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2021-04-26T14:17:22.162Z


| Reviews New worlds of photography with the phone: The Pivo will allow you to shoot videos in motion in 360 degrees with the smartphone • Who is it suitable for? We checked Pivo // Photo: Ehud Keinan In the early years of the movie camera, it was impossible to move it. The first films in history looked static - a fixed frame within which movement and occurrence - with no right and left movements, up or d


New worlds of photography with the phone: The Pivo will allow you to shoot videos in motion in 360 degrees with the smartphone • Who is it suitable for?

We checked

  • Pivo // Photo: Ehud Keinan

In the early years of the movie camera, it was impossible to move it.

The first films in history looked static - a fixed frame within which movement and occurrence - with no right and left movements, up or down.

Almost 130 years later, the heavy and cumbersome camera has become something to put in your pocket.

But in ticketing and storytelling videos filmed alone and from a distance: she still hasn’t moved.

We need to limit ourselves and be creative within the frame.

There are all sorts of external solutions to this problem, which do not require anyone else to be a photographer including the Pivo Pod.

This is a stand for a phone with a motor, which moves right or left fully - 360 degrees.

Pivo has three versions: Black, Red and Silver - which this review covers.

The kit has two adapters for holding a smartphone, both suitable for horizontal or vertical position.

And you can connect the Pivo to a standard tripod with a 0.25 "screw thread - although you can simply place it on a high shelf. The battery is charged via MicroUSB and lasted at least 10 hours of work, when it only takes about an hour to charge it.

From this description, it sounds like this is a pretty simple product.

But as you use it and the app that accompanies it, you discover new worlds of photography with the phone.

The most basic option is to move the Pivo using a remote control, which also allows you to record, freeze the recording and stop it completely.

Already here you can make simple movie charms that everyone is familiar with.

And from here it just gets better.

After connecting the phone to the Pivo via Bluetooth, the app knows how to move it automatically via tracking our face so that we can talk and move our head without fear of getting out of the frame;

Using body tracking - which allows you to dance and jump when the smartphone is far from us;

Or by tracking a horse. 

Yes, there were three points of dramatic pause, and I would like to have a button in the app with an illustration of a horse, which when pressed, the camera can move and record riding. Why this very specific animal? Great question. Perhaps this is also a tribute to the early days of photography in the late 19th century, when one of the first developments documented a galloping horse, in a number of consecutive and adjacent images, in order to test whether it lifts all four of its legs in the air.

Beyond those, the Pivo makes it possible to do all sorts of nice manipulations in photography.

There is, for example, a "flash" mode - which allows us to forge our quick transitions between different places;

"Double Take" - the camera records us for a few seconds and then moves and returns after replacing something in the frame (e.g. replacing the subject with someone else, or wearing a costume);

Duel ("VS") - short scenes in which the camera rotates quickly and in a wash effect, between two people doing something;

Time-lapse photography while rotating, "duplicate" modes that allow us to appear several times in a photo or video and talk to ourselves or dance with ourselves and more.

The Pivo also allows you to take an object that we want to document in a 360-degree motion (although this requires attaching a plate or plate stably to the Pivo, and place the phone on a separate tripod), and also allows you to take accurate 60-360-degree panoramas, without relying On our trembling hands and the very inaccurate movement, which will lead to a smeared image.

The Pivo's tracking and movement are pretty good, but we need to learn the rhythm of the tripod and schedule our movement accordingly - meaning a jumping and dancing movie didn’t come out perfect on the first time.

Maybe not for the fifth time either.

But after a few days of trial and error - it gets simple.

Especially given the fact that the app is very simple to operate and very clear - each button has an illustration, and at the beginning of each use there is a short animated guide that shows how to do what.

The Pivo significantly upgrades the history and ticketing videos, and the more creative you are, the cooler things can be made with it.

The Pivo Silver reviewed costs NIS 599, and there are different versions of the product with more or less options for NIS 499 to NIS 799.

For those who take regular pictures on social networks - this is a pretty lucrative deal. 

And in order not to keep you in suspense - at 1,877, long before the Pivo was invented, a yeast horse was indeed able to document all four of its legs in the air while galloping.

Source: israelhayom

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