We've reviewed a number of Zhiyun gimbals in recent years, but that's not even the half of the Chinese firm's dizzying pace of releases, seemingly slotting a new gimbal into a specific niche every few months.
If it's not an entirely new gimbal range, it'll be a refresh of an existing product, often including those with an immediate predecessor still decidedly fresh in many people's minds.
Still, technology moves at a pace these days, you snooze you lose etc, so here we are checking out the Smooth 5, one up from the 4. What's new?
Moving as it must in tandem with advances in smartphone capability - which in turn raises exciting new use cases for the hardware, which in its way begets heightened creative demands from users of peripherals - Zhiyun is firmly positioning the Smooth 5 as the gimbal for the mobile filmmaker.
This is totally a thing now: with 4K video almost as standard on many handsets, there are few creative barriers...