g'day guys in this video i'm going to have a look at Lensgo's teleprompter I'll actually open the
box up get a look inside see what sort of parts you get with it because it feels fairly weighty
have a look at the glass that they actually have for the beam splitting glass and also
have a look and see how your camera attaches to it because apparently you can fit a dslr camera
onto this device as well it's got me curious because it only has a fixing on the bottom
for your tripod and that means to say your dslr camera would be hanging off the back of
it and enough said let's have a look at what you get in the box the foldable teleprompter
comes with a beam splitting glass already fitted inside and they've also included an
array of metal adapter rings now this will suit most dslr cameras and there's a foam light shield
and they've also included a variety of fitted light shades i found everything i needed in those
instructions to put it all together and they've included a Bluetooth start stop fob and this
goes along with that free teleprompter app also a mobile phone clamp to mount your mobile phone
so I've set up the teleprompter on just a little baby tripod here for the experiment and to just
illustrate how to set it up and it's all opened up the little ipad's just sitting there on that
sticky pad so it won't slip off it's actually pretty good it won't come off at all which is good
and in the instructions it highlights that you have to use the 62 millimeter ring and
once you've selected that 62 millimeter ring you use this little rubber surround and stick that
onto that 62 mil ring for your mobile phone so i'll do that now
and on the back i just slip that in there like that and it locks in these two little latches on
the bottom you hold it nicely so there we have the rings sitting in you've got a nice rubber surface
for the camera to go against so it'll screen out any light from coming in from the sides
on the back of the device you've got these little threaded holes and there's a little square
receiving like a key to stop the device moving around locks into place so this has a little
square end on it as well so it'll go into there that is the way you set it up if you want it in
portrait mode but i'm going to set it up in landscape because i'm using my iphone i'm going to
select the little square lights around i'm going to place that inside there
and my mobile phone is going to cover that so the idea is to make sure that you can
get your mobile phone lined up with that so with that little thread on the back there
just slightly loose you're able to move your phone up and down to align it
loosen it off a touch slide down the holder and i'll move my phone across so it lines nicely
so now let me just check and see how stable that is yeah yeah that's okay i've had to
lower the phone grip right down to the bottom and i've used the correct screens the the
light screens here now something i've noticed is that the the little hood that's on the top here
is visible in the screen so even though i've got this mobile phone set
as low as i possibly can it's still visible you can see as i lift that hood up it actually hops
out of shot so that's something you're going to have to be a little bit careful of the only way i
can get rid of it is to zoom slightly to about 1.2 1.2 times digital zoom on the standard lens now
your phone might be a little bit different to that okay mine might particularly be a little bit wider
on two times zoom or using the other lens it's fine it seems to look really good it seems to
hold very well there's no problem with the camera falling off and as lens go have advertised it does
fold in one second but that's all it does it just folds up bang you could do that with a wooden box
couldn't you i'm going to endeavour to set up my sony rx10 on the back of the teleprompter it's
it's fairly weighty but it hasn't got a long lens on it and you can always work out the size of the
ring lens ring you need because if you look carefully on the end of this carl zeiss lens it's
actually says 62 millimeter and you just match up the correct ring then on the back here see if i
can fit it on without having to remove that mobile phone mount now it looks like i can mount it on
and there we have it little clips are in place holding it so it doesn't fall off
now let me just have a feel of that take it off the mount actually that feels very balanced
so that size camera might be okay on top of there
see i i wouldn't recommend mounting a heavy camera on the back here on the end of the lens because
the manufacturers of camera lenses certainly didn't design
the camera to be mounted on the end if there was a little bit of support here or something that might
be different so maybe lens go can consider that in the future maybe a bracket that connects on
to these mounting points on the back here could come out and take a little bit of weight of that
camera that would make it really good so i'm going to give the teleprompter a try outside to see how
it performs in the high level light my ipad is set to high intensity so it's as the brightness is as
high as it can go but the yellow writing is very very clear against the black background so i'll
just start it up let's uh use the little trigger to start stop the text and we'll see how we go
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well that's really easy now one thing i like about the little application that comes with
it is that you can move the text forward and back in steps like in paragraphs or you can start stop
with that little button even though there's a lot of shine out here from the on the surface of the
ipad coming up onto the glass back to the camera i can still see that text really really clearly
now with beam splitting glass it's a little bit different to standard glass you're actually
getting a reflection off the face instead of the back of the glass so you're not getting
any double images it's as clean as anything much better than the one i've been using i
actually made a teleprompter from like creating a little box and i put a sheet of glass in it
and you do see double image using standard glass but with beam splitting glass you don't get that
double image from the face and the back of the pane of glass it's just off that front surface
so that's really impressive i like that the teleprompter is pretty good value for money
considering you get all the parts in the box but i'm not real sure that i want to use it for
my dslr camera because by by the time you get the the device set up your ipad or your tablet
sitting on top of it that can be all hanging off the front of your camera and i don't think
that's a very good idea but anyway excellent for mobile phones and things like that and i think
primarily that's what lens go had in mind when they were designing this unless you can support
your camera in some other way instead of just hanging the camera off the back so if you've got
any questions about lens goes teleprompter or any other questions about the audio gear you're using
make sure you put it in the comments section i read them all and i try and get back as soon as
i possibly can to reply to them until next time please stay safe i'll catch you later