There’s plenty of room to install all kinds of cameras, even with long lenses, behind the glass, and the tray in front takes devices up to 10.5 x 9.5 inches – which covers most smartphone or tablets, although it’s not large enough for the iPad Pro. The TMP100 very easy to set up, with no need for tools, and lots of mounting options for fixing it your tripod. For this reason, we’d recommend it as the best teleprompter for semi-pro or pro content creators – and this is the one we personally use at Digital Camera World.
The Glide Gear TMP100 sits somewhere in the middle, offering high-end build quality and usability without breaking the bank. The best teleprompters come in a range of prices, from cheap ones for casual use, to very expensive ones for broadcast. And behind the glass, there's space to place your camera (or another smartphone) to film yourself. Then you use an app to display your script on the device's screen. This is reflected in the glass. You lie your phone or tablet flat, in a tray in front of the glass. However, a new generation of cheaper, smaller and lighter devices have recently emerged to serve the YouTube generation. Teleprompters have been used in broadcast television since the Fifties, but have traditionally been very expensive. So while you can see the words, they're invisible to your camera and so don't appear on the recording. This clever trick means you can read the text while looking straight at the lens. The glass is constructed in a way that splits the light in two (known as a beam splitter).
The words are reflected on a special sheet of glass in front of your camera. So how does it work? Essentailly these devices display your script as scrolling text (like in the opening of a Star Wars film).