Cem_SG
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Cem_SG Posted at 10-9 22:11
For days I've been playing now with my Zoom H1, iPhone X and OM3. I have purchased a L-"bracket" with 2 cold shoe mounts and it's not nice, however I try to route the cables they cause forces which either moves the gimbal arm towards me or away. Will try to post picture later with the least troublesone setup. I asked one of my colleagues to borrow his one and this morning I was reading on the bus a review on OM3 on Dpreview and the friend brings a Snoppa Atom. First I was disappointed as the design is pretty much the same in terms of arm, locking etc. BUT there is mic port to the left of the grip and another where the clamp for the phone is. There are many reports that the solution degrades the sound quality (theory of cables passing by 3 motors...) but after fiddling a bit around I have to say the sound via the Zoom H1 is very good.. and no balancing issues, super clean just need two TRRS cables.
oh my DJI why haven't thy made this genius stroke with the mic ports ...
As I stated above the main issue is dealing with cables especially if also want to charge the phone while using OM3. It would have been good to have kind of clips along the arm where you could snap the cables in but even then you will face issues unless used mostly with a "fixed" view.
oops looks like the cable is too tight
https://imgur.com/udcAt2A
Main issue with this setup is you can't go much low, since with OM3 you have hold the gimbal more to the side the cables will start blocking the arm to move
https://imgur.com/EVxblfW
Some tweeks required so the oh so wonderful 3.5mm adapter doesn't permanently rub on the roatating arm of the Gimbal
Once you decide to use a power cable to juice up your phone things getting worse; so a lightning T-adapter is need to split mic and power. As good as the springy cable for power looks it's too stiff for the gimbal.
https://imgur.com/3esWHiS
https://imgur.com/aZ4tzjV
The original apple lightning cable works better but as one can see way too long, a shorter braided one I have is again too stiff.
https://imgur.com/bRhUXW1
Quick look at the snoppa atom
https://imgur.com/LPtbOCH
On the left side is a mic port, so moved the bracket to left and it works fine, not perfect again with the cable but it's not causing problems
https://imgur.com/dfcgUlN
https://imgur.com/02rHgXa
And on top just behind the camera another audio port, again trying to take low ground shots can cause troubles as the cable will start getting in conflict with the rotating joint but not as bad as with OM3.
https://imgur.com/kb0fbuA
I forgot to take a shot with the T-adapter and phone power cable but you will have the same challenges as with om3.
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