Editing Gimbal (section)

=== Photography and imaging ===
[[File:Gimbal 8jo WATANABEhachijo.jpg|thumb|Man using gimbal for smartphone]]
[[File:Baker-Nunn camera 001.JPG|thumb|A Baker-Nunn satellite-tracking camera on an altitude-altitude-azimuth mount]]

Gimbals are also used to mount everything from small [[camera lens]]es to large photographic telescopes.

In portable photography equipment, single-axis gimbal heads are used in order to allow a balanced movement for camera and lenses.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gimbalreview.com/|title=3-Axis Handheld GoPro Gimbals|year=2017|website=gimbalreview.com|publisher=GimbalReview|access-date=7 May 2017}}</ref> This proves useful in [[wildlife photography]] as well as in any other case where very long and heavy [[telephoto lens]]es are adopted: a gimbal head rotates a lens around its [[center of gravity]], thus allowing for easy and smooth manipulation while tracking moving subjects.

Very large gimbal mounts in the form 2 or 3 axis [[Telescope mount#Alt-alt (altitude-altitude) mounts|altitude-altitude mount]]s<ref>{{cite journal|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=rmbyAAAAMAAJ&q=AFU-75 |journal=Soviet Journal of Optical Technology |volume= 43 |title= Article| publisher= Optical Society of America, American Institute of Physics |page= 119 |year= 1976 |number= 3}}</ref> are used in [[satellite photography]] for tracking purposes.

Gyrostabilized gimbals which house multiple sensors are also used for airborne surveillance applications including airborne law enforcement, pipe and power line inspection, [[Cartography|mapping]], and ISR ([[intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance]]).  Sensors include [[thermal imaging]], daylight, low light cameras as well as [[laser range finder]], and [[Fire-control radar|illuminators]].<ref>{{cite book|last= Dietsch |first= Roy |title= Airborne Gimbal Camera – Interface Guide |year= 2013 |url= http://ruggedvid.com/airborne-gimbal-camera-interface-guide/}}</ref>

Gimbal systems are also used in scientific optics equipment. For example, they are used to rotate a material sample along an axis to study their angular dependence of optical properties.<ref>{{Cite journal|date=2018-12-01|title=3-D printable open source dual axis gimbal system for optoelectronic measurements|journal=Mechatronics|language=en|volume=56|pages=175–187|doi=10.1016/j.mechatronics.2018.07.005|issn=0957-4158|last1=Bihari|first1=Nupur|last2=Dash|first2=Smruti Prasad|last3=Dhankani|first3=Karankumar C.|last4=Pearce|first4=Joshua M.|s2cid=115286364|url=https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02111352/file/3-D_Printable_Open_Source_Dual_Axis_Gimb.pdf}}</ref>