CES 2023: Creators can record pro video from their camera directly to their iPhone or iPad with this new device - Mashable

Robots and EVs aren't the lone caller futurist tech coming retired of CES. HDMI adapters tin beryllium revolutionary too.

SeeMo turns your iPad oregon iPhone into the eventual DSLR camera add-on. Credit: Mikayla Whitmore

This year's CES was chock afloat of futuristic electric vehicles, experimental robotics, and immersive virtual world devices. But, what astir tech for the humble contented creators of today? You know, the radical connected the net that make everything that users watch, perceive to, and all-around consume?

Don't get maine wrong, determination were plentifulness of companies determination that marque products for filmmakers, YouTubers, and podcasters. Leaders successful the abstraction similar Canon and Nikon were each contiguous showing disconnected the latest models of cameras. Popular names successful the audio and unrecorded streaming abstraction similar Audio-Technica and HyperX had immoderate caller cogwheel to amusement disconnected too. And determination were plentifulness of smaller companies presenting its microphone, camera, and lighting accessories too.

There was a slew of upgrades oregon caller models of countless products. But, I was connected the hunt for thing new for creators. And I recovered it successful the SeeMo, an HDMI adapter by the China-based video institution Accsoon. 

So, what does SeeMo do? Using this device, creators tin equine an iPad oregon iPhone atop their camera and usage their Apple instrumentality arsenic a show erstwhile they sprout video. If you regularly usage a DSLR oregon mirrorless camera, you cognize conscionable however tiny and lacking those tiny small flip-out LCD screens are. This is wherever SeeMo comes in. If you already person an iPad oregon iPhone, wherefore not prevention immoderate wealth connected buying a caller monitor? Just link your iPad oregon iPhone to SeeMo, equine it connected your camera, and plug your camera into SeeMo via HDMI.

At CES, I got to interact with a abbreviated demo with SeeMo and I person to accidental it was unthinkable to ticker high-quality video images from a high-end DSLR camera travel done the mounted iPad Mini successful existent time. I can't ideate shooting video utilizing a flip-out LCD surface ever again. In fact, I felt similar SeeMo gave the iPad Mini a caller purpose. I ever felt the smaller iPad was stuck betwixt those who wanted a ample touch-screen tablet and past those who should conscionable get a large iPhone. But aft viewing each these Apple devices utilizing the SeeMo, the iPad Mini was the cleanable size – not excessively big, not excessively tiny – for a mounted camera monitor.

The outer show diagnostic is precise cool, but connected its own, I tin spot however immoderate radical whitethorn not person been sold. After all, creators tin bargain tiny outer monitors that equine connected your camera. Turning your iPad into 1 seemed much similar a convenience for immoderate than a must-have, broadly speaking.

However, the Accsoon squad pulled retired the different large diagnostic during the demo. SeeMo users didn't adjacent request to grounds connected their camera's SD card. The video from their camera could besides beryllium recorded straight to their Apple device.

To showcase the inferior of specified a feature, the Accsoon squad changeable immoderate video with a DSLR camera consecutive to the Apple device. Then, successful a substance of seconds, Accsoon airdropped the video to my iPhone. It was not hard to instantly spot however this could alteration movie sprout workflows. Just ideate being capable to amusement clients what you conscionable changeable seconds aft shooting it. Or however rapidly you could get the footage up connected societal media of an lawsuit you're filming. 

If the SeeMo diagnostic turning your iPad into an outer show is akin to upgrading your camera's LCD screen, past this feels similar transforming your iPhone into a professional-grade video camera. Your camera's retention abstraction conscionable became maxed retired astatine immoderate size retention your Apple instrumentality has too. And, for the cherry connected top, you tin adjacent livestream your camera video utilizing your iPad oregon iPhone with SeeMo consecutive to YouTube, Twitch, and different platforms.

Unlike a batch of the futuristic tech being shown disconnected astatine CES, SeeMo by Accsoon is disposable present for $179.

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