Feelworld TP21

The Feelworld TP21 is a folding 21" teleprompter for DSLRs, mirrorless bodies, camcorders and PTZ cameras. The script runs on your own tablet, phone or portable monitor, 60 to 353 mm wide, in landscape or portrait, driven from the app or from the bundled Bluetooth remote. The beam splitter has 70 % transmission and a diagonal of 550 mm (21.7"). The CNC-machined aluminium body folds into a carrying case; a sun-hood and two extension arms are in the box.

21" folding teleprompter for a tablet, phone or portable monitor

Read the script straight down the lens axis

The TP21 sets a beam splitter at an angle in front of the lens: the camera sees through it, the speaker sees the reflected script in it. So you look into the lens while you read, and the viewer never notices a script is running. A twenty-one-inch pane is large enough for long paragraphs, and at 70 % transmission the picture stays bright, with no ghosting and no noticeable light loss.

It suits programme recording, interviews, online courses, vlog creation and commercials — anywhere you need to speak fluently while looking into the lens. The whole rig rides on a single tripod: teleprompter, camera and prompting device.

The unit has no display of its own. The script runs on your own tablet, phone or portable monitor placed on the lower platform; none of those devices is in the box.

A large beam splitter with a clean reflection

Glass diagonal 550 mm (21.7"), 70 % transmission

The beam splitter has a diagonal of 550 millimetres, that is 21.7 inches. A pane that size can be read from a greater distance, so the type does not have to be shrunk to the edge of legibility.

The transmission to reflection ratio is 70/30: seventy per cent of the light passes through to the lens, thirty per cent is reflected back to the speaker. The script is easy to read and the camera loses no brightness. The coating on the glass suppresses glare and the faint second image that spoils reading on cheap panes.

The glass is an optical part — fingerprints and dust show up more in a reflection than they do on a display. A microfibre cloth is in the box for that.

Tablet, phone or portable monitor

Device width 60 to 353 mm, tablets up to 21"

The holder extends from 60 to 353 millimetres, so it takes a phone, a small tablet, a 12.9" iPad Pro or a large twenty-one-inch tablet. The device can go in landscape or portrait — vertical prompting is what you need for short-form social video.

The prompting device rests on the lower platform between two rails; for a wider device you release the catch and the platform slides open. A portable monitor fed from a phone or a laptop fits here as well.

The camera bolts to the upper rail and comes off with the quick release button, so the whole rig does not have to be taken apart when you move.

Camera mount, rails and extension arms

Lift 90 to 135 mm, travel 353 and 215 mm

The camera bolts on with a 1/4" thread. Six screws pre-installed in the body, one camera screw and a quick release plate are in the box for that. It takes a DSLR, a mirrorless body, a camcorder, a webcam or a PTZ camera.

The camera mount lifts by 90 to 135 millimetres and slides along the rail. That centres the lens on the glass, so neither the edge of the teleprompter nor the frame of the prompting device enters the shot. The front rail travels 353 millimetres, the rear one 215 millimetres.

Two extension arms sit on either side. A microphone, an LED panel or a wireless receiver goes on them, so the whole rig stays on one tripod. The body is CNC-machined aluminium and weighs 2.85 kilograms.

App and Bluetooth remote

FEELWORLD Teleprompter for Android, iOS, Windows and macOS

The script is typed or pasted into the FEELWORLD Teleprompter app. It sets type size, scroll speed, mirroring, loop playback and page turning. Besides phones and tablets the teleprompter also works with Windows and macOS, so the script can run from a laptop or from a portable monitor connected to it.

The bundled Bluetooth remote starts and stops the scroll, speeds the reading up and slows it down with the stick, enlarges and reduces the type, pages through the script, turns looping on and switches between portrait and landscape. The manufacturer quotes a range of up to 10 metres. A keyboard can drive it as well.

What individual buttons do can differ with the phone brand — the manufacturer says so itself.

Wide-angle lenses keep the frame out of shot

Shooting focal length of 24 mm and longer

Use a lens of 24 millimetres or longer. With a wide-angle lens the field of view is wider than the teleprompter frame, so its edge never enters the picture; with a narrower lens the frame can show at the edge of the shot.

The detachable fabric sun-hood attaches to the four sides of the glass and shuts out side light that would mirror in the glass. The script stays readable even in a studio with hard sources.

Setting up and travelling

Six steps, and it folds into the carrying case

On location: take it out of the case, mount it on a tripod, unfold the beam splitter (the hinge opens through 135°), attach the sun-hood to the four sides of the glass, bolt the camera into the holder and finally put the prompting device on the lower platform.

Folded, it fits the supplied carrying case together with the accessories. Set up, the teleprompter measures 420.4 × 474.3 × 107.9 millimetres; with the rail extended it is 760 millimetres wide and 340 millimetres tall. A hex wrench for tightening is in the box.