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Holiday Gift Guide – Best Tripods, Sliders and Gimbals of 2021

The season of giving is upon us – which becomes immediately obvious whenever you walk into a store and you’re overwhelmed by Whamageddon. If you want to avoid the Christmas music and prefer to do your shopping online, then have no fear, DIYP’s 2021 Holiday Gift Guides are here to rescue you with some of our favourite new releases of the year, as well as a few old favourites that always seem to find a place in our gear bags.

In this post, we’re going to be taking a look at Tripods, Sliders & Gimbals. Keep an eye out for our next guide coming tomorrow covering other photography and filmmaking accessories and gadgets and be sure to check out our previous guide going over the best of this year’s new Cameras, lenses and lighting gear.

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The Moza AirCross 3 is a transformable gimbal that switches between classic and underslung modes

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Gudsen has today officially announced the Moza AirCross 3 – an update to its popular Moza AirCross 2 gimbal for small DSLRs and mirrorless cameras. Gudsen describes the AirCross 3 as “four gimbals in one” combining the classic single handle approach along with sling mode, dual-handle mode and a grip extension for use with devices like the Slypod Pro.

It inherits a number of features from the AirCross 2, though. It’s still a fairly small lightweight gimbal that you can easily slip into a backpack and it allows you to mount the camera in vertical mode for you social media shooters using the supplied quick release L plate.

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Gudsen’s Mirfak WE10 Pro 2.4Ghz dual wireless lav kit records a backup straight to microSD

Gudsen, manufacturer of the popular Moza line of gimbals has been branching out into audio recently under the brand Mirfak. Their latest release, the Mirfak WE10 Pro is a wireless lav mic system operating at 2.4Ghz. The WE10 Pro comes with a pair of transmitters and a single receiver allowing you to go solo and record just yourself or a two-way conversation or interview with somebody else.

Both the transmitter and receiver feature a built-in battery, providing up to 5 hours of use for the transmitter and up to 8 hours for the receiver. The transmitters have both built-in mics as well as a 3.5mm lav mic socket. They also feature built-in microSD card slots (supporting up to 64GB), so that if you experience dropout or interference, you haven’t lost your recording.

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The Moza Air 2S gimbal offers 20 hours of runtime and focus wheel like a fishing reel handle

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Gudsen has announced their new Moza Air 2S gimbal; successor to their popular Moza Air 2. It brings with it a new battery offering up to 20 hours of use, with rapid charging taking you from flat-to-full in a mere 2 hours compared to 16 hours of use and 5 hours charge time of its predecessor as well as an all-new metal construction.

The new Air 2S offers a similar load capacity to the Air 2 and while it might seem like an incremental update, it offers some some nice advantages and improvements. As well as one new feature that seems a little… odd. There’s a little flippy out handle on the focus wheel so you can spin it like a fishing reel.

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The Moza Moin Camera is a tiny gimbal camera with a huge touchscreen LCD

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Gudsen has launched its first camera. It’s the tiny gimbal stabilised Moza Moin Camera with a big 2.45″ flippy out touchscreen LCD. The lens offers a nice wide 120° field of view with a 1/2.3″ sensor. It shoots 12-megapixel photos, shoots 4K video at 60 frames per second,  or offers 1080p slow motion at 200 frames per second.

Designed to shoot both what you see as well as for vloggers, the Moin Camera’s view can face either forward in the direction you’re looking or back towards yourself when you want to speak to the camera and keeps it steady whichever way it’s pointed and it can also track your face to ensure you’re always the centre of attention.

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Moza’s new Mini-MX is a folding smartphone gimbal that works with your native camera app

Gudsen has announced the new Moza Mini-MX gimbal. Designed for smartphones, it’ll let you shoot horizontally for something a little more cinematic but also vertically for your Instagram Stories, TikTok and other social media platforms. It’s also a folding gimbal that actually folds small enough that you can slip it into your pocket.

It features what Gudsen calls their “Deep Red” anti-shake algorithm to help handle extreme movements while walking and running. It features subject tracking (including autofocus) and a number of different shooting modes. But probably its most useful feature is that it actually works as a standard Bluetooth trigger to start/stop recording, which means you don’t need to use a dedicated app!

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The MOZA Mini-P is a $199 gimbal that works with action cameras, smartphones and mirrorless

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Gudsen has just launched their new MOZA Mini-P. It’s a $199 gimbal that works with everything from action cameras and smartphones to compacts and small mirrorless cameras. And it folds up small to pack away when you’re not using it, too.

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The Moza Slypod – Gimmick or a valuable tool for filmmakers?

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The world was introduced to the Moza Slypod in grand fashion at NAB 2019 earlier this year. We went to the Gudsen stand to check it out while we were there, too. It’s an interesting device, with a whole new take on the camera slider form factor. It essentially looks like a motorised monopod, but how good is it really? In this video, Caleb Pike walks us around the features of the Slypod, and what he thinks about it.

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The ultralight Moza AirCross 2 lets you mount the Pocket 4K without a cage – even vertically

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The recently announced Moza AirCross 2 is the latest 3-axis motorised gimbal from Gudsen. It was originally teased at NAB 2019, but now it’s been officially announced and is available to order. Gudsen were showing off the Moza AirCross 2 at IBC 2019 in Amsterdam, so we went to go talk to them and find out more about it.

And, yes, while this will upset some and make others giddy, you can mount your camera to it vertically. Of course, it does accept cameras the old fashioned horizontal way, too.

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Gudsen’s new Moza AirCross 2 is an ultra light gimbal with 360° rotation on all axes and 7lb load capacity

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First shown off at NAB 2019, Gudsen has now announced availability and pricing for the Moza AirCross 2. It weighs in at only 950g with a 3.2kg (7lb load capacity), contains a 3,000mAh battery offering 12 hours of runtime, it fits the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4K (and 6K) natively without weird offset brackets and it’s only $429.

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