Category: dolly

How to convert a floor dolly into a DIY tripod track dolly

John Aldred

Floor dollies are fantastic tools for giving your camera some motion when shooting video. The problem with them, though, is that you need a perfectly flat stable surface on which to use them. The slightest imperfection or bump becomes obvious and easily noticeable in your footage. This is why so many photographers and filmmakers user […]

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Syrp’s new Slingshot is a motion control zipline that lets you dolly your camera for hundreds of feet

John Aldred

Creating super long slider or dolly shots is something many timelapse photographers and filmmakers dream about doing. For some, hyperlapse techniques and a lot of post production work is the answer. For others, that’s far too much work. When you look at the whole process, you can quickly see why. For others, the solution is […]

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How to build a large DIY Track Dolly under $50

John Aldred

DIY dollies come in all sorts of shapes and sizes using a variety of tricks and technology. Sometimes, though, you just have to go back to basics. That’s exactly what’s in this entertaining video from filmmaker David Sandberg. This is the second such dolly David has made since leaving his previous one in Sweden. Using a […]

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DIY your old train set into a motion control timelapse dolly

John Aldred

This is one of those unique repurposing projects that would have never occurred to me. Having never owned a train set in my life, why would it? I didn’t even know they came in such scales that would be capable of shifting a DSLR. It did, however, occur to the folks at Granite Bay Software, […]

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Meet Hercules, the world’s smallest programmable motorised camera dolly for video and timelapse

John Aldred

As visual creators, if and when we begin on that journey from stills to motion, one of the first things we learn is the power of a moving camera.  Once confined to the likes of big production companies, camera dollies and tracks have now become an almost essential piece of kit for many filmmakers and timelapse shooters. […]

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