{"id":39104,"date":"2018-06-27T16:32:25","date_gmt":"2018-06-27T16:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/?p=39104"},"modified":"2018-06-28T12:27:30","modified_gmt":"2018-06-28T12:27:30","slug":"djironin-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/djironin-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Review of the DJI Ronin-S"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A couple of the smaller ones have stood out for me though, the Came TV Prophet and the Zhiyun Crane 2, both of which I have used on professional shoots. It always seemed odd that DJI hadn’t released their own single arm ones, just the Ronin, Ronin M, MX and Ronin 2. All of them big and quite heavy. So when the Ronin-S was announced early this year it felt a long time coming. Unusually for them (apart from the Ronin 2) then announced it a long time before it was ready, perhaps to make potential buyers wait to buy theirs and not the competition…I don’t know though.<\/p>\n

I first held the Ronin-S at one of the trade shows this year. I think it was the BSC show in February. My initial impression was “wow that’s heavy” and it is. At 1.85kg for the unit it is the heaviest of the single armed gimbals I have come across by a long way. The Crane 2 was the heaviest until that point coming in around 1.25kg.<\/p>\n

EDIT: I have just double checked these figures by weighing them myself and they are off. Neither manufactures take into account essentials. I have done a breakdown of them here:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ronin-S total weight 2.295kg (5.06 lbs) broken down into the following:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Gimbal: 1.566 Kg<\/strong>
\nBattery grip: 406 grams <\/strong>
\nQuick release plate: 74 grams<\/strong>
\nTripod: 249 grams<\/strong><\/p>\n

Crane 2 total weight: 1.636 Kg (3.61 lbs)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Gimbal and 3 batteries in grip: 1.394 Kg<\/strong>
\nQuick release plate: 88 grams<\/strong>
\nTripod: 154 grams<\/strong><\/p>\n

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