Heavy Duty Motion Control Slider

Eric Coughlin

Eric Coughlin

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What recommendations are there for a heavy duty motion control slider? Something that has pan and tilt, repeatable parallax moves for interviews, and can easily handle a 20-30 lb camera setup.

E-Moto has a setup for the Dana Dolly which has a 15 lb capacity. Not sure how well it works for looping moves. Might be enough to take an Alexa Mini with a prime lens, Amira with a zoom lens would be overweight.

Ideally something costing less than $10k, and that can pack down to a relatively small size (in other words, not a full dolly setup).
 
what about ronford baker

Grip Factory munich? All the cine people?

Or Ill make one! Interestingly the Emoto and Rbaker has the same belt as mine :)
 
Do you know the price of the Ronford Baker setup?

Grip Factory Munich...had not heard of them before but that gear looks really well designed. That's Germans for you! I was looking at their jibs and thinking they looked cool and then saw they cost more than a Jimmy Jib. I'm not seeing a motorized option for their slider.

What is "All the cine people"?

I wonder if Grip Factory Munich's dolly track which is around 500 Euros for a three foot section would fit what I'm looking for. I bought a 16 ft ProAim dolly track and it has bumps at the joints, so it's crap and I'm returning it. Considering Matthews but for my Seven jib on a dolly (Kessler K-pod with dolly wheels) setup I've got the 24" width of the ProAim (which is the same width the Matthews comes in) is rather small as the K-pod legs want to stretch out further before the spreader is fully open. Grip Factory offers 24" and 39" width.
 
Well all over the world there are 'cine people' who make proper stuff designed for moving cameras on feature films

Ronford in the UK, GFM in germany, Solid Grip (in holland?) https://www.solidgripsystems.eu/
griptech in australia?

and I guess people in the USA

24in trakc is for dollies
39 in track is for cranes
(afiak)

I can certainly say (from experience not ownership) that 'solid grip' - very nice set of three tracks in a flight case does not have bumps
 
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