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As an old user of Feiyu, I have been using Feiyu G6 Max for a simple reason. My video recording equipment has always been Sony A6400, and I occasionally use sports cameras and mobile phones. Feiyu G6 Max is a very compact micro-single stabilizer, but I have used it for more than a year, and I would like to share my experience. There is a saying in G6 Max that it is absolutely easy to use, but once the shooting time is long or the position is low, it is still very tiring to hold it. After recording a video, my wrist is a little unbearable.

Some people say, then you can change the stabilizer with the function of carrying a kettle. That's right, but the micro-single stabilizers with the function of carrying pots are basically above 2k. As a typical "waiting party", I have been waiting for Feiyu to produce a thousand yuan micro-single stabilizer with the function of carrying a kettle. How's it going? Today I finally understand. It is a new product of flying fish scorpion series: Scorp Mini (product model: flying fish)

The price of this new product is only 1599 yuan, and the price of this new product is 1299. I'm afraid it's the only one on the market with a pot function at a thousand yuan level. I didn't expect the stabilizer to roll in like this.

Accessories are also quite rich. In addition to the stabilizer body, it is also equipped with Type-C to Micro, to Multi (Sony Cable), to 2.5mm (Panasonic Cable), to Type-C, to TRS2.5, as well as GoPro adapter, two quick-release bases, hexagonal sleeve tools, camera lens bracket, mobile phone bracket, follow focus support tube, charging cable, etc.

In order to facilitate the leveling of daily single operation, a telescopic tripod can be installed first, which can be placed on a stable desktop or ground for pre-leveling.

During storage, each movable position is adjusted to the locking position. When used, of course, it is just the opposite. It is necessary to turn the locked switch in the opposite direction.

In order to facilitate quick disassembly and assembly, this design of Scorpion mini adopts the design of quick assembly plate and fixed plate slider, which can make your micro-sheet easier to adjust and install faster.

As for how to train, you can search for related tutorials. Since most people who watch this evaluation have some experience in using stabilizers, we won't go into details about the leveling process, so let's start with experience directly.

After startup, Feiyu Scorpion mini, like 2k+ Scorpion, is equipped with a 1.3-inch electronic screen, which can be operated by touch. This is my personal favorite place, because Feiyu's mobile phone stabilizer was still the previous micro-single stabilizer, and sometimes some detailed functions need to be used in conjunction with the mobile phone App, but with the touch screen, these functions can be directly operated on the stabilizer, eliminating the cumbersome operation of using the app. At the bottom of the screen are the joystick, camera/video button and M mode button.

In the main interface, you can choose full follow, heading lock, heading pitch lock, etc. For example, the above figure shows the complete following effect.

The above picture shows the locking effect of heading and pitching.

Of course, as the "mad dog mode" that professional video bloggers like very much, the flying fish scorpion mini is also supported. In this mode, the stabilizer will quickly follow the rotation direction of the hand.

Now it can be said that it is the peak period of short video. Many bloggers who shoot horizontal video are gradually changing to vertical video of Tik Tok small video. Scorpio mini can quickly change horizontal video to vertical video.

When using, just click "Portrait" to change the camera landscape mode to Portrait mode with one click.

And click the "selfie" function, you can flip 180 with one button, which is quite useful with the A6400 selfie screen.

In addition, Scorpio mini, such as time-lapse photography, automatic rotation, panoramic shooting and so on. , also provides a wealth of options. Next, I will show you the automatic rotation mode.

Automatic rotation, also called "Inception" mode in the industry, is simply to draw the camera 360 times by using a micro-single stabilizer (of course, it can also be set one or more times or manually controlled) to obtain some special visual effects.

Of course, the article mentioned the biggest highlight of this new product at the beginning-scorpion mini. The thousand yuan stabilizer is actually equipped with the function of a back pot, which is very useful for photographers who have been shooting for a long time.

If you don't know much about the kettle, you can look at the picture above. How to shoot without the handle of the kettle? You are likely to use your arms horizontally. According to the lever principle, the farther the center of gravity is from you, the greater the torque, which is bound to be more difficult. But at this time, if there is a kettle, it will be different.

Especially when the shooting time is long or the plane position is low, the existence of the kettle will definitely greatly reduce your strength, so you must be equipped with this function when you look at the high-end stabilizer.

In addition to selecting functions on the 1.3-inch touch screen, you can also change the full following mode of heading and pitching locking by clicking the FPV on the left, including the places marked with the "FJ" Feiyu logo, you can use the knob to operate pitching or click the middle button to switch between pitching and rolling.

There is also a shortcut button on the left and right sides of the kettle handle, which are F 1 and F2, where F 1 can quickly enter or exit portrait mode, and F2 clicks Lock/Unlock.

For general shooting, we can directly control the recording button or the camera button. With the Flying Fish Scorpion mini, we only need a wire to connect the camera, so we can operate the camera and record the video. If you have accessories related to focus, we can even realize electronic focus tracking. Of course, the main purpose of the stabilizer is of course to improve the anti-shake and stability of the shot picture. Next, let's take a look at its actual stabilizing effect.

Sister stood in the center of the square and walked around it. The performance of the flying fish scorpion mini can be said to be very stable, and the recorded picture has almost no jitter.

Even in the running state, the whole picture doesn't seem to float up and down obviously (note that this is a video directly converted into gif, and I swear I won't do any edge cropping or anti-shake cropping). Of course, this is also related to the person who uses the stabilizer. When running, try to keep up quickly with small steps, so that you can record a fairly stable running picture.

Generally speaking, this new Feiyu Scorpion mini has two biggest surprises for me:

1.000 yuan micro-single stabilizer is rarely equipped with kettle. This design greatly reduces our fatigue when we record for a long time or hold the handle horizontally at a low angle.

2. The Scorpion mini is equipped with a 1.3-inch touch screen, and most functions can be directly operated on the screen, completely eliminating the tedious steps such as Bluetooth connection of the mobile app, which greatly improves the work efficiency.

Of course, the best is cost performance. 1000 yuan can buy such a practical and easy-to-use micro-single stabilizer. It should be said that there is only Feiyu Scorpion mini at present.