Zeapon Micro 3 Slider Review with Test Footage

I've said it before I believe that sliders are the secret sauce to making your footage have a higher production value I've been shooting over the past month on all different types of shoots with this slider and I've been able to formulate a very good conclusion on it I've thrown all different types of cameras on this from my fx30 rig all the way down to the little zd1f and if you're a real estate videographer a nature documentary Enthusiast a YouTube video creator into product video or you just need someone to film yourself but you don't have anyone to film yourself I was even able to get some macro shots with the Sony 90 millimeter macro lens F 2.8 so pretty cool then you're going to want to look into purchasing a slider sliders allow you to get that linear tracking movement better than any gimbal or handheld shot that you'd ever be able to achieve I've used the paper slider in the past which is good but it's limited to however tall your table or countertop is and have also used manual sliders but nothing compares to a motorized slider like the z-pon micro three I've had the micro 2 slider for almost a year and have used that on all different types of shoots so I was super excited to get the micro three pull it out of the box see the differences and see how much better the micro three is than the micro 2. today we're going to talk about how to make your videos look more professional and cinematic using this particular slider and what they have improved on since their last slider the micro two today on the film Alliance [Music] we're going to talk about all the positives and negatives when it comes to using this slider and other sliders but the first thing that I want to point out that's different from micro sliders to your old standard traditional sliders is this one only needs one tripod foreign sliders need two tripods which means your setup time is doubled and making sure the slider itself is level is an extra piece of workflow that you don't need to do with these type of Sliders now although z-pawn is not paying me to make this video they did send me the micro three slider for free and asked me to make a review video for it but they're not reviewing the video before I post online and didn't give me any talking points they just sent it to me and asked me to give an honest review sliders are one of my favorite pieces of gear because they keep your camera in a linear movement while keeping your camera completely vertically still if that makes any sense come on [Music] if I tried to bend over and get a slider shot with my arm you would see the up and down movements of the camera and also you would see the Tilt axis going up and down on the camera whereas sliders just give you a nice still shot one of my favorite things about this slider is you can remove the motor to go into a manual push mode which means if you forget your battery at home or your battery runs out and you're out in the field you can just easily remove the motor without any tools and then be able to do manual push slides it's also great for traveling you can take it apart to make it a more smaller form factor and be able to travel with it without it being so bulky in your bag also manual pushes are nice because it gives you the ability to have a more controlled slide on the actual motor itself you have three preset speeds one two and three three being the fastest one being the slowest and sometimes the one being the slowest isn't slow enough and sometimes three isn't fast enough a lot of these shots with the four wheeler I wanted to go a little bit faster than the fastest speed on the preset so that would have been a great time for me to take the motor off and do a manual push at a little faster of a rate it also has a tension adjustment adapter so you can adjust the amount of tension that you get while you're pushing it that way you have a more evenly killed push and you're not dependent on your unstable hand push one thing that's different about the micro three slider compared to the micro 2 is you can manually set your a b points on the slider without having to go through the app I hated the fact that I had to go through an app to set my a b points on the micro two slider because at the time I did not have a smartphone all I had was the Light phone because I was trying to break my habit from using a smartphone which I still am by the way so if you don't have a smartphone then you couldn't set the a b points well not you can do it manually and I wish that all of these camera companies would make their camera gear be completely dependent with inside the gear itself and not with a smartphone because that assumes people have smartphones but there are a few of us that are trying to break that habit and just go old school with a flip phone when I used to set the micro 2 slider up on a tripod sometimes the weight of the camera and the motor of the micro 2 would be too heavy on one side and then the entire slider would tilt but thankfully with the micro three they sent tripod support arms two of them so you can hook them to the bottom of the quarter Mount throughs underneath the slider and then hook them up to your tripod that way you have 100 stability and you don't have to worry about the slider tipping over once it gets to the outsides when you have this slider set up vertically it can push nine pounds worth of camera up and down the slider and if it's horizontally then you can push up to 26 pounds I don't know how heavy my fx30 rig was but it was definitely handling it very easily this is by far the best micro slider that I've ever used especially for what I use it for filming myself out in the field or even using it for different client shoots doing real estate videography or product videos this slider comes in three different sizes 23 inches 30 inches and 42 inches this one's the 23 inch and the other two are on back order but if I had my choice I'd probably go with the 30 millimeter just to give me a little bit more room before I run out of space to slide now don't get me wrong that 23 inches is plenty enough slide space but I just like to have that extra little room in case I didn't get the shot that I wanted but with everything positive there's always some negatives now I don't think that this slider in particular has any negatives that would affect me but don't get this slider if you want to use it for interview talking headshots because the motor is pretty loud [Music] I think if they were to upgrade the motor to a brushless motor and make it a lot quieter to where you could use it for interview settings then the price of the slider itself would go up so I think that they found the perfect medium between this is more of a b-roll camera or a camera that you can go out and you don't have to actually listen to the audio of the camera whatever audio you'll be using will be external or maybe sound effects or you can even put voice over it like I've been doing for this entire video another problem that I find not with just this slider but really any slider is the camera's lens stays fixed in One Direction whereas a lot of times for these slider type shots I would like to have kind of like a parallax where the camera itself will kind of turn as the slider moves past that way you're being able to see the subject in a three-dimensional space not just in a linear line now they do sell an extra accessory called the pons PT that does hone in on your subject and stay tracking on it kind of like the DJI osmo pack kit but it does cost a pretty penny I think if someone is heavy into product videography then that's when they should invest in this pons PT system to lock on to your Parallax subject but if you're like me and you're just out in the field maybe you could use a gimbal tracking system like I used for the Weeble 3 or you could just put a tripod head on the top and be able to manually turn the camera as the camera slides now I did find that as long as you have a very nice tripod head then you'd be good but if you don't then you're going to see the footage kind of shaky and unusable so I wanted to tell you guys about this slider because it is by far my favorite slider I've ever used and going forward when I use it in my videos and people ask which slider I use I'm going to point them back to this video thank you for watching and until the next one have a nice week [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign I've said it before I believe that sliders are the secret sauce to having I've said it before I believe sliders are the secret sauce to making your footage have a higher productive to making your footage have a higher making your footage have a high production value

Channel: The Film Alliance

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Length: 10min 12sec (612 seconds)

Published: Fri Nov 25 2022