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Found Footage: Inexpensive do-it-yourself tripod mount for iPhone


iPhone Savior featured this short video clip this morning by Scott Patrick showing how to use an inexpensive Contour iPhone case and some common hardware to make an iPhone tripod mount.

There are two impressive points about this mount; first, by using the Contour case, you know that the iPhone is going to be held securely (my wife used one for over a year and never had it inadvertently open up), and second, Scott made it so it will work with any standard tripod camera mount head.

With the tripod Scott is using, it would be simple to flip the camera 90° to put it into a landscape configuration. This should work well for both still photography with any iPhone or video work with the iPhone 3GS.

[Thanks to TUAW reader Michael for pointing us to this video]

iPhone Savior featured this short video clip this morning by Scott Patrick showing how to use an inexpensive Contour iPhone case and some...
 

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airmanchairman

I've got a PED3 iPhone fixed rotating stand and a Naja King flexible rotating stand, and I reckon they would be just perfect for this purpose as well:

The PED3 could easily be held in the hand (at the wide base or even further up) and keep the phone real steady; the Naja King even better as it would give you more variable height and position and allow it to stand free.

I would imagine the Pivotal Podium stand, with its even more flexible ball joint would give greater freedom of rotation than the PED3 but probably not as good as the Naja King in terms of overall flexibility of height and position.

It would also be eminently easier to attach these stands to a professional, semi-professional or D.I.Y. tripod stand without physically affecting the iPhone in any way.

July 04 2009 at 11:32 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
grifmusic

best solution yet! nearly free and ultra portable!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fLHu79ZCt4

July 03 2009 at 3:47 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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grifmusic

Whoops, pasted wrong video! sorry. Here's the BEST solution!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNJaI5omq_0

July 03 2009 at 3:52 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
rex

this video is in reply to this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyT-Z0WvPYE

the guy in the video is patrick

he says hey scott.... patrick here!

June 30 2009 at 11:34 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
rex

this video was not made for scott patrick .... its patrick and he made the video for scott jordan... the owner of scottevest who on a daily basis goes on hikes and bike rides and walks while streaming live on his site. he also streams live all day from his office with a show called scott tv business from the inside out.
you can find more info about scott and his many inventions/camera mounts at scottevest.com

June 30 2009 at 11:29 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Nate

I have the Contour Showcase on my 3G... it really is the BEST case for the iPhone... That's the benefit of being both soft and hard at the same time!

June 30 2009 at 9:48 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
exnewt

I prefer this iPhone tripod mount...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/opusmark/sets/72157611264211206/

June 30 2009 at 7:10 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Scott

Big deal. I'd like to see a rotating joint for landscape.

June 30 2009 at 7:07 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Tom Lopy

The Iphone still has no ability to really take photography with a quality high enough to be considered enjoyable.
Maybe for a drunken memory or something.
[link removed] is actually able to send audiobooks to the Iphone.

June 30 2009 at 2:59 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
rob

Now we're just missing the self timer in the camera app...

June 30 2009 at 2:01 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Daniel Brusilovsky

The problem with this is it requires drilling into a specific case. There needs to be a better solution, even though this is great.

June 30 2009 at 1:54 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Panda

Theoretically, this would work with just about any hard case

June 30 2009 at 2:02 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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