Genie Archives - DIY Photography

Syrp’s new Magic Carpet Pro is a high end filmmaking slider offering infinite length

March 14, 2018 by John Aldred Leave a Comment

Syrp has just announced the new Magic Carpet Pro slider. Designed to handle some seriously heavy duty filmmaking the Magic Carpet Pro offers some very cool and interesting features. For a start, the flywheel is located in the carriage itself, removing the need for belts and pulleys for manual control. But this also allows for another perk.

Combined with new “Track Joiners”, you are able to create a slider of just about any length you wish by simply adding more lengths of track. No longer do you need to worry about having belts of different sizes, regardless of how long you want to slide. Of course, you can also add motion control it if you wish by adding either the Genie or Genie II.

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How to shoot and edit panoramic landscapes with the Syrp Genie Mini and Photoshop

November 25, 2016 by John Aldred Leave a Comment

A couple of months ago, Syrp updated the firmware on the Genie Mini to add a couple of very cool new features. One of those was the ability to automate the shooting of panoramic still images for stitching. It’s not a difficult process to accomplish, but there are one or two gotchas and things you have to look out for.

In this video from The Slanted Lens, Jay P Morgan explains the whole process, from start to finish. With the New York cityscape as his subject, Jay walks us through setting up the Genie for the sequence, shooting the images, and then stitching them together in Photoshop.

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Syrp’s new Slingshot is a motion control zipline that lets you dolly your camera for hundreds of feet

September 14, 2016 by John Aldred Leave a Comment

Creating super long slider or dolly shots is something many timelapse photographers and filmmakers dream about doing. For some, hyperlapse techniques and a lot of post production work is the answer. For others, that’s far too much work. When you look at the whole process, you can quickly see why. For others, the solution is a cable cam zipline type system.

It works with the Syrp Genie (review here), to provide you with a level of control that is otherwise difficult to achieve. Until now, though, these have been DIY solutions. In fact, you can see our own DIY Syrp Genie cable cam here. Today, though, Syrp have released their official cablecam, the Slingshot.

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We are giving away the best time lapse system ever – the Genie Pan Track Kit

August 18, 2016 by Udi Tirosh 7 Comments

Update: this giveaway has ended, please jump to the bottom to see the winner. Huge thanks to SYRP for the prizes.

If you are reading this site for any amount of time, you you know that we are big fans of adding movement to time lapses. And while there are some small and nifty devices out there, nothing beats a full rig. And the Genie Pan Track Kit is one of our favorite. Guess what? We’re giving one away! (street value $1,365.00 USD).

The kit is made up from four parts (and you can use them combined or individually): a Genie, a Magic Carpet Short Track, a Genie Mini, and a SYRP ballhead.

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DIYP Gift Guide – Accessories

December 11, 2015 by GB Leave a Comment

In the past few days, we’ve covered cameras, lenses and lighting. Now, we have for you a few smaller items for the holidays that you can pick up for yourself or photographer friends as helpful stocking stuffers.[Read More…]

How To Build A DIY 2 Axis Cable Cam

May 28, 2014 by Udi Tirosh 3 Comments

One of the fun ways to ad motion to a movie is by using a cable cam. We featured a short tutorial about building a gravity driven cable-cam back in February, but as the name suggests it was gravity driven, meaning you have very little control over the speed and duration of the movement.

This tutorial uses (not one but two) motors for making a 2-axis cable cam that is more controlled. Specifically, they are using the Genie, but even if you don’t have the budget for this (and willing to let go of some control), you can use slower servo motors instead. [Read More…]

Join Our Newsletter For A Chance To Win An Amazing Genie Motion Control System

March 24, 2014 by Udi Tirosh 4 Comments

Updated: the giveaway is now over, thanks everyone for playing! winner details at the bottom.

The kind folks at Syrp are giving away one of the most beautiful devices I’ve seen – a Genie Motion Control System. I do have to say that this is one of the most clever systems I’ve seen and its list of features is probably everything you’d ever need from a time lapses system (stay tuned, we have a review coming out soon too),

We wanna thank you for reading the blog, so we are we are going to give the Genie to one lucky subscribers of our newsletter. This newsletter is a pack of awesomeness that currently goes out every other Wednesday and includes the top stories reviews and inspiration from the past week. As well as exclusive offers and content. (Make sure you register today, so you don’t miss our next issue). Winners selected on Saturday, March 29th.

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