Snoppa Rover is a promising electric tripod prototype that offers both automatic modes and a fully manual remote control mode with camera control and image stabilization. The dampening system in each arm of the spreader promises to ensure smooth movement on uneven surfaces. While the availability of the Snoppa Rover is unknown, the price should be $2,399 at launch. In case you never heard about the company, Snoppa Tech is a Chinese tech company based in Shenzhen. A brief look on their website reveals that so far they have only created a few products. On top of five different models of gimbals for smartphones, action cams, or cameras – such as the Snoppa Go from 2016 – Snoppa also offers a “DJI-Osmo-Pocket-like” gimbal camera called Snoppa Vmate. Interestingly, the Vmate is being sold on B&H as Benro Vmate so this can be a bit confusing. The most recent product, although still at a prototype stage, is a bit more interesting device. The Snoppa Rover is promising to be a motorized tripod dolly with a plethora of intelligent features. Let’s take a look at the details. Snoppa Rover While the market of handheld gimbals has definitely been over-saturated in the past years, when it comes to motorized tripod dollies the competition is scarce. Some of the features that the Rover promises are even unheard of in such a device as far as I know. The Snoppa Rover is basically a three-wheeled bottom spreader for a tripod that can drive and stabilize...
Published By: CineD - Tuesday, 18 January, 2022