Teleprompter, MOMAN Teleprompters with Tripod for DSLR Camera Recording with 70/30 Beam Split Glass & Teleprompter for Remote Control

Somehow all these years I never got around to genuinely needing a teleprompter, mostly because I’ve preferred interview-driven and verité documentary style, compared to the presence and delivery of a scripted “host.” But every once in a great while, I’m helping someone make a pitch video – or, I reach a dead end after too many takes, and resign to just have someone read lines.There are very industrial ways to do this sort of thing: the most expensive and time-consuming, is to hire a dedicated person who writes out and holds up physical cue cards from a giant stack! (My favorite: Tony Mendez on the David Letterman show years ago.) Next comes something in the thousands of dollars that has a dedicated playback system and a very large overlay, designed for television studios. But here we are in 2021 with more choices than ever, and if you’re like me – needing something that gets you by, without getting fancy – there are tons of inexpensive options. The one I’m looking at today is the Moman MT2 teleprompter for tablets and smartphones.This Moman teleprompter product is a great compromise for budget videographers. Since most everyone has a tablet besides their smartphone, it’s a no-brainer to go for this bigger size. Narrowing down some more, if the whole rig can be lightweight anyway, there’s no point in having a complex rigging system with rails and brackets to mount everything onto your camera – so, you want something that easily and quickly just hooks onto your camera lens. This includes adapter rings ranging from 49mm to 77mm to screw into those filter threads on the front of most lenses. Then, a bracket on the back of the teleprompter body just slides onto that adapter ring, and you need to rotate it until level. It doesn’t solidly lock into position, but this isn’t an industrial product either.I’m pairing this with a 35mm lens, which is a pretty good match: you’ll want a focal length that’s not too wide, not too long. But you’ll be able to make further adjustments. Using the tablet (and smartphone) tray sticking out the front, you’re able to adjust the height of the display surface pointing up, which in turn “zooms” in and out to fill the reflecting surface just right. That mechanism, however, is the biggest flaw: the tray is secured by just a single thumbscrew, and the whole tablet/smartphone easily rotates out of position over the course of any session. Moman should have designed the holder with two mounting points so that it’s forced to stay parallel with the teleprompter.But what really matters, of course, is the ultimate video quality. I was surprised to find it being hardly degraded, under the right lighting conditions. Sure, as with any bare lens in general, if there are angles of light pollution hitting the intermediate reflector in a wrong way, you can get glares/reflections. But in a studio setting where you’d almost always shoot teleprompted scenes, that’s always manageable (less so, outdoors).Speaking of, if you’re really shooting on the cheap and want to use a smartphone camera as the actual filming device, there is an adjustable top mounting point, and side mounting point, for an included bracket that pairs with various foam mattes to get the smartphone camera lens sealed up to the rear hole for minimal light leaks/pollution.The kit comes with a mini-tripod, and a nice big drawstring bag, boxed up for retail/shipment. All told, for under a hundred bucks, this does the trick.

The only problem I've had with this is getting the phone to stay where it's supposed to on the back. The clamp that holds it in landscape orientation is too far away from the lens window, so the phone is held by a single point that refuses to keep it steady. I had to add an extra support on the back to help brace up the weight of the phone. A smaller/normal sized phone wouldn't fit at all in this set up because the clamp wouldn't reach that far.But once I got that worked out, it's been a really handy tool!

This teleprompter fits my daughters ipad 9th generation perfectly. Her instructor recommended she purchased one of these. We are very happy with its abilities.The text is clear and very bold; Making it easy to read from great distances. As far as 10 feet!The tripod is sturdy and easy to adjust too.the whole machine feels and looks high-quality~ it came beautifully packaged as well.The remote is simplistic and easy to use. You can stop, pause, slow down and speed up at any time during your presentation. It’s been an awesome tool for her class participation grade.It’s lightweight and durable~ holding up nicely while taking it back-and-forth from home and school.There is also a free app to download allowing you to reverse text from your electronic devices. It’s very user-friendly.Well worth the money!

First, you have to figure out how to assemble it and the instructions are about useless if you've never used a teleprompter previously. For example, they give you no clue about how to properly install the glass - you have to figure out that the little piece of unidentified plastic is there to hold the glass in position.Then - you put an ipad on it and guess what? It overbalances the tripod and camera, they fall over. There goes your camera and ipad. So you're stuck using a phone, making the print too small for comfortable reading. The tripod is too short to really be useful in any circumstance but sitting - so no stand up production.The rings do fit the cameral lens properly, but I was hoping to use my video camera with a wide angle lens rather than my DSLR. The rings do NOT fit my videocam lenses and I don't see any options to deal with that, so that's out.I haven't even TRIED using it yet and already I dislike it. I purchased this unit for a particular project, and I'm going to try it this weekend, but on Monday, it goes away and I'll purchase a better built unit that meets my needs.At its price point, it's fine for teenagers but I should have gone with my first instinct and spent a few more bucks on a better product.So, I tried using it with a better tripod. It almost worked. Except the weight of an iPad is enough to force the retaining ring out of the lens, causing the entire unit to fall over. I managed to catch my iPad before it hit the floor.This will be returned to Amazon in the morning. I've already ordered a more expensive and better built unit.

The media could not be loaded. This teleprinter is really easy to use, ideal for camera with lenses up to 82 mm, it came with the app that you can create you script and play I manually or use the remote control, you have options to modify speed , color, size etc. Also came wit adapter for iPad or cell phone and all the accessories to set the camera in. I think is very good option and good price.

Great product