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, ...

One key to keeping viewers engaged in your story is creative camera movement. Dollies, cranes, jibs and tracks are among the oldest technologies for achieving this. A new variation is "the slider," a ...

Camera sliders are a popular build, and properly executed they can make for impressive shots for both time-lapse sequences or real-time action. But they seem best suited for long shots, as dollying a ...

You know those butter-smooth side-to-side sliding shots you see in the movies? These have traditionally been the product of professional cinematographers with expensive cameras and equipment, but gear ...

Smartphones are literally all you need to make solid web video these days, it's just so valuable to have a HD camera with you at all times. And you can take it up a level with the Muwi, a cheap, ...

Photographers searching for an ultracompact portable, smartphone controlled camera slide may be worth giving the aptly named SliderMini further investigation. The easy-to-use pocket sized motorised ...

Smartphone photographers and those that prefer a more traditional DSLR may be interested in a new ROV camera slider which is being created by Kyle Hart based in Seattle. The camera slider allows you ...

Smartphones with mechanized parts may well be a stopgap measure until we figure out better ways to hide the cameras, but there's no denying that OPPO's Find X is fairly hypnotic with its pop-out top.