3 Tablet Teleprompters for Any Budget
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Do you want to improve the quality and viewability of your vlogs, podcasts, and YouTube videos? Using a teleprompter will provide you with videography gear and techniques that can help you out. We found 3 of the best teleprompters for any budget.
Whenever I am looking for new, upgraded, or needed videography gear, such as teleprompters for YouTube videos, I pull up Ikan Corp first or at least early in my search.
Ikan products are made, designed, or procured by people who are videographers themselves, so the items are always useful and high quality. Since they design and make much of the videography gear themselves, we can find high quality equipment at much lower prices than similar items from other brands.
Budget Option
The Ikan PT-TAB Above-the-Lens Universal Tablet Teleprompter is an ideal beginner’s choice of teleprompters for any budget since it costs about the same as a high capacity memory card for your camera or a similar flash drive.
It holds a tablet or large smartphone, being adjustable from 5x7.5 inches to 9X13 inches, so most Android or Fire tablets and most iPads will fit just fine. The specs say it’ll hold 7 inch to 12 inch tablets, but it goes both a little bit smaller and larger than that.
The PT-TAB mounts onto the 15mm rods that either come with or fit into a camera cage or other videography gear such as specialty dove-tail mounts. If you aren’t already using a camera cage yet, take a look at the advantages of having a camera cage for your DSLR or mirrorless camera.
There are apps available for tablets that enable you to easily scroll through the script or outline you’re using for your vlogging presentations. Some let you scroll manually, others use an automatic crawl with you setting the speed ahead of time.
Mid-range Option
An all around top buy and a great mid-ranged price option is the Ikan PT-Elite-LS Universal Tablet & iPad Teleprompter for Light Stands that requires no camera cage since it mounts on a light stand.
For some users who don’t already have or aren’t planning on getting a camera cage, this actually becomes a better choice for them as a budget option. It’s priced at about the same or a little lower than the budget model PT-TAB plus a camera cage or around the same price as a 32GB Apple iPad 8 which can still be found brand new online.
Being able to fit it onto a light stand is a nice option for many vloggers setting up in their home studio or on location with the DSLR or mirrorless camera they regularly use for both still photography and video.
The construction of glass, aluminum, and vinyl allows for easy reading and great viewability in a wide variety of ambient lighting conditions. Compatible with tablets from 6x9 inches to 9x13 inches.
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Professional Option
A professional solution for larger cameras is the Ikan PT-Elite-Pro2 TK Teleprompter Travel Kit with Rolling Hard Case which costs about double the mid-priced option above or around the same price range as an Apple iPhone X.
It’s superbly designed, completely adjustable, and will accommodate cameras from lightweight mirrorless crop format cameras to Full Frame DSLRs and even larger camcorders. Made from aircraft aluminum, this mounts directly to a video tripod head and includes a rolling hard shell case for easy transportation.
The PT-Elite-Pro2 will work with tablets as large as an iPad Pro but is still light enough to be used on a smaller video tripod or any other of tripod you might be using.
Why Use a Teleprompter?
Our main reason for recommending teleprompters for YouTube videos and other vlogs or podcasts is to provide your viewers with eye contact which tends to make people very comfortable when viewing your videos.
The number one method for maintaining eye contact with a remote audience is to create a script or a script outline and read it through a teleprompter so that it appears that you are looking straight into the lens. This is how newscasters seem to be talking directly to you without ever looking down at notes.
Since there are teleprompters for any budget, your videos can also benefit from the advantages of using a teleprompter.
