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Buy used Revolve slider or afford a new one?

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#1 Krimolvig
Hi, Im seeking advices from the best guys in the field:

I do not own an cam slider, but I realy like to get one.
Now I have the opportunety to buy an Revolve dolly bundly for a low cost, about [size=small][font=arial, sans-serif]€ [/font][/size]200. 

I've tryed this dolly for some time and noticed some downsided:

- It's quite a pain in the ass to assembly. Because of the cases I need to deassembly it everytime to cary it around.
- There is no rotation axis.
- The controller is primitive, theres no display to plan the sliding. Just an left- or right button and a speed wheel.
- There is no shoot-move-shoot mode, the slider slides independent of the exposures.

I do not afford to buy an new one at this time, I probably have to wait a year or two.
So do you think it's wast of money to buy this now, and buy a better one when I can afford it?
And what do you think of the downsides, will this limit me a lot in the timelapse-photographing?

Thanks,
Kristoffer
Running Molvig Media Timelapse-company | Vimeo | Youtube | Facebook

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#2 crdeantonio
My opinion is that this would be a wasted purchase.  It looks like a crappy build, doesn't do shoot-move-shoot (SMS) and only one axis of motion.  I don't think it's worth it.  Might as well save that money.

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