So, the first time we watched this
Macbreak video, we thought to ourselves, "now, this is downright silly" but the second time? Well... we probably won't be investing $300 in a pro Red Rocks Micro shoulder mount for any
iPhone 3GSs anytime soon, but the video does demonstrate what we all already knew: if you stabilize an even decent mobile phone cam, the results are better than if you don't. Insane? Surely. Hit the second read link for the video.
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Read - Video of iPhone 3GS with shoulder mount
posted June 25th 2009 1:16AM
Umm....
Someone please tell the Winbots that are fawning all over MS in the Zune HD story (YOU SWIPE TO CONTROL IT! THE INNOVATION IS ASTOUNDING!!!) that there's a new Apple story up - they need to get on over here and make crude comments about Steve Jobs and rage about fanboys and such.
Quickly now!
I'm thinking the same thing as you Luke. Umm...is that the annoying guy from Cloverfield who never puts the camera down even in face of certain doom and is all the rage at parties?
these are the guys that feed the trolls...
@panid, my thoughts exactly
@luke, my thoughts exactly
Some people have too much free time/money... Only thing good enough to need this type of rig is an SLR or maybe a very high end point and shoot (or most $400+ consumer camcorders), putting it on a phone is pointless. Now, using your iphone as a touchscreen remote/viewfinder for a decent camera (especially slrs), that would be something.
@Quix.
Wow, you Apple fanatics are so pathetic now that you need to pre-troll a story in order to try to cover for how silly some of this stuff is.
obvious troll is obvious
i still don't understand why people like Look_Around_You are spending so much time trying to undo the trolling and pointing it out to others... it's funny the first few times watching these trolls getting pwn3d by u guys, but it's now getting tiresome
if you guys just leave these trolls alone, they'll die on their own without the feeding. you guys are just seemingly feeding the fire... i'm not sure if you guys are doing it on purpose (just like these trolls starting the flame on purpose) or you guys are just plain stupid and can't recognise what they're doing...
Leave it to Apple to do the best.
Now that is creative. :)
Watch as M$ tries to copy this for their Zune HD... Opps, oh, the Zune HD has no Camera.
Well, M$ fanboys will need to wait until Zune HDX-554 is out.
Yeah it's overkill.
As a filmmaker I can say that the crazy thing is though the iphone will be shooting 720p video (the ARM processor in already has the capacity to do this)by June next year and 1080p in 2011 or 2012 - people will be making feature films on mobile phones very shortly. By 2015 phones will have 2K resolution video as a pretty standard feature AND the footage will be amazing off them.
@ tm23
Yes, but even with 8K footage coming from iPhone, it'll never EVER match the quality and DOF as it's simply just too small. Not even trying to mention colors, light response etc... But hey, I've seen some amazing footage shot on very low end electronics, so who knows?
Don't show Peter Jackson though...
That guy was very annoying
@Gus Umm you do realize that Look is the ultimate troll right? Seen an apple article that he hasn’t posted negatively in lately? Nope didn’t think so. Obviously Quix IS a moron though.
awww !!
look at this
http://blogs.nokia.com/nseries/index.php/2009/06/25/noisettes-shoot-latest-video-on-the-nokia-n95-8gb-and-5800/
Leave it to Alex. I'm surprised that didn't cost 2k :)
You mean 3 Alexes? :-p
why??
Gosh.... isn't this going too far for a 3mpx camera with no optical zoom..
What is the relevance of the 3MP resolution of the still camera? This rig is for video, which is VGA resolution.
Alex Lindsay FTW as far as I'm concerned. Wow!
I was thinking more along the lines of WTF.
Yes Fernando, you usually do.
wow, thats pretty lame.
Not enough shoulder-mounted 3GS video.
It almost resembles a transformer…
looks more like johnny 5
Now, do they make this for the new Nikon and Canon cameras that shoot fairly good quality 1080p videos?
Yes.
http://www.redrockmicro.com/dslr/
Yes, but you can't afford them.
If you really need a shoulder rig to shoot video with your D-SLR, then you're probably making money off of that video and the shoulder rig is a justifiable business expense. Of course, they're still overpriced.
virtual boy?
It still seems a little shaky for me considering you have a crap load of hardware attached. I think they missed the point on the convenient thing. If I had a case to carry all of that equipment attached to the iphone, then I would also have the pro. camera to go along with it. Unless they can make it so it is like go go gadget iphone rig, then I will pass.
Wow... thats just... wow...
If they weren't concerned about size they should have made it bigger
Worst thing is that he seems to believe the phone is the first to be able to upload to youtube while on the phone. Considering how many phones can do that already the number of Iphones will fail in comparison to all the phones that currently allow this.
No no, its on THE iPhone, therefore, Apple invented it. QED.
Apparently there are a number of you who take things far to seriously. It's a joke people. Obviously they have a very nice camera already, but every gadget nerd loves to actually PLAY with their gadgets, right? I don't think he means that any serious pro videographer is going to be trying this out. They did it for fun.
Stress and envy do that to normally functioning individuals.
Thank you for being the first rational person to point that out here. I'm starting to get sick of the kind of comments I see on Engadget, digg and sites like it. People are way too cynical these days, they can't seem to realize that sometimes gadget geeks just do outrageous things for sh*ts and giggles.
Exactly. When i was working for a wireless ISP in fort worth, we had a LAN party at the park like a picnic. Everyone came out with their computers, i tapped into the wireless and we BBQ'd and played MOHAA and COD2 until the generators ran out of gas. We could have just had the lan party in a spot that you know, had power and Internet, but that’s not as much fun.
They're not 'taking things far too seriously', they're just doing their usual anti-Apple trolling, that they do on every single article (Apple-related or not).
The immature Apple-bashing has been going on now for more than a year, it keeps on getting worse and worse as the bad (Saad Rabia) give way to the terrible (Look_Around_You).
Engadget have never looked like they're going to do anything about it ... but they'll try to "protect" the MS crowd - I remember seeing a 'please Apple fans, don't troll' message on a MS launch article that was never reciprocated on any Apple article, despite the hysteria, slander and outright personal attacks that the anti-Apple trolls engage in.
I'm going to stick with "Umm....."
I heard Transformers 3 is going to be shot this way. Makes a way better crash cam than a $30,000+ film camera.
lol wouldn't be much worse than part 2 according to the reviews.
That would be a joke even if it was made for a phone that actually has a good camera
roflmao. 'nuff said.
Kudos to Chris Dunning.. these guys are just having fun with their new toy.. this is obviously not meant to be taken very seriously... LIGHTEN UP PEOPLE! don't be a hater.
Overkill.
Stuff like this gets done all the time for commercials or feature films.
The director wants a particular look for a particular shot.
To get it you need to shoot on a handicam or a mobile phone or whatever crappy camera is suitable.
Except even though you want a crappy image, you still need it smooth or in focus or whatever, so you need to add normal accessories to it, like you would a big camera.
Whole music videos have been shot on mobile phones.
I'm not aware of any feature films that have been shot on mobile phones, but several features have been shot on Fisher Price Pixelvision toy cameras for example.
Thank you. Someone has probably decided they're going to shoot a video or feature on the iPhone and needed something like this, certainly a gimmick but that qualifies as a characteristic whether you like it or not. The truth is, this is just a Red Rock platform that can be used for many cameras depending on which little accessories you attach to it, like the arm shown holding the iPhone. This is more a case of "Well, why not?" than the condescending stream of "Why?" seen here.
you giggle? if this was for palm or nokia or something else, you'd not even BOTHER to make an article about it..
this is pure bullsh!t.