Traditionally, a tracking shot was achieved by mounting the camera on a wheeled camera stand called a dolly and for that reason these shots are also sometimes called dolly shots. Nowadays ...

From there he devised a mounting system which uses three camera tripods to hold the track. You can see a test video shot from the dolly track embedded after the jump. It’s the opposite of the ...

[Brian Grabski] was asked by a friend to design and build a dolly that would move a camera during a time-lapse sequence. Above you can see the product of his toils, and the videos after the break ...