FeiyuTech Vimble 3 review

With the Vimble 3 app-enhanced 3-axis gimbal, you can capture steadicam style moves with your smartphone

FeiyuTech Vimble 3
(Image: © George Cairns)

Digital Camera World Verdict

This compact, lightweight and durable gimbal will have you panning, tilting and tracking your subjects like a Hollywood camera operator. Using your smartphone’s front-facing camera and the free Feiyu ON app, you can make the gimbal track your movement as you walk and talk and trigger the recording with a hand gesture. Some of the app’s panning timelapse features didn’t perform as well as we hoped but all in all this is an effective budget smartphone gimbal.

Pros

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    Gliding movement (even shooting wide-angle)

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    App controlled auto tracking

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    Trigger recording via gestures

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    Telescopic extension rod

Cons

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    Hit and miss timelapse performance

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    No mode display

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The FeiyuTech Vimble 3 is a new arrival in the increasingly crowded smartphone gimbal market. Unlike the Zhiyun Crane M2S gimbal, the Vimble 3 doesn’t attempt to appeal to mirrorless and DSLR owners – it is aimed purely at the smartphone user. 

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George Cairns

George has been freelancing as a photo fixing and creative tutorial writer since 2002, working for award winning titles such as Digital Camera, PhotoPlus, N-Photo and Practical Photoshop. He's expert in communicating the ins and outs of Photoshop and Lightroom, as well as producing video production tutorials on Final Cut Pro and iMovie for magazines such as iCreate and Mac Format. He also produces regular and exclusive Photoshop CC tutorials for his YouTube channel.