Quote from: mediabaron on September 17, 2012, 11:20:10 PM
I bought a Marshall Mini ballhead http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000CNPK3M/ref=oh_details_o05_s00_i01 so I could mount my iPhone onto my hotshoe of my Canon 60D/7D so I can do live video via Ustream while shooting video with the HDSLR. The problem with the set-up is that the phone weighs quite a bit and you really have to tighten down the tiny ballhead control to prevent any unwanted movement. Granted I was moving around and not shooting on a tripod so things tended to go with gravity.
My set-up was:
- Canon 60D
- hotshoe extension to allow more than 1 coldshoe device
- Left: Marshall mini ballhead with iPhone mount & iPhone 4 Right: Rode VideoMic on right.
This was a lot of top-heavy weight. If I was shooting on a tripod without quick movement it would probably be okay but with 4 swivel points (extension-hotshoe foot, bottom of mini-ballhead, ballhead itself, iPhone mount to ballhead) it's easy to get wonky. The iPhone mount to ballhead shouldn't be a swivel point but gets to be that way unless you really tighten things down.
I may do another shoot this week with the set-up on a tripod.
How do you mount a device to this that does not have the screw mount on the bottom? Most LCD field monitors have these, but alas tablets do not. In the perfect world, the mount would be adjustable and could fit my Galaxy S3 and my 7" Tablet.
Thanks for the reply.