ZHIYUN Announces WEEBILL 3 Professional DSLR Gimbal

[btarunr]

ZHIYUN, the world's leading gimbal brand for filmmakers with cameras and smartphones, has launched the WEEBILL 3, it's portable, high performance gimbal for DSLR cameras. Incorporating a new SLING 2.0 design for improved ergonomics, built-in microphone, fill light and a powerful, inbuilt battery supporting all-day use. The WEEBILL 3 upgrades the filmmaking and photography experience by giving a dynamic, lightweight and easy-to-use professional device, giving users the chance to abandon the stress of cumbersome equipment in order to focus on pure artistic creation.

Built from lightweight, ultra-strong materials, the ZHIYUN WEEBILL 3 offers improved ergonomics with a new SLING 2.0 design. The SLING 2.0 system incorporates three important ergonomic upgrades: a restructured L-shape handle that's more stable when self-standing, a new wrist rest, and a repositioned, extendable sling grip that provide over 40% more support to your wrist by shifting the weight onto your arm. The extra support reduces fatigue, allowing for extended use in comfort. By moving the sling grip to the bottom of gimbal, it provides better stability and shake-prevention when shooting at low-angles.



The grip includes thumb buttons, mini control stick for movement, plus finger trigger and wheel that can be customized according to preferences of shooting modes and action parameters, such as camera paras, movement along axes, follow focus etc.

Convenient Built-in Microphone & Light
The WEEBILL 3 includes a built-in Hi-Fi microphone and 1000 lumen fill light for a fast and efficient setup-to-shoot experience. These convenient, high-performance add-in accessories save filmmakers from the fuss of additional wires and the weight of extra accessories.

The microphone provides forward focused cardioid recording, with noise-cancelling functionality, while the bright fill light offers color temperature adjustment to meet the requirements of each scene.

Ecosystem of Accessories
ZHIYUN offers a comprehensive ecosystem of TransMount accessories to extend the WEEBILL 3's functionality, dramatically increasing on location teamwork efficiency. Combining the WEEBILL 3 with TransMount Image Transmitter and MasterEye Visual Controller VC100 allows directors to monitor the shot via wireless image transmission, and apply parameter adjustment, such as focus and zoom, via remote control. Other accessories include ZHIYUN's Follow Focus/Zoom units and its ZY Play App.

Outstanding Battery Life & PD Fast Charging Support
Compared to the previous version, the WEEBILL 3 upgrades the large 7,800mAh internal battery, which now provides up to 21-hours use for all-day filming support. With support for PD fast charging (0-100% in 2 hours) and pass-through charging of attached cameras (5 V/1 A), the WEEBILL 3 offers outstanding endurance with minimal downtime.

Next-gen Quick Release system
ZHIYUN's latest quick release system includes a dual quick-release plate with embedded magnetic wrench. The camera requires balancing just once, then it can be repeatedly mounted and secured easily, fast and conveniently without needing to rebalance, saving time.

MSRP: The ZHIYUN WEEBILL 3 in now available at USD$449, or with a combo that includes a backpack, wrist rest, and extendable sling grip for USD$529.

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[Ferrum Master]

What an outdated thinking...

Who in their mind uses buys new DSLR these days? That leaves only Pentax as a choice. Not only they lack mirror ie are mirrorless, the Professional Nikon Z9 even ditched the shutter.

The PR should be more careful picking out words.

 

[zlobby]

What an outdated thinking...

Who in their mind uses buys new DSLR these days? That leaves only Pentax as a choice. Not only they lack mirror ie are mirrorless, the Professional Nikon Z9 even ditched the shutter.

The PR should be more careful picking out words.

Amateurs! I only work with films, and by extension with mirrors.

 

[Ferrum Master]

Amateurs! I only work with films, and by extension with mirrors.

Would like to see your film camera whatever mm you use mounted on this gimbal.

 

[zlobby]

Would like to see your film camera whatever mm you use mounted on this gimbal.

Yes, once again the sarcasm tag is solely missed.

 

[trsttte]

The design seems to me unsure if it wants to be a simple gimbal or go into steadicam territory. Looking at the images I'm not entirely sure how this is supposed to be used

Anyway, if they are advertising DSLR use it should be able to handle modern mirrorless gear without a problem since they're much ligher.

 

[Steevo]

You might be surprised at the number of DSLR bodies sold and used today for production, both video and photo since they allow for so many more options with existing lenses, cheap lenses than can be put in the way of harm, triggered snaps with meticulous focus and depth of field.

 

[Ferrum Master]

You might be surprised at the number of DSLR bodies sold and used today for production, both video and photo since they allow for so many more options with existing lenses, cheap lenses than can be put in the way of harm, triggered snaps with meticulous focus and depth of field.

Cinema creators screwing with ZHIYUN gimbals. Those setups you mention use custom focus systems with added gears on whatever lens you mod and are on slides not gimbals for the desired effect. The whole rig setup may be set behemoth dual handle gimbals for totally different weight categories.

If you count in video production wanabe YouTube content creators, then okay. This one is meant more for those, professional? I beg your pardon. Basically if you look at the datasheet, for the compatible models, the ones from DSLR era are only Canons and with greatly limited support, it becomes a stupid stick as none of the needed functions and buttons do work there, Nikons are totally gimped. It is a totally misleading PR article then. This thing is a for a modern mirrorless camera not DSLR.