is the name.
Cheers Rob
Wow, talk about haters! I agree their gimbal is priced a bit high, I would like to have seen it in the $499 range but to say it’s only worth $75.00 is a little ridiculous. This isn’t some cheap Chinese copy, it's a well designed unit with Swiss motors, anodized aluminum arms, fully integrated electronics including video output and gimbal controller that works out of the box.
There are a lot of other alternative but most require a lot of tinkering. A lot of people have bashed the Phantom as well but they sell over 8000 a month and there is a long list waiting with deposits made on the new gimbal, even at the released price point.
Phil, where did you find anything about versions or prices for the Relentless "Defy"? Their Web site does not contain one single bit of substantive information about this product, just a guy blathering endlessly about how wonderful it is going to be.
These guys have a GoPro version coming out soon, and its a 3axis and priced better than this unit.
www.defygimbal.com
We need new models for Sony NEX series, for remote sensing applications that can pay the bills.
You can't ignore the price tag as realistically, the end product i.e. the video you get from the hero3 is no better than open source or other alternatives for brushless gimbals at a fraction of the price. People can say 'oh it's the research cost', and it looks nice etc, but research on youtube and google is free. The price tag will only cost you time measured in minutes and a few moments to order the boards and gimbal motors (and gosh, a frame too).
In addition threads on rcgroups where you can order premade 3d printed solutions from online sources are inexpensive in comparison too.
Martinez and Alexmos have done well.
I guess if the price isn't a problem then the fact that the coating of the non-replaceable lens on the GoPro will soon be shredded if the multicopter is flown off of or onto anything but a very clean surface won't matter either. It's only another $300 every once in a while, what the heck. (I have three GoPros and tempting though it is to fly them naked, they fly in their housings. There is a strap-on lens protector on the market but aside from being kludgey it still leaves the rest of the camera exposed, and these cameras when bare are about as weathertight as a sieve. I wish someone would produce a minimal full housing, smaller and more mount-friendly than the stock one)
IMHO any gimbal system that only mounts a GoPro bare is worth exactly $300 less than nothing.
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