Review on 📱 Glide Gear TMP 50: A Versatile 10" Smartphone Mini Tripod Teleprompter for Enhanced Video Production by Shah Moser

The Glide Gear TMP50 is a good teleprompter solution for single video recordings. The TMP50 is intended as an original teleprompter display only for smartphones and small tablets. I found the teleprompter text size on a large smartphone to be quite satisfactory for my setup with a Sony ZV-1 camera. You should test your camcorder and settings beforehand. (i.e. can you easily read teleprompter text on your smartphone or small tablet at your camera distance and with the crop you want?) The TMP50 works great with the Google Pixel 2 XL smartphone with its 6.0-inch (152mm) screen as prompt source text. It also works with the Google Pixel 4a smartphone with its 5.8 inch (148mm) screen as a prompter text source. The TMP50 offers easy installation and access to your smartphone, including cable access and buttons on the side and back of the phone. The smartphone can also be easily removed and replaced to set up more complex operations such as navigating the application menu. TMP50 does not work with 9.7 inch (250mm) iPad. The iPad fits in the Glide Gear TMP50 support mount, but the reflective surface is not large enough to reflect the width of the iPad screen - see photo. For use with a 9.7 inch iPad you will need a larger teleprompter such as the TMP100. I use the TMP50 with a Sony ZV-1 camera. I found it necessary to use a bracket to mount the camera centrally behind the teleprompter using the TMP50's front-to-back mounting slot. I use the excellent UURig base mount (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/ B08FHV5GZL) which offers 1/4-20 mounting holes aligned with the optical axis. (Smallrig makes a similar product that should work.) Camera centering is critical for the camera to function at full wide angle without vignetting or interference from the teleprompter and its cloth case. The ZV-1 cannot be centered in the TMP50 using the built in ZV-1 1/4-20 off-axis hole. If the camera is mounted off-center, it should be mounted at an angle of approximately 15 degrees to the central axis of the teleprompter to avoid vignetting or interference from the teleprompter and its full-angle cloth housing. I don't know how well this will work with the teleprompter effect. In addition to the front-to-back mounting slot, the TMP50 features a left-right mounting slot for adjusting smartphone camera centering. But the slit is too close to the half-mirror glass for use with the SG-1 (and probably most other cameras). (The ZV-1's lens will collide with the teleprompter's glass when mounted in the left-right slot.) The ZV-1's screen cannot be rotated to view the frame when mounted behind the teleprompter. If you try to display it via a teleprompter, the teleprompter's half-mirror effect will disappear, rendering your original text unreadable. But Sony offers Imaging Edge control apps for smartphones and computers. They allow you to control your ZV-1 frame on a computer, smartphone or tablet. (Of course, you cannot use the same smartphone that you use as the teleprompter source.) This teleprompter does not come with the teleprompter text app. I use the PromptSmart app. It works pretty well, tracking your voice to follow your script, or you can control scrolling with the PromptSmart remote app on a second smartphone running the same OS as the PromptSmart app.