Tripod Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

My cheap, simple livestreaming rig: iPhone, Ustream, Zagg and Clingo

by Michael Rose (Sep 26th, 2012)

The challenge: On short notice, I was asked to stream holiday services from my wife's synagogue so that homebound congregants and college students could attend at a distance. "Sure," I said, before I really thought it through. My preferred setup for a reliable video stream would include a ...

Photojojo provides a convenient telephoto lens for iPhone

by Michael Gray (Feb 14th, 2011)

The iPhone makes a great at-the-ready camera. Those of us appropriately sidearmed with an iPhone usually keep it easy to grab, which makes it the perfect device to yank from our pocket and snap a few pictures. And while the digital zoom is an awesome feature, it has limitations, and usually ends up ...

iPhone photographers, get your Glif on with new tripod mount

by Michael Rose (Nov 27th, 2010)

It's a local-boys-make-good story for the Internet age: two New Yorkers brainstorm an idea for the kind of iPhone 4 tripod mount/stand they'd want to buy. They put their design on Kickstarter with the intention of raising US$10,000 in ramp-up funding. With a snazzy prototype video and the attention ...

Gorillamobile revised for iPhone 4

by David Quilty (Nov 11th, 2010)

The other day I was editing some very shaky video taken with an iPhone 4, and I suggested that the owner pick up a tripod -- so this is pretty good timing. Made just for the iPhone 4, JOBY designed the new Gorillamobile with an included bumper case (which stays on your iPhone) that slides into a ...

Adding a Carl Zeiss SLR lens to your iPhone 4

by Steven Sande (Jul 8th, 2010)

If the 5x digital zoom on the iPhone 4's 5 MP digital camera doesn't make your heart pound with joy, maybe you should dig out some of those lenses from the SLR film camera that you're not using anymore and use 'em with your iPhone. We're not sure of the source of this Franken-cam, but it looks ...

TUAW Review and giveaway: Blur Tripod and app for iPhone

by Steven Sande (Nov 9th, 2009)

Way back in September, we announced that Mobile Mechatronics was going to be selling a combination of a tiny tripod and an iPhone app called Blur. The idea behind this combo is that the tripod can hold your iPhone more steadily than your hand can, and then the software can assist you by either ...

iPhone photo news: tripods and water drop lenses

by Steven Sande (Sep 16th, 2009)

The iPhone has made photography fun for me again. I frankly hated the cameras I had in some of my other, older phones, and I don't like carrying around my big Canon digicam all the time, so having a fairly capable camera in my pocket has opened up my photo-taking horizons again. When I got the 3GS ...

ZGrip iPhone Jr. available August 15th

by Steven Sande (Aug 13th, 2009)

Dave Caolo tempted TUAW readers in early July with news about Zacuto's ZGrip iPhone Pro, a handy (no pun intended) articulated grip for taking steadier video with the iPhone 3GS. While the US$295 price tag was a bit out of the realm of possibility for all but well-heeled iPhone geeks, there was a ...

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

by Steven Sande (Jun 30th, 2009)

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 ...