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

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.

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!

Because there is no way to adjust the angle of the reflection, apparently you have to hope you can see enough of the screen? If you think you need a teleprompter, maybe you need one with the soft hood, so you can adjust the angle of the hood so you can actually see the words. On the bright side, the remote eats batteries, and the app seem to have a usable range of speed on the slider about 2 microns wide. Your speed choices are “way too fast” “slightly too fast”, and “not fast enough. So you will need to spend $18 on an app that listens to you speak. So count on spending twice as much as this costs, and throw another 20 at it as well… or just buy an iPad holder and put it on a tripod next to your camera and spend 20 on the app.

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 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!

Although I'm generally pleased with this purchase, it works precisely as described and as needed, I have to address certain issues I have which I feel others should know before making a purchase decision. The teleprompter itself I have no issues with. The construction, although almost entirely plastic, is sturdy and solid enough that I feel confident of it's durability, so long as I don't abuse it or bash it about. The mini tripod stand for use with a mobile phone is a very nice touch and has a nice solid feel to it. I can certainly see that accessory being of value to people who regularly vlog by means of a mobile phone or small, lightweight vlogging camera, although you certainly wouldn't expect this to hold a mirrorless or DSLR without falling over.I like that if you're using a mirrorless or DSLR that the camera is attached to the unit by means of a metal ring that screws into the filter mount on your camera lens. So long as you have your camera on a proper tripod you will have no issues with the whole assembly falling over, even if using a tablet as the device for projection onto the screen. This does, of course, mean that your lens is bearing the weight of the unit and mobile or tablet, but the unit itself is quite lightweight.My issue, then, is with the software. The instructions direct you to download the teleprompter app from the Google Play store, where you very soon find it isn't actually available there. Further scrutiny of the instructions reveals you need to go to their website to download the APK file for installation. Basically, you have to sideload the teleprompter app, which is never a good sign and not very secure either. Having taken the plunge and side loaded the software, I felt some aspects were lacking, especially the remore control feature. Getting the app to find and pair with the remote almost becomes an exercise in divine faith. On the occasions where I HAVE got the remore to connect it works well enough, but it's certainly not the one-click connect option that it SHOULD be for a Bluetooth device. I would advise looking at other app options that ARE available from the Google Store. Elegant Prompter is a good free option, but, alas, you forego the option of using the remote control. I've not yet looked at paid options to see if the remote works with third party apps.So in all I'm happy with my purchase, I just feel the prompter app is sadly lacking, you shouldn't be having to sideload an app for something in this price range, and getting the remote to actually work is way more arduous than it should be...

• Pros:- Telepromter Has a robust design - I'm quite sure it wont brake in a few months- Lots of addons (even though, I dont know where to use them :)- Tripod looks also robust (compared with cheap stuff I had before)- If used with a smartphone - does the job very well (unfortunately, not with a tablet)• Cons:- Biggest con, is that if I use a tablet (the reason i took this model) - large part of corner of the table is visible when I'm filming. I'll have to think about manualy customising this device.- Tripod is more for holding the phone. I would have to be very careful to use it with telepromter + tablet, as tablets size and weight, doesnt let the whole "construction" be very stable. (need to buy separate robust tripod for teleprompter).P.S. When mentioning tablet - I have used Amazon Fire HD 10 (10.1 inch)Havent used the remote, as dont see it usefull. Maybe in a separate usecase, as a remote clicker during the presentations.If I could go back in time, would suggest myself to add additional 50-70Eur and choose something more professional and better fit with a tablet.

This product should be great - COULD be great - but is, in fact, almost unusable.1) The instructions are terrible and, in some cases, just wrong. There's a little rattling around in the box that you have to use to clip the glass into place....2) The little clip broke - one of the legs came off. Not impressive.3) Getting the remote to pair with a phone is tricky. You have to make sure that you unpair it, then pair it via the Moman app every time... tedious. It took me quite a bit of trial and error to figure out.4) THIS IS THE BIGGIE: the remote stops working half way through recording more often than not. It's a total faff to reconnect. This involves restarting the remote, opening blue-tooth on your phone (but not connecting), going to the app and connecting... and even then, it only connects half the time... and then stops randomly - again! - while you're recording. THIS MAKES THE PRODUCT ALMOST UNUSABLE.5) The app doesn't work well on older tablets. I have a 5 year old Galaxy Tab A (quite high-end when new). It runs the app, but crashes every time I try to turn the text through 90 degrees (so you can actually read it).Once everything is set up, the remote works well (lets you speed up / slow down / go back which helps you stay in the right place - great!), the teleprompter does what it should. In fact, it makes recording video way easier.... BUT it will simply stop working mid-recording which is infuriating.This is a 1 star product that could easily be 5 star product if they just sorted out these few (easy to fix?) niggles.

Dieser Teleprompter ist sehr gut, ABER die Fernbedienung eher eine Katastrophe, sie ist viel zu laut, jedes Klicken hat man auf den Aufnahmen ein NO Go.

I bought this product to help the presenter of short form video content get through his lines. It's perfect.It's very easy to set up and took less than 20 minutes and linked up with my tablet (Lenovo m10) with no hassle at all.I was worried that it may be too heavy and damage the lens on my camera but it's pretty light and causes no problemsIt works perfectly, if you're looking for a teleprompter I can personally recommend this one.