Hello tech lovers, you're probably wondering why I've started with a bouncing man
well I just thought it was a really good demonstration of my new gadget: the
Obsbot Tail. So let's start right at the beginning, this was something I backed
on IndieGoGo and it's now available in stores, I thought I'd do a bit of an unboxing video.
So I've been waiting for this for a while, very excited to finally
get it, looking forward to really seeing what this thing can do because there's a
Youtuber who has to move cameras around and get them into position it'd be nice
to have a little bit of AI help so just gonna take a quick look at the box and
the packaging. You can see nice black box, red trim at the side. I've opted for
the black version.
"Feel the magic of AI camera!" that's what it says on the front and then we have, this is nice, liking
this, travel case! Document wise then QuickStart guide and this will require
an app so I'll grab us in a minute.
the Obsbot is a really nice-looking bit of kit you've got a main body
section and a rotatable head that has a status light on it. Around the back
you'll find the power, in that's a USB type-c connection,
there's the power button and there's also the SD card slot for your memory
cards. You can stand this up on its own, it's got a little grippy section on the
bottom, it also has a standard tripod mount so if you're not just plonking
this down you want to tripod mount it outdoors you can do so very quickly and
easily that just rotates on. Powering on you hold down the button, these little
lights that are flashing are the battery indicator lights, when it powers on
you'll note on because you'll see the camera flip around towards you. It also
has a status lights at the top so it's very easy to see what's going on because
when the cameras always facing you this status lights will always be in your
field of view at the moment you can see it's green but that has different colors
as well I'll change colors indicating different things. The main camera is
completely rotatable 360 degrees it's got the zoom lens on, you can see the
specs there: it's 4 to 14 mm F2.4 to 5 and it does a really good
job this was the first time I had it tracking me and so you can see I'm
moving around I'm filming with my mobile, we'll come back to the mobile application
in a bit, but you don't actually need to be holding a mobile to use this.
I figured let's see what this can do out in a larger environment and maybe with
someone who is a little bit quicker and nimble of a foot so I'm just heading to my boot
camp class early to see if I can rope my instructor in to
do some crazy shapes and see if the camera can keep up with him.
I've got this set up it's tracking me and I've got a lapel mic on because
obviously if I want to move away I still want you to be able to hear my audio and
that means I can move around move back I've got a mobile here so I can keep
tracking to make sure that it is still following me
and it's not having a promise see the Osmo of course fixed position can't see
me it's got a pass in front of it whereas this one is tracking me right
the way around, in fact if I keep going around you should see the Osmo...there's
the Osmo see hello Osmo!
So the good thing about this is that it doesn't
matter where I am as long as it's locked on me I can get a good shot.
So here's the setup we've gone for, you can see Max warming up the Obsbot is there just in
fact it's a little bit closer but not too much closer but you can see the
difference in the camera, it tracks Max really well I'm not sure I've got the
white balance quite right it looks a little bit washed out but I'm not
controlling the camera at this point this is tracking Max, it's zooming in a
bit closer than I was with the action camera and you can see wherever he's
moving it's rocking backwards and forwards as he moves side to side.
Now you can increase and decrease the speed of movement, and you can see just there it
zoomed in on him that wasn't something I'd asked it to do it just recognized it
needed to get to a little bit closer. We were pretty impressed with this so far
and we thought we'd try out distance as well so I asked max in a second to go
for a bit of a jog see how far it would track him out, now you haven't really got
a sense of how far this is, well this is quite a large field you can see it
continues to track him all the way and it tracks him all the way back. So here's
my point of view with a little action camera and he's he he's actually quite
far away from the Obsbot but the zoom function is working really well it's
doing a great job of tracking his movements I have to manually zoom in by
running forwards. Second part of this test we thought we'd
test this tracking Max in a crowd it does quite well to begin with because
he's still clearly in view so he's still tracking him even with all the other
class members on the screen where it gets a little bit confused is if he goes
behind people, remember this is visually tracking him he's not carrying anything
to make it track him, and trust me this exercise is much harder than it looks!
So if you're watch in a second he'll go behind me I'm watching the mobile to see
what happens and when I pop up there you go it's locked on to me instead.
I'm having difficulty tracking when he's in
large group but I can manually do that by long pressing on the screen on the
app and then I can track so he's no good if you're trying to do something on your
own, in a large group like this it just can't see him and keeps locking on to closer people.
It's locked on to Fiona and Max is behind Fiona so that's worth keeping in mind.
I'm sure those of you into action will come up with a better use of the slow motion
feature than this but it's worth noting it can do slow motion at 1080p and 120
frames a second. When editing the footage I then speed that up to give the normal
speed section before allowing it to play out 120 frames given the slow-mo effect
So what I'm enjoying about this little Obsbot is I don't really need to worry
about it I can just get on with whatever it is I'm getting on with to film and it
will follow me about as I'm moving around so right now I'm just setting up to do
do some more product reviews filming and you see the camera is tracking me as I
move around but if this is not what you want at the time if a moving shot isn't
quite right what are you doing you can either via the app or via a hand gesture
lock the gimbal in place and still move around and again via a hand gesture you
can unlock it. It's a really cool little system that means you don't have your
phone or app on you there's various other hand gestures that you can do
though I'm still trying to get the hang of and I find hand gestures
together with the app mean that this is a brilliant system so let's talk
about the app you saw on the field I had to manually intervene and that was using
me Obsbot companion app, it's very simple to set up you have to connect to
the camera's Wi-Fi first, fire up the app and then it will automatically connect
to the camera it'll do a quick check to make sure you're using the latest
firmware and so far I've had to updates mine twice, they've obviously just
released this and getting a lot of feedback and they're already working on
new firmware and pushing that out. Once you're connected you've got lots of
features and functions that you can use your mobile for so at the moment you can
see for example that the camera isn't tracking me I can simply tap the screen
and now it will begin to track me you can see it's doing it in a rather slow
manner that's because I have not defined myself as the target so if we simply
click 'quick' now that I'm defined as the target you can see it moves around much
quicker. You do you have control over the tracking speed so I've got it set to
normal let's first set it's crazy so if you were moving around incredibly quick
you'd want this to be in crazy mode but for most people that might be a little
bit too severe. If we set this to lazy mode you can see this will now be a much
slower tracking it doesn't jump around as much, it's not quite as severe, and
that's a lot more suitable if you're only going to be doing slow movement
just generally walking about, it stops it from being quite so jarring as
the camera moves around and of course if you don't want any movement at all you
can simply lock the camera in place. If when it's locked it's not quite the
right position you saw me do this just a moment ago on the field you can simply
long press and drag it around and get that camera positioned exactly where you
want it to be. You also have manual control over the zoom you can simply
press in the little button there and you can zoom in up to three and a half times
and there it's auto focused onto my face and again let's zoom back out.
You've also got custom gestures so these allow you to control the camera without your
phone so if there's something you want to do quite a lot so a zoom roll for
example if I do this you see it starts to zoom and roll in if I do it again it
should zoom back out and return back to the normal position. You can activate
any of these as well just by dragging them over, if you didn't want to zoom you
just wanted a roll that's not a problem and it's activated straightaway and
again I just do that and take it off
there we go, now it's off! You can see there's three gestures that you can
customize. There's a lot to like about this little camera I'm finding it's
really interesting to use, it's given me a new range of motion I wouldn't
normally be able to get because I film on my own. Still getting the hang of it
as you can tell, still getting the hang of the gestures, still understanding what the
little lights mean at the bottom of the camera I need to learn when it's telling
me it's recording when it's not recording and I've had to order an extra
memory card because the one that comes with it is the only 32 gig and if you're
gonna be recording a lot of video footage you're going to need something
like a 128 gig card. I hope you've enjoyed this video if you have please
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description below about the Obsbot if you want to learn more...thanks for
watching I'll see on the next review.