Viltrox’s DC-T1 is a $108 wired monitor for filming on your phone

Filming on a phone has one persistent awkwardness: the screen you are shooting with is the screen you cannot see, because it is pointing at your subject. Viltrox’s new DC-T1 is a compact 5-inch monitor that solves that by clipping onto a phone rig and connecting over a cable rather than wirelessly — and at $108 it is priced to be an easy addition. Details are on the official Viltrox DC-T1 page. Wired, and why that is the point Most phone monitoring solutions are wireless, and wireless is exactly where they fall down — lag, interference and the occasional dropout at the worst possible moment. The DC-T1 connects over USB-C instead, giving low-latency video with none of that fragility. The catch is stated plainly in Viltrox’s own specification, and it is worth repeating: the phone must have a USB-C port with DP (DisplayPort) video output. Not every phone does. Recent...