Setup Steps

The items will ship separately and in their original packaging for safety. Follow these steps to set up the Pixy S and Sony A7R V on the X55.

1. Gather necessary items from the various packages (shown from left to right here: X55 to gimbal power cable, gimbal damping plate with connectors attached, Pixy S gimbal, Sony A7R V camera body, Zeiss Ventum lens)

2. Carefully remove the cover from the lens and also from the camera body

3. Line up the blue dot on the lens with the white dot on the camera body, and carefully insert the lens into the camera body - then twist the lens clockwise until it locks in place and you hear a click.

4. Adjust the roll cage axis of the gimbal to about -0.45 on the dial and lock it in place using the cam lever.

5. Adjust the pitch cage to 1.9 and lock it in place.

6. Loosely insert the camera in the cage, and then loosely thread in the mounting screw from below - do not tighten yet.

7. Thread in the silver knob all the way and make sure it is snug, in order to lock the camera body retaining clip to the frame.

8. Fully tighten the screw on the bottom of the cage.

9. Install the damping plate onto the rails under the X55, making sure that the arrow on the damping plate is facing forwards. Before doing this, you need to make sure that one of the brackets has the 4 screws underneath it loosened so that the bracket can slide (see first picture below)

10. Visually align the mounting bracket locations with the landing gear of the drone. They should be aligned on both sides, and still free to slide back and forth on the rails, since nothing has been tightened down yet.

11. With a 2.5mm ball-nose hex tool, tighten down all of the screws on the rail clamps (both sides - 4 screws total).

12. Tighten down the 4 screws under the clamp that was left loose at the beginning of the process.

13. Plug in the connector from the gimbal to the port on the drone and carefully attach the cables to the rail using a velcro strap, making sure not to over tighten or strain the wires and connectors.

14. Remove the accessory power port cap, install the gimbal power cable, and then plug the other side into the gimbal.

15. Carefully strap the power cable to the rail using a velcro strap.

16. Install the gimbal to the damping plate, making sure to align the white marks on each. Carefully lift up the gimbal and center it within the damping plate, then turn the collar to the left until it snaps into place.

17. Remove the lens cap from the lens and evaluate the balance. If the gimbal is not perfectly balanced in pitch or roll, make some fine adjustments using the thumb screws and sliding the pitch and roll cages to correct the imbalance.