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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Camera sliders help you create smooth, dynamic shots that add interest and energy to your videos. They provide a stable base along which the camera can slide (hence the name) in a smooth, controlled ...

We don't cover a ton of pro-level camera gear here at Engadget (though it's far from unheard of). But, a cool gadget is a cool gadget whatever it's for -- and this new motorized slider system from ...

Edelkrone has taken the wraps off its new SliderPLUS X and Motion Control system for mid-weight cameras, giving photographers and videographers a relatively simple way to get cinematic, smooth motion ...

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 ...