Adjustable Camera Slider Rig

Macville

Macville

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Hey guys, I was wondering if anyone had seen this yet: http://www.cinemagadgets.com/adjustable-camera-slider-p-1631.html

The price is pretty good for something that is so adjustable (ask me how you can get it for closer to $500 though!)

I like the thought of this because I can easily go to say 6ft and it looks like it would hold my RED with a large head fairly well. Also, I know that the Modern Studio wheels are very nice to work with (I have the skater wheels set).

Just seeing what anyone else might have to say about it.

Matthew
 
Tipping over is a dangerous possibility especially if the center of gravity of your load is too high and/or offcenter. There is nothing to keep the slider rig on the rails ; it can come right off. My ladder dolly (Camtramsystems.com) adds some insurance by adding an underslung tracking wheel that prevents the rig from tipping over.
Actually, you could probably juryrig something similar to the cheeseplate - a metal underslung bracket that would hook onto the speedrail so it wouldn't tip all the way over.
Extra bottom ballast would also help lower COG if necessary.

my $.02
 
Monkeyking is right: I built a similar rig 2 months ago for a music video shoot and tipping over was a definite danger during the shoot. Just tilting or panning the tripod head required a bit of care, and it was workable, but I found myself wishing that I had rigged up an underslung wheel to keep the slider directly onto the track.
 
Not cheap, definitely not, but it's got the sturdiness of a wider base and can carry substantially more weight. Completely different animal from the ZaZaSlider. Besides: the guys with the bigger cameras and budgets don't care so much about cost. When you're putting $50K++++ worth of gear on some kind of rigging, you want it to be safe and to work with no problems.
 
Rodney V. Smith said:
Not cheap, definitely not, but it's got the sturdiness of a wider base and can carry substantially more weight. Completely different animal from the ZaZaSlider. Besides: the guys with the bigger cameras and budgets don't care so much about cost. When you're putting $50K++++ worth of gear on some kind of rigging, you want it to be safe and to work with no problems.
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Not completely different... I'm working on a version for heavy loads. It's called the "WiderSlider" (patent pending).

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