DJI RSC 2 Active Tracking with RavenEye VS Ronin SC. Do you need the pro bundle? Buyers warning

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Do I need to buy the pro bundle? Do I need RavenEye to do active tracking on the DJI RSC 2?

DJI Ronin SC 2 (RSC 2) came out later this year and one of the MAIN reasons their initial spotlights on these things caught my eye was ACTIVE TRACKING through this Raven Eye Transmitter. I wanted to be able to do subject tracking, and motion tracking with my gimbal.

With the old Ronin SC you could do active tracking, but in order to make it work, you have to mount your phone to the top of your camera, and you can only use a lens thats something close to your phone lens because its looking through your phone to do the tracking, and then your phone is sending commands to the gimbal for it to move. But it made the rig awkwardly weighted and also, you can only start it and pick a subject to track THROUGh your phone, which is mounted on top of the camera and facing forward, which makes it really hard to pick yourself as that subject. And also, this meant that when you were done with whatever tracking shot and you wanted to be able to use your phone again, now you have to re-balance the gimbal and its a whole thing. It was always just enough of a hassle that I didn’t ever use it.

With the addition of this raven eye transmitter - the new RSC2 can see directly through your cameras eye, and take control of the gimbal to track subjects, the same tracking technology thats in their Mavic drones…

The raven eye module connects directly to your camera and your gimbal; it sees through your camera, which means you can use any lens you want, and then sends that view to your phone where you can then swipe and select a subject, making it much easier for you yourself to BE that subject, even from across the room. For me, this is going to totally change the way I can shoot DIY stuff because I have this whole warehouse that I can move around in and the camera SHOULD just stay on me all the time. Another good use for this technology is tracking a subject that ISNT moving, but that you are moving around.. Maybe youre on a bicycle or a skateboard or something and you want a smooth track but what whatever reason youre unable to look at the monitor of the gimbal, now the raven eye can do the work of keeping the subject in frame while you move the camera rig through space.

BUT, when you buy this gimbal, you have two choices. You’ll see them listed as DJI RSC 2 3-Axis Gimbal Stabilizer for $499.99, and DJI RSC 2 Pro Combo 3-Axis Gimbal Stabilizer for $739.99. If you want to use Active Track with this gimbal, you’ll have to buy the pro combo.

What ISNT initially totally clear with their promotions and everything I read about it, was that active track is NOT built into the gimbal, and the Raven Eye doesn’t come with it UNLESS you buy the “pro combo.” The Pro Combo is a couple hundred dollars more, it comes with a focus motor so you can use manual lenses, a set of metal feet instead of plastic ones, a mount for your phone so it can hang off the side of the gimbal and be a monitor (and also control the raven eye) and a bunch more little bits and cords and mounts and things.

Its this Raven Eye Module that makes it so your gimbal can do active tracking. It IS available for sale independently, but its not in any stores and at least at the time of filming, its sold out everywhere. It mounts directly to the gimbal and sits under your camera and you’ll plug in an HDMI cable from your camera to the raven eye, and then a data cable from the raven eye to the gimbal, and also another data cable from the gimbal back to your camera - allowing a perfect circle of data harmony to flow through the whole system.

If you choose the cheaper option, what youre getting is basically a slightly stronger, more refined, easier to balance version of the Ronin SC with a tiny LED screen for settings and a focus wheel.

I love my Ronin SC, and the RSC 2 seems to fix each of the small things that made it cumbersome. The biggest being the active tracking; but they’ve also made a huge improvement on balancing. On the older Ronin SC, if you ever took the camera off and then put it back on again, you’d have to go back through half of the balancing process to get it perfect. Now, as long as youre always using the same camera with your RSC 2, they’ve swapped out the mount so that you balance it once, and theres a mechanism to just clip out your camera, and slide and click it back in - poof, still balanced. That and the payload capacity goes up to 3kg from 2kg because of the stronger motors, making this thing just a better gimbal!

Link to the RSC 2 Pro Combo https://amzn.to/3aCbh5D
Link to Ronin SC Pro Combo https://amzn.to/3mMihiS
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