Sony made its shooting grip better for creators working without a crew

The GP-VPT3 is $20 much costly than its predecessor, but besides much functional. | Image: Sony

Sony announced a caller mentation of its multi-function shooting grip and compact tripod that puts its wireless controls connected a removable remote. Previous versions featured controls that could run basal functions of an attached camera portion holding onto the grip. The caller GP-VPT3 makes them adjacent much utile for solo contented creators who tin present run a camera portion lasting successful framework successful beforehand of it.

Sony still sells the older version for $139.99, but the added functionality of the new GP-VPT3 Multi-Function Shooting Grip comes with a tiny terms bump to $159.99. The bundled remote, which Sony calls the RMT-VP2 Wireless Remote Commander, is sold separately for $89.99 for those who don’t request the grip oregon don’t privation to regenerate their existing one.

The GP-VPT3 is compatible with Sony’s Alpha Series cameras and smaller vlogging cameras similar past year’s ZV-E10 II. It tin enactment up to 3.3 pounds, which means you tin perchance usage it with larger lenses too, arsenic agelong arsenic they don’t protrude excessively acold disconnected the camera and displacement its halfway of balance.

The RMT-VP2 distant connects to Sony’s cameras implicit Bluetooth and has a scope of astir 33 feet. It includes a shutter button, a dedicated movie grounds button, a rocker that tin beryllium utilized to power zoom oregon focus, a fastener for turning autofocus connected and off, and a C1 fastener that tin beryllium customized to power different functions.

As with erstwhile versions of the grip, the caller GP-VPT3 connects to a camera utilizing its tripod equine and has a flexible caput allowing an attached instrumentality to tilt forwards and backmost and swivel 360 degrees. It tin relation arsenic an ergonomic handle, putting the astir important camera controls astatine finger’s scope erstwhile shooting one-handed. It besides unfolds and becomes a stubby tripod, making it easier to acceptable the camera up astatine a circumstantial space for timelapses, oregon for filming yourself.