OWLE IPhone 3GS Video Mount Is As Practical As It Can Be

@yelraf: I don't get "I don't get comments". No one cares. If you don't get it, move one. Someone else will.

takeshi

@dsh: The mind boggles even more to see that people buy it.

twilight-arc

Hot shoe, external trigger, and a good lense to compliment the anemic internal lens they put in these phones, big grips, but does it have a hardpoint for tripod mounting? If so, then it's a keeper.

They are calling their first model Bubo, on that, if I had a 3GS, I'd be glomming onto one.

Nighthawke

Actually...we have been arguing for this approach for the past 10 years!!! Even when some of us were working at Kodak, we argued for a REPLACEABLE sensor approach to camera design.

Why make the user buy a completely new camera just to get higher resolution??? This is like making a camera which will only take 25 ASA film, then have to buy a new one for 200 ASA film. CRAZY!!!

With a mount like this, IF Apple comes out with an iPod with a higher rez sensor (assuming the form factor stays the same), then all the user has to do is to pop in the new unit. It's a nice dream :-)

Zacuto makes really good stuff actually...they're insanely over priced, but the products are a joy to use..I'd never buy one though. They take it to like 100...I can get to 80 using DIY methods.

TheCrudMan

These iPhone attachments are starting to remind me of Rube Goldberg machines. They all accomplish a task but increasingly seem to be the most inefficient way to get something done.

Xeno

@LPAkira: Oh, make no mistake...there will be iPhone film festivals. I predict the first winner will be a documentary on Burning Man.

@Ehrich Blackhound: Meh, gotta pay da bills.

@matthorn: +1!

@bornonbord:

But of course.

matthorn

@Scaramanga: Which is all well and good except it loses the key advantage of iPhone video: instant distribution.

Reminds me of that part in Ronin where Sean Bean says

Okay. lf we're gonna do it, let's do the goddamn thing right.

The problem with iPhone lens mounts is that it really only degrades image quality. For a lens, quality is determined by each subsequent piece of glass, in the case of the iPhone, the original lens can't be replaced. You're actually reducing the amount of light that hits the sensor unlike a normal camera that have interchangeable lenses.

For a little over a hundred bucks these days, cheaper then an iPhone, cheaper then this odd mount, you can buy a HD Flip, Toshiba Camileo S10 pocketcam, or Sony Webbie that can shoot 1080p video.

Scaramanga

@matthorn: SNL?
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I'm taking bets on (a) when the first helmet mount for the iPhone 3GS makes it to Gizmodo and (b) when the video of someone smashing their helmet-mounted iPhone 3GS while crashing makes it to Gizmodo.

If only apple would put a 1/4-20 tripod mount on the bottom of the iphone. . . all this wouldn't be necessary and you could just screw a weight to the bottom for image stabilization. or YOU COULD JUST BUY A FREAKING VIDEO CAMERA! its a phone! its supposed to take shaky video. if you want to carry around accessory crap like this just get a camera, seriously.

DixonCyparissus

@bornonbord: well played. ROFL.

I think I get it now, the iphone finally gets a video camera (out of the box) and people think it's the next HD-centric device. Love the phone, but talk about unnecessary attachments. Serious video people probably have a serious-ish camera by now.

Adrian Diaz

I just don't get iPhone video mounts. At all. I mean, it's a cameraphone for God's sake. A passable camera phone, yes, but hardly good enough quality to make home movies. Who uses a stabilizer to make home movies?

If people are using their iPhones to make real films, they need to stop.

LPAkira

@TheyCallMeStacey_GitEmSteveDave:
Batman: One: "What has yellow skin and writes?"
Robin: A ballpoint banana.
Batman: Exactly! Two: "What people are always in a hurry?"
Robin: Rushing people? Russians!
Batman: Right again! Now, what would you say they mean?
Robin: Banana... Russian... I've got it! Someone Russian is gonna slip on a banana peel and break their neck!
Batman: Precisely, Robin! The only possible meaning!

Holy iPhone-3GS-Video-Mount Batman!

"...But we didnt stops there... next we wrapped an OWLE enclosed iphone in a fully functional laptop... then we wrapped THAT in tufBook case, THEN we place the whole thing into a plastic Mac Quadra destop, wrapped it in another layer photosentive material, then...."

matthorn

It's a good thing they haven't put it into regular production yet, because they seriously need to give it a better shape.

I hate rounded technology...

@TheyCallMeStacey_GitEmSteveDave: OMG! I was just ready to comment on the shape with the batman sign- you beat me to it. U haxor!

That video just BETTER be good.

Metal Gear iPhone 3GS?

seriously.......lol just look at that thang.

I forsee this being used in the next Batman movie. Does it come with a utility belt?

OWLE crap that thing is crazy! (See what I did there...bad, I know.)

Completely O.T., anyone else being driven crazy by the flying Palm Pre ad on here?

Can't wait for official pricing on this rig and the App store's acceptance of the Qik app. My shaky cam videos are startin' to get ridiculous.

jaredgibbs

The mind, it boggles for products like this.

It really does.

Bokusatsu_Tenshi