Only a few days after I ordered myself a lightweight, table-top tripod from Hong Kong to capture video reviews with my new iPhone 3GS, videophile Eddie Breen, burst onto the scene with a simple tripod mount mod made from a Bracketron Dock-It cupholder mount kit. Breen became obsessed with creating a real tripod solution for his iPhone 3GS that would match his "exceedingly high photographic expectations."
Carving out the plastic tripod screw from a broken Nikon Coolpix he had lying around, Breen attached it in a crude but workable fashion to the baseplate of his Bracketron dock. The results of his do-it-yourself franken-pod mount are impressive, requiring no modding to the phone's body at all.
"Maybe someone already offers this tripod mount for sale somewhere - I don’t know." Breen wrote on his blog, "I did an exhaustive search for about an hour, and couldn’t find anything, so I just made one myself."
Though Eddie's modification may be glorious overkill for an iPhone mount, the idea is still slick and useful, providing ample shock absorption should he decide to produce a high-impact, action thriller video for YouTube.
Until my epic iPhone steady-cam mount is finished, I'll stick with the table-top tripod I bought on Ebay for $2.99. Check out the entire do-it-yourself process on Eddie's blog.
Wouldn't a $0.07 1/4-20 hex nut from his hardware store been just as good as trashing a Nikon? He probably could have sold the dead camera for more than 7 cents on ebay.
Posted by: hardwarestorejim | June 25, 2009 at 09:01 PM
Being so light, it would seem that a "steady-cam" for iPhone could be made with a small battery powered hobbyist gyroscope! That should be super-steady... Add a bit of flexible "goose neck" tubing, epoxied to an iPhone cover...
Posted by: Steve Bush | June 27, 2009 at 03:47 PM
Just announced -
A rotating iPhone tripod mount and holder
(versions are available for iPhones with or without a case/skin) -
http://thoughtout.biz/node/41
For FREE, proven, home-brew steady-cam plans and/or a kit -
http://steadycam.org
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