Making video on iPhone? You need this product

The device is also compatible with GoPro cameras.

Regular viewers of my ‘face for radio’ rolling Apple-related coverage will already know I don’t usually report on products. All the same, Sandmarc’s recently introduced Motion Dolly slider for iPhones deserves to be discussed.

What is Sandmarc’s Motion Dolly Slider?

If you make video on your iPhone, you may occasionally want to capture smooth tracking shots. Your creative work means you may want to circle a still object steadily or may want to cast your lens across a beautiful vista without camera shake.

That’s what Motion Dolly helps you with.

It’s essentially a compact but robust iPhone cradle on wheels that lets you position your phone and then move it around far more steadily than you can in your hand.

What does it do?

Sandmarc makes a huge array of useful accessories for iPhones, GoPro and DJi products.The $89.99 Motion Dolly Slider is fully positionable thanks to its ball head mount, handles both landscape and portrait mode, and offers clearly marked degree settings to help you keep your shot on track and has a reassuring amount of weight to boost stability in its industrial aluminium chassis.

The Motion Dolly features an iPhone mount as well as a GoPro mount. The Motion Dolly has a weight capacity up to 300g. In use, it offers a full 360-degree rotating stand, so you can put your camera into just the right position.

Note positionable ball head mount and useful degree settings.

It means you can approach your shot, configure the position you need, and capture your footage. It’s also, of course, very useful as a compact iPhone holder for still life shots.Here’s a video to give you a better sense of what this device, which can also handle GoPro camera, can do.

Video makers also benefit from the combination. By locking your iPhone focus on a subject, you can zoom in and out of the same subject while the background is flattened creating unique shots.

[Also read: The BBC’s tips for how to film movies with an iPhone]

I think this device will become one of the more useful accessories for iPhoneographers. It should certainly help professional journalists working in the field. Almost as useful as ensuring you use the Do Not Disturb button to stop incoming calls when you are capturing video.

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