The new Steadicam Smoothee

The lens on the iPhone thing is fine, some guy is just holding a lens up to an iphone with some gaffa tape, no real effort required.

Tiffen however have spent however much on moulds, tooling, research etc etc, and for what? Holding a lens up to an iphone is a bit of a fun gimmick (just like the smoothee) but it costs nothing.
 
Postmaster said:
Ha! That Steadicam Smoothee is a cheap Manfrotto Modosteady knockoff.
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The Smoothee appears to have the same gimbal as the Merlin, which puts it much closer to the Merlin than the Modo which has that terrible ball-socket joint that offers no real isolation.

Smoothee is also made of metal, so it should be pretty ridged.

- Mikko
 
hoarp001 said:
The lens on the iPhone thing is fine, some guy is just holding a lens up to an iphone with some gaffa tape, no real effort required.

Tiffen however have spent however much on moulds, tooling, research etc etc, and for what? Holding a lens up to an iphone is a bit of a fun gimmick (just like the smoothee) but it costs nothing.
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Wouldn't every lens you put on the iPhone be much more telephoto than it actually is? Sort of like when the same lens is put on a 2/3, 1/3, and full sized sensor?
 
GottaBeTheJuice said:
Wouldn't every lens you put on the iPhone be much more telephoto than it actually is? Sort of like when the same lens is put on a 2/3, 1/3, and full sized sensor?
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The smaller the sensor, the narrower the field of view (if the focal length stays constant). The iphone has a very small sensor, if you could mount a lens on it, it would have to have a very short focal length in order to give you a "normal" fov.
 
Its slightly differnt here, we can't take the iPhones lens out and project directly onto its sensor, the iphones own lens is looking through the lens, so its just having a magnification effect, its not really projecting the light onto a sensor like it would usually do...
 
hoarp001 said:
Its slightly differnt here, we can't take the iPhones lens out and project directly onto its sensor, the iphones own lens is looking through the lens, so its just having a magnification effect, its not really projecting the light onto a sensor like it would usually do...
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You need to understand just how the images get processed in an iPhone...

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hoarp001 said:
Its slightly differnt here, we can't take the iPhones lens out and project directly onto its sensor, the iphones own lens is looking through the lens, so its just having a magnification effect, its not really projecting the light onto a sensor like it would usually do...
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Yeah sure, that's what I meant with "if you could mount a lens on it"... Since we already have a steadicam for the Iphone, I wonder how long it will take for somebody to add a lens mount to the iphone.... :Drogar-BigGrin(DBG)
 
Garrett Brown's only known attempt to mount an iPhone to a Steadicam.

Apparently Tiffen misheard sue me to be Smoothee, an easy mistake to make.

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So that's a 3Gs on a G50? ... :)



Back at IBC 2004 we (Garrett, some other operators, and myself) joked about putting a cellphone on a full size Steadicam.

- Mikko
 
There's actually a lot of serious films that used Flip Minos for B-roll footage. The Smoothie is perfect for the Flip -- I'm gonna buy one! ;-)
 
i've had some quality results using this. the movable arms and legs act like counterweights. it's like the camera is practically floating in my hands.

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