A camera slider is a popular and simple project — just a linear slide ... and [Enza3D]’s design uses adjustable rails to move the gimballed pan-tilt head through two axes of motion.

You have to really like slide rules to build your own, including the necessary artwork. Apparently [Dylan Thinnes] is a big fan, based on this project he began working on a few months back.

You can of course pan, tilt and zoom when your DSLR/Mirrorless ... the position of the three axes as they were quite stiff to slide to get a perfect balance. After balancing the camera I unlocked ...

The Z tip/tilt stage is best suited for high-accuracy applications, such as fiber positioning, wafer inspection, flat screen inspection, optics positioning, maskless lithography, and ultra-LED ...