A camera slider is a popular and simple project — just a linear slide, a stepper, and some sort of controller. Adding tilt and pan axes ups the complexity until you’ve got three motors, a controller, ...

You can buy motorized camera sliders off-the-shelf, but they’re pretty costly. Alternatively, you can make one yourself, and it’s not even that hard if you’re kitted out with a 3D printer. [Creative ...

If you use a camera slider carriage for panning shots, the weight of some lenses can cause the carriage to tilt forward slightly and cause the carriage to bind up. You can fix that issue with a macro ...

This smooth camera slider can be paired with an optional motor to raise your time-lapse game or add a flexible, lightweight tool to your filmmaking repertoire. Managing Editor Josh Goldman is a laptop ...

I have to admit to occasionally doing something that's perhaps a little dorky. If I'm listening to particularly moody music, I'll sometimes close one eye, then simulate a tracking shot or a crane shot ...

Thanko's new Camera Slider Long Rail allows you to take a smooth sliding shot, which is hard to do while you hold a camera in your hand. There is a threaded screw hole at the center and also at either ...

Starting off as a spotty youth who worked in Currys, he moved to the BBC (after getting a degree) where he was an editorial wrangler. A stint writing for Top Gear and co-presenting Sky One's Gadget ...