How we all love those sexy slow slider camera shots that we see on the movies and TV.
The way that the camera seems to effortlessly and smoothly float past the array of ingredients on your favourite cookery program, the smooth segue of the camera as it displays the dazzling flowers on those gardening programs and the slow considered change of point of view on those sumptuous period dramas.
Of course the equipment to carry out this feat of cinematographic splendour - a camera slider - are not cheap bits of kit.
But despair not people, you can produce similar sexy smoothness with very little in the way of equipment. In fact you may already have everything you need to do this
So check out the video below, This incredibly quick and simple DIY hack will allow you to take those sexy smooth slider shots that you've seen on the movies and TV with virtually nothing in the way of equipment and cost.
For something so quick and easy, the results of this DIY slider are remarkably good. Try it yourself.
Have you ever been in the situation where you have been out in the wilds with your video camera, hoping to make a nice little video, but the shots are a little shakey and you wishedthat you had brought something with you to stabilise your video camera, but the prospect of lugging a tripod along for miles meant that you left it behind? (that was a big sentence wasn't it?)
Then this could be the answer. An easily constructed and virtually zero-cost camera stabiliser that is so compact that you can carry it about in your pocket.
It might not compare with a full blown tripod, but it can certainly vastly reduce the inevitable shakiness that is part and parcel of hand-held shots.
And anyway, It's so cheap, easy and effective, that it's certainly worth making and trying out for yourself. I'm guessing that once you have tried it, you'll probably never leave home without it. Check it out in the video below.
