The Bolgoda (Panadura) River as seen from "Sudaliya," a house in Moratuwa (4k)

The Bolgoda River is a river system situated in the Western Province of Sri Lanka and straddling the border between the Colombo and the Kalutara District. It has five divisions, one of which is the Pandura River, which falls to the sea at the Panadura estuary.
This video features a panoramic view of the Bolgoda (Pandura) river from a house named "Sudaliya" situated in Moratuwa and overlooking the river. It is actually a little down the road from where I live.
Filmed and edited by Leonard Jayawardena.
The gear used:
Camera: Canon M6 Mark ii
Lenses:
Canon ef-m 22mm
Canon efs 10-18mm
Canon efs 18-135mm
Canon ef 70-300mm
Ronin SC-2 gimbal
Syrp Genie Mini ii
Sirui VA-5 tripod
The music track "In the Temple Garden" by Aaron Kenny downloaded from the RUclips Audio Library.

[@daseinhobo]

Beautiful video! Very nice soft movements. What tripod and video head are you using?

[@srilankavideos6105]

Thanks. The smooth panning/tilt movements were not achieved manually. For the first and second pan/tilt shots I used a DJI Ronin gimbal set to a very slow panning/tilt speed with the gimbal mounted on a tripod. The second pan shot was filmed with the camera fitted with a telephoto lens mounted on a special panning device (Syrp Genie Mini ii), which in turn was mounted on the tripod. Though I didn’t do it in this case, the Genie Mini ii should be mounted on a video/ball head to allow tilting.
I don’t think it’s possible to achieve this level of sustained smoothness by panning manually with a video head however steady your hands may be.

[@daseinhobo]

@@srilankavideos6105 Thanks for the answer! If you watch National Geographic films or any sports broadcast, most of the panning there was and is being filmed with mechanical video heads. Electronic devices appeared quite recently, and before that, for decades, everything was filmed exclusively with mechanical stabilizers, tripods, sliders.

[@srilankavideos6105]

@@daseinhobo If you are filming a sports event or animals in motion I don’t think there is any alternative to manual panning and tilting with a mechanical device such as a video head.