DIY IndieSlider...

Just posted a test video. Shot on a GH2 with the 14-144mm lens.


I used the following parts:
WS-10-40 1000 (Track)
WW-10-40-10 (carriage)

Martin
 
haven't been on here much recently, but I'm using my slider on a shoot today and wanted to swing by real quick and give Za a digital high five/beer toast for discovering this thing! :beer:

best,
Adam
 
adamrahn said:
haven't been on here much recently, but I'm using my slider on a shoot today and wanted to swing by real quick and give Za a digital high five/beer toast for discovering this thing! :beer:

best,
Adam
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Cheers Adam & thanks for the kudos! :beer::thumbsup:

:happy:
 
Wow...what a trip... back from the NAB Show and another great show it was! Long trip home as my Southwest flight was delayed 5 hours, but hey, at least it wasn't one of their "convertible" planes.:shocked:

So, a few months ago Lucas Gilman contacted me and wanted a ZazaSlider for a shoot in the Pacific Northwest. Besides being a REALLY cool guy, Lucas is one hell of an extreme sports photographer. Perhaps you saw him on the Today Show or MSNBC? http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/41491510#41491510

Flash forward to the NAB show...I'm checking out the G-Technology booth and there is a video playing looped on the big screen and a bunch of computers. Lucas is rocking the ZazaSlider... it even shows up at about 1:30... and he was kind enough to give me a credit at the end too. Check it out, I'm loving the SloMo from a Nikon P7000 in a custom housing for the POV shot mounted on the Kayak as the pilot goes over the falls....SWEET!


Thanks again Lucas...looking forward to more! :thumbsup:
 
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Lucas' footage looks awesome. That's pretty damn extreme.

Still loving my zazaslider, it goes with me to all my shoots. (Nothing as crazy as what I just saw)
 
Hey, maybe it's interesting for you guys, i'm building a motorized slider atm and this thing will be open source. You can see the making of here:

Part 1: Mechanics

Part 2: Electonics
 
^ Very cool! Might take a little longer then 20 minutes to build... but really, really cool! Great work. :thumbsup:
 
just thought id sign up here, to say this looks awesome!
going to order one soon, just need to weigh up a few things first.


I know most of these questions have probably been answered before, but I cant bring myself to search through the entire thread to find the answers.

I did read that you can let it slide purely under its own weight, whats the slowest smooth speed possible only using gravity?
Also i've seen lots of people motorising these, does anyone have an idea of what the total cost roughly is for the belts, motors etc?

many thanks!
 
cheers!

what sort of nice features are you talking about? All I would really want from it is an incredibly slow rpm, for doing timelapses with. move-stop-move would be nice, but I think it would be beyond my skillset currently!
 
If you use a DC-motor instead of a Stepper motor, you don't nee the whole electronic. But then you can't save positions and i think a ramp for acceleration and deacceleration is not s easy to implement.
 
Fantastic!

Fantastic!

I'm looking to get a slider AND I just took an Arduino course! Do you guys have a website? This looks like a great project.
 
I'm a big newb when it comes to tools.

My question is, if I needed a 1/4" hole drilled into the system, the correct tap for it would be also 1/4"? I'm just wondering because if I have the 1/4" hole and tried to put a tap of the same length, wouldn't there not be any metal in the way to tap, does that make sense? Wouldn't the hole have to be slightly smaller so that there's metal to shear/tap through with the tap?

Also, I own a Matthews M25 tripod. When I detach the head, the screw underneath seems too small to be 3/8" (I compared it with my Manfrotto monopod which has 3/8" screw) but too big to be 1/4" Anybody have an idea what size that could be?
 
Blade Borge said:
I'm a big newb when it comes to tools.

My question is, if I needed a 1/4" hole drilled into the system, the correct tap for it would be also 1/4"? I'm just wondering because if I have the 1/4" hole and tried to put a tap of the same length, wouldn't there not be any metal in the way to tap, does that make sense? Wouldn't the hole have to be slightly smaller so that there's metal to shear/tap through with the tap?

Also, I own a Matthews M25 tripod. When I detach the head, the screw underneath seems too small to be 3/8" (I compared it with my Manfrotto monopod which has 3/8" screw) but too big to be 1/4" Anybody have an idea what size that could be?
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I can answer the first part... yes! For a 1/4"-20 tap you want to use a #7 drill bit for the original hole (which is really close to 13/64th... but a little smaller) and be sure to use cutting oil when tapping.
 
This is a music video i just finished recently shot with-


Shot on the 5DII & 7D
Canon 70-200mm IS 2.8L
Canon 24-70mm 2.8L
Canon 100mm 2.8 macro

Igus slider


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