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hey welcome back to pocket filemaker this week we're looking at stabilization devices so things we can put onto our pocket camera to help keep those shots nice and smooth now one of our challenges in shooting with a smartphone is that of stability now if I hold off my iPhone I usually hold it this far away so I can see the screen and what happens is my arm acts like a huge lever so every vibration that goes through my body gets picked up along my arm and amplified by the timer gets the camera which means that that shot is not always as steady as what it could be I'm going to start off with if we have to find a way to fix our smartphone to a stabilization device now this one here is called a sidekick it's also named a glyph where you can slide your iPhone here into this little cradle keeps it nice and steady underneath here you have a little conventional tripod screw there so you can fix it to a number of different devices for just a couple of dollars you can buy one of these online okay now these come in all different shapes and sizes but they're essentially just a fixed arm little tripod they're great for mounting on table surfaces they're easy to keep in your pocket on your bag and they help keep your shots nice and steady now all the mini tripods one of my favorites would have to be this the gorilla pod these are fantastic and really versatile because they have these little flexible legs and they're rubberized so they grip onto anything you can wrap them around a tree branch I've used them on the railings of staircases and they can hold your camera nice and steady another one of my favorite devices is a thing called a monster pot now these things are quite flat portable there's no arms or legs to extend in fact you take off the back case there so the special polymer backing on here which sticks to just about anything it's crazy on the top here you got a little tripod screw mount there for your camera and I've seen these mounted on brick walls I've seen them even mounted vertically on a wire fence and it holds if you're looking for the ultimate and stabilization devices you probably can go pass one of these we've all heard of steady cans well this is a similar kind of a device they operate on the basic premises of a handle with a gimbal on the top and a weighted brace that redistributes the way to the camera in a different way so when you go walking set of stairs you can move your arm around without it moving the camera shot itself they're really really good okay now my ultimate peak for something to keep in your camera bag is this the steady pot these things are incredible extend this out steel cable with a grip on the bottom that you can put underneath your foot pull up then you lock it off this little tripod screw on the top here is where you attach your camera and it operates on the basic idea of tension so you just basically put this on the ground stand on it and then you can move this around like so and keep your shot nice and equidistant alright so as you can see plenty of stabilization of ice is no excuse not to have steady shots for your pocket filmmaking now before we go I'm going to leave you with a short inspirational film to check out called split screen it's all filmed on a smartphone it's a love story it's very pretty check it out now next time we're going to look at great ways to get fantastic sound out of your pocket camera so stay tuned see you next time