Well, we had a chance to try out something that most smartphone users need, or at least those who use their smartphone for videos. That is the Steadicam Smoothee from Tiffen.

You can see it in the image here of what it looks like, and let’s just say when I was putting it on my smartphone, my wife came in while I was doing it. Yeah, it looks a little weird, because yes, this thing looks a little weird.

However, it works, what can you say? I’ll talk about what it was like getting it out of the box. First of all, you have put your phone in this brace thing that you put on top, and that is what holds your smartphone there so you can take videos.

Just to let you know, I have to admit that there was an issue with my phone. The clamp things that hold it in was hitting the power button, but I was able to work around it. That was the first issue.

The second issue was that you will need to get this calibrated. For that, you might need to use a weight that it comes with, plus adjust the weight on the front that has the Steadicam logo on it. When I first used it, the thing kept tilting on me. Then it is required to adjust the red horizontal and vertical knobs until it is really balanced out.

Before I get to the small problems that I had with it, I wanted to talk about what it is like to shoot without a Steadicam Smoothee. This is the video that I took while I was taking my dog for a short stroll.

Okay, you can see how shaky it is, so I then put on the Steadicam Smoothee and took my dog for another walk. It’s like one of those bad action films that over-compensates its lack of good fight scenes by just shaking the heck out of the camera.

Now, I want you to notice how that there is no shaking, even though there is some veering from side to side. This is because the way the Smoothee is set up has a handle that balances on it, and unless it is perfectly balanced, it has a difficult time staying in a certain place.

I don’t want anyone to think that this is a negative review of the Steadicam Smoothee from Tiffen. In fact, I highly recommend it. Like I said on the second video above, it will take a little bit of practice before it is second-nature, which is how everything works, really. In fact, there are some videos that I found about it here, which sound like they are narrated by Nick Offerman from Parks and Recreation.

Anyway, if you want this, you can buy it here for $149.95.