NEEWER 31.5in/80cm Camera Slider with Flywheel & Crank Handle, Smoother Carbon Fiber Dolly Rail Track with 4 Precise Bearings, Adjustable Legs, for DSLR Camera Camcorder, Max Load 17.6lb/8kg, CS85CM

Although it's not perfect, this slider is a great next step for filmmakers looking to make their shots look more alive. It is durable, lightweight, and easy to set up with its legs or on a tri-pod. You do need to get a ball head mount for easier panning and tilting.

This 31.5 inch camera slider track from Neewer makes capturing buttery smooth panning footage easier than frying up flapjacks for the crew at daybreak. As an aspiring filmmaker constantly fumbling handheld cellphone shots jerkier than a mechanical bull on hot sauce, having pro-level gear is essential for quality content creating. But glory be - with just one mount of my iPhone onto this sturdy dolly rail, I’m gliding gorgeous Hollywood style tracking shots slick as a freshly Zambonied ice rink! 🎥⛸️ That carbon fiber build paired with precision bearings lets me steadily cruise footage left and right with the control of a Swiss watch movement. No more uneven wobbles or shakes plaguing my artistic masterpieces! Just perfect stability whether inching along subtly or rapidly revealing scenes with show-stopping dramatic effect. My production value just shot up. So if all those unstable tracking attempts have you more frustrated than a pig chasing its curly tail, slide on down to Neewer’s cinematic dolly track! Your visual visions will flow smooth as honey.

The slider is extremely smooth. You have to develop a skill to turn the fly wheel which i learned in couple days. I am planning to convert to motorized version using $17 lego m motor.

Picked this up and just recently tested it on a product video shoot where I used it to pan smoothly along a row of bottles. It comes mostly assembled. Setup was dead simple and consisted of installing the flywheel, taking less than a minute. The entire unit is very lightweight, the carbon fiber makes a difference here, especially at this size. Motion is smooth and silent, as it should be. There are soft, hard stops at each end. I set it up with a fairly heavy rigged out cinema camera and it didn't bat an eye. The results you get here in terms of smoothness are largely dependent on how smoothly you can spin the wheel by hand. For long movements it helped me to set up a metronome so I could ensure I was spinning at the same speed throughout. The major limitation here is obviously the lack of an automated motor or drive. That makes this unit a much better choice for applications like studio shoots, product videos, etc., where you have either an extra set of hands to operate the slider and/or plenty of time in a controlled environment to do so. For applications like interviews where your attention will be elsewhere (especially for a solo shooter), something motorized would be a better choice. Based on how it's constructed, I'd be surprised if it weren't possible to rig up an external motor to drive it, but that's a future project. My only other quibble is that the attachment screw on the slider head is fixed in place, and is not able to spin or be tightened from below (as on a tripod head, etc). This means that screwing something like a fixed baseplate onto it can be frustrating because it will really only tighten up at a certain angle. In the instructions they suggest using an intermediary mounting device like an adjustable ball-head, but that's not always an ideal solution with weightier setups. Not a dealbreaker, but it's good to be aware that you may need to invest in an extra bit of kit to make this as useful as possible given this fact. I own and use a lot of Neewer gear in my role as a video and content professional, and their stuff is almost always a top-tier experience. This unit is no different, and if you can learn to live with and work around it's minor limitations, it will be a great tool for you.

This is an excellent manual slider that is: lightweight and powerful enough to carry a full frame SONY A7R3 camera with a 24-70 f2.8 lens. Both rails are made out of light but tough carbon fiber and legs, flywheel and other accessories are made out of aluminum which is also pretty light. Installation of the flywheel is required and this is pretty the only assembly needed. Attach the camera via the standard tripod mount, and manually spin the flywheel will move the camera sideways. The resistance on the flywheel isn't linear though: for my specific unit, the resistance is greater when the slider is on the right side, and the resistance becoming smaller when it approaches the left side. This does require some practice and familiarization to this specific unit before taking perfectly smooth footages. Overall, the footage taken on the slider is day & night different than the handheld footages. I have not tried the angled up or down, but with a good tripod adapter, which I don't have currently,I believe this can also be achieved easily. This would be great for both videos and Timelapse photography. For the price paid, this is a good deal and lightweight to travel around. 5 stars.

I have been wanting one of these for years and I'm so happy with this one. Sure it's manual but to get some supper smooth video, there's no better way than a slider. It well made and a good brand. It comes with a case. Mine didn't include any instructions. I'm assuming that this is a professional-level tool and that I should already know how to use it. It came with a case. I like it very much.

So I have geared up with a dozen new lights and stands from Neweer and this new dolly. It's supposed to have a weighted flywheel, nope, and it got a bad spot where it turns uneven so it makes the video unsteady. this is the third item in 2 months that should not have passed quality control :(

This is very well made and provides smooth and quiet camera sliding. It comes with a handle that you attach and can turn to move the camera back and forth along the track. I bought the optional Neewer arms to help stabilize this when attached to a tripod. The unit itself comes with adjustable legs that you can use on a flat surface. The only thing I did not like about this is how it is hard to get the camera to stay in place if you are using the slider at an angle. Gravity naturally wants to pull the camera down, and while there is a screw to tighten it in place, I found that it would loosen a bit and start sliding after a while, so either someone has to be near the camera holding the handle in place or you will have to use the slider on a flat surface only if you are by yourself and filming yourself.

ti have had few camera sliders but this is best I have owned , quality is amazing as its carbon fibre . very easy and also smooth to operate , doesn't have any annoying noises . can take a good load and also its easy to set up. excellent product would definitely recomend

This large, high quality carbon fiber slider unit for DSLR or mirrorless cameras from brand NEEWER is a mechanical based slider with no electric parts. Instead, it has a large turn dial, that you simply turn left or right to move the slider back and forth. It is very well made, both durable and light and with plenty of mounting features and some extra accessories like a nice ball tripod head. At 31.5in (80cm) it is a substantial size that can definitely handle larger cameras, but would work with a mobile setup as well, although NEEWER does offer smaller slider options for this purpose. This one is really for a camera and lens combo. The idea of a camera slider is to slowly move a visual from left to right and back again, this effect is called panning and it helps give your clips a cinematic effect. It's a very cool thing and worth ordering a slider for this purpose. If you have a a large camera and lens you want to use for cinema panning footage, this may be basic by comparison to the electronic versions, but it is still very high quality and will definitely do the job. 5 stars for what it is.

This carbon fiber slider is a nice tool to get smooth slider shots with lightweight cameras. It comes with a nice cary case and the weight is very light for the length. Its a learning curve to get smooth shots with a passive slider like this using light cameras because it can be very prone to shake and small movements. With a bit of practice I could get some really nice shots out of them though and its a nice addition to my toolkit as a filmmaker. I like that this kit comes with spare parts and a too as well as the flywheel option (i find it hard to keep smooth acceleration with the small wheel radius)

Now that my son has tried this camera slider I will give my opinion on it. The slider has a flywheel as well as crank handle. The product is of the usual Neewer quality, which means it is well made. ✅ max load 8kg ✅ adjustable legs ✅ sturdy and lightweight ✅ quiet sliding motion ✅ flywheel with crank handle ✅ easy to carry ✅ made of carbon fibre ✅ adjustable conveyor belt tension

I’m going to be ultra fair reviewing a video slider at this price point. As is, from the box, the product is below average, the belt is laggy and it simply doesn’t slide smoothly, the wheel feature is also useless given the teeth of the belt are quite oversized and they just have so much friction that it’s NOT SMOOTH! “That’s the whole point of a slider” I’ve used one of these before and the solution is to remove the belt, drop the wheel feature and operate it by hand or an elastic band for best results and you’ll have yourself a workable slider. The plate, the rails and the wheels are good but the belt is absolute rubbish. It’s lightweight you don’t need extra stands and it doesn’t bend! I wish they could just roll out a simple product without the useless extra features