Glide GearCYL100 Cellfie Stabilizer for Smart Phone & GoPro

The company needs to be more honest about its video footage. This product does help stabilize the shots, to a degree, but not as much as their videos show. I think they are using stabilization built in to iPhone 6's coupled with their cellfie stabilizer. I could be wrong, but even after hours of fine tuning, testing on different cell phones/gopros and weights, I couldn't come close to their results. I will try my friends iPhone 6 plus to see if that does the trick, but I want it to look good with my Samsung S5.I don't know if they used any post stabilization in their videos because it doesn't say...but at any rate, it does a decent job of taking out "wiggles" but don't expect the movi, steadicam-like moves that you are seeing in the video unless you have a camera that has some stabilization on it as well, and maybe a bit of warp-stabilizer in post. Don't get me wrong, it's better than nothing, but not much better than walking around with a monopod as a stabilizer. A little disappointed.Also, the 5 star reviews from November 2014 seem fishy because they all came out around the same time (around the release of the Cellfie) and have nothing negative to say. Probably company-based reviews.****************************************UPDATE: I tried it at work on the iPhone 6 plus and sure enough, the video looks a lot more fluid and stable. Which means that the phone is doing most of the heavy lifting. I tried using the iPhone without the Cellifie and it still looked pretty darn good in terms of non-shakiness. So this product might be a nice addition for iPhone 6 users and whatever comes next, but I can't recommend it to people with phones or devices that pick up small jitters from movement. Try it out when the price comes down to $50.

I had got this so I can give it to my boy on his birthday so that he can keep doing his videos with his phone. Well his birthday has not arrived yet but I did take it out for a quick test run. First right out of the box it looks and feels well made. I set my phone in it with my heavy protective case and it clamped on it very well. It is very tricky to balance, but it is tough to find the sweat spot of the balancing point, but with that being said I was trying to do it very quickly so my boy would not see me using it. haha! As for now I rate it at a three just because I have not had much time with it and don't want to get ahead of myself and say it was great without using it more. For the price, maybe a bit high but hey they did seem to use good quality parts! One I have time to mess with it a little more, and if I don't forget I will return to update my rating Good or Bad.

I had searched for a Stabalizer for quite some time and finally settled on this one due to the reviews and videos I saw on it. Unfortunately it didn't work half as well as I had hoped.I had seen another reviewer mention that the ball and socket at the top would fall out. I unfortunately had the same thing happen and TWICE! First time my camera fell into the kitchen sink. The second time it fell onto BRICKS!!! Not good and I was not happy. Luckily, for me, I have the GoPro Hero 2 which has a case. If it wasn't for the case I'm sure my camera would have broke. Thank GOD it didn't.The problem, I feel, is that this device is not compatible with the Hero 2. They are thicker cameras, I have an LCD back on it and the casing weighs it down as well. I think the Glide Gear was made for the Go Pro 3 and 4. I even had taken off the LCD back, put on the smaller back case to close it and I was still at the 100 mark. I was up to 105 with the LCD and bigger case on and no matter how hard I tried to adjust it it was never balanced. It was close but never completely.So I hope this review is helpful to other Hero 2 owners out there. Like I said, I really wanted to like this... in fact I was hoping to love it but it just didn't happen ; (

Quality is not up to expectations! I received the Stabilizer, planned to use it with my gopro the chart for calibration was handy but slightly off. While setting up my rig I noticed the collar around the handle bearing was broken, not a huge issue because it has no bearing on function. Once I set up the gopro and balanced it I wanted to test its true center so holding the handle at a 45 degree angle I tilted the stabilizer parallel to the ground. It fell off, my gopro fell off and no it was not improperly installed the rotating adapter that came with the stabilizer had the neck (or stem) separate from the rotating ball adapter. I have to use the rig for an event in the next few days so I will resort to using JB weld on the metal piece meaning yeah I'm going to deal with it. Despite apparently having received the unit that was made on Friday 30 minutes before the end of the work day at the Glide Gear factory the stabilizer still was fairly functional. I will say the stabilizer does a good job at reducing that annoying camera bounce and once the stabilizer is micro adjusted it provided much assistance. Sad the quality control guys must have been on some other project because for the price I paid I'm not impressed.

As with all non gimbal based camera stabilization systems proper balance is ultra critical. Initial balancing is tedious and time consuming but rewarding. There are some good set up tutorials on you tube. I will re emphasize, before. adjusting for swing speed (approximately 2 seconds). insure that the assembled unit (camera and stabilizer) hangs vertical. If you try to compensate for lean by extending the lower unit further, you will be creating a very annoying pendulum. After you have achieved proper balance and swing time. The next step is to learn to walk with out stomping about. :) Flying the camera take a bit of practice. If any of this seems excessively daunting, Possibly a powered gimbal unit would be a better investment.

I purchased the Cellfie to use with my iPhone 6s as I wanted to see what results could be obtained at this low price point.The setup time is definitely the hardest part as it requires the phone to be balanced in order to achieved the best stability, finding the balancing point can be a tedious process but once it's there you can get some very smooth flowing shots.The biggest downside for me is when filming outside because if there is any wind this will cause the camera to sway and that ruins the whole effect!Overall a good product for the price but best used indoor or outside with no wind.

Pas convaincu par le fonctionnement pas utilisé acheter plutôt un stabilisateur électrique

Produit de très bonne qualité en terme de finition.Ce stabilisateur semble solide.En revanche il est plutôt fastidieux à l'usage car il faut systématiquement passer du temps pour trouver la bonne orientation et inclinaison de la caméra (GoPro pour ma part) afin que l'image soit horizontale avant de filmer.En marchant un peu vite l'effet balancier apparaît ce qui n'est pas top...Je ne recommande que moyennement ce produit.

Cercavo qualcosa di facile utilizzo e calibrazione, questo prodotto non ha fatto al caso mio in quanto abbastanza difficile da calibrare (a mio avviso). Ma ottimi i materiali e la completezza del prodotto. Consigliato a chi magari lo sa calibrare.

Very difficult to use...