 Hey what's up guys welcome to the training reviews so I'm pretty excited about this one I have just received the Zephon micro 2 now what this is this is a 13 inch micro rail slider so it's very compact it's like a camera dolly to give you some very smooth footage if you wanted to get a desk shot of particular items when you're doing macro shooting for example it does a really great job if you're outdoors and you want to get some really smooth footage of people of architecture of objects of nature then this does a great job with that as well I will be showing you some sample clips shortly so keep an eye out for that in this video so just starting off with the design this is a metal and plastic rail slider in length it's 53 centimeters which is about 21 inches from end to end so you get a very good length of your shots when you're doing some smooth recording and it does give you eight kilograms of payload on top of it which is actually very good some gimbals I've seen that do this type of stuff only have a max payload of about three kilograms so a massive heavy-duty camera dolly for you to record some very smooth footage now inside the box you get the screw adapters for the screws here on the top and bottom depending on where you're going to mount this you can adjust that accordingly it comes with the user guide and it also has an allen key if you want to get in there depending on where you're going to mount it you might have some tricky situations where you need to use that now the micro 2 actually achieves quite an extended length by the dual slide design which basically means the belt in the center pulls the camera plus the metal rails move in the same direction but at a slower pace so as you can see here the metal rails are going a little bit slower than the belt in the middle so I'm just sliding it across now as you can see it doesn't really cause any issues when you're moving it and it doesn't cause any jerkiness in the video and it's very solid so you have to put a little bit of force to make it move but if you're holding it very still and it's sturdy then you'll have the best footage possible now it does come with fluid damping friction technology which basically means it ensures very smooth and consistent manual movement some of the other cheaper dollies out there like I have one which is about 50 inches is quite long but because it's so manual there's no really any technology in there it's not electronic or anything like that some of the manual footage I'm doing when I'm pushing the camera along the dolly is sometimes faster in some situations and sometimes slower in another situation and depending on how my hand movement is manually moving it it's not so smooth I mean it's obviously great for getting a horizontal footage for whatever purpose you're doing it for but because there's no technology to actually keep it controlled and secure it sometimes goes fast and it slows down goes fast and it slows down based on my hand movements this is the same movement no matter how much pressure you're putting on it it's going to move at the same pace and it just makes things so much easier and not to mention that it's so compact and it's pretty light you can just take this anywhere with you the other thing that it also comes with is a carry case so you can just slip it in there put it in your backpack your camera bag and just take it wherever you need to if you are doing some filming in the middle of the device it has a locking mechanism so you have to keep it in the middle of the actual rail and it will clip it into place so it doesn't move so if you do put it in your backpack then it wouldn't move up and down in various different places and it wouldn't start causing problems so that keeps it secure there and finally at the top you have the quarter mounting screw which is basically for your cameras at the bottom you have the three eighth screw which is for your tripods and you're mounting them on that but like I mentioned it does come with a screw adapter in the box so if you want to use this for any other mounting situation then you'll be covered in that part as well now to complement this it comes with another device called the easy lock 2 which is basically a mounting platform for you to put this onto tripods and flat surfaces or even uneven surfaces just to make this a little bit more sturdy and a bit more secure so if you're filming outdoors this is the perfect thing you need to go with this and you wouldn't want to damage this itself by putting this flat onto a ground it's good for maybe using it on a table doing some close-up macro shooting in the house but if you're going to take it for real life use then you definitely need the easy lock 2 so this is how it looks it's a completely metal like I mentioned with the micro 2 it actually has the quarter screw at the top and it also comes with this ball head which you can actually screw on there for your cameras as well so it's very tiny but also it's very strong and it's going to keep your camera very still so when you're recording elsewhere then this is the perfect thing you need underneath the easy lock 2 it has four legs so as you can see you can pull them out and you can put them into any direction likewise they also have these feet so you can put the feet out and have it flat on a surface and it just makes it more secure now at the bottom you have this quick release plate and that is perfect for your tripods so if you set this up for your tripod and you're ready to go for shooting then all you do on the side you just unscrew the gray hinge there and it basically just comes out but you'll obviously have to make sure the legs are open before you can pull it out just like that and it clips back in you close the legs like so and then you just screw it back tight and then you're pretty much ready to go now this is very heavy duty the payload on this itself is almost double that of the micro 2 which is 15 kilograms because not only do you have to mount maybe a camera on there but you have to take in consideration that you have to mount the micro 2 on top of this and also you have to put the ball head on top of the micro 2 and then you put a camera on top of the ball head so that's a lot of extra weight on this and it does make it very strong so let me go ahead and quickly clip this into place like so now I've got the ball head screwed on top the last thing left to do is put the camera on top of the ball head I can adjust the size of the angle of the ball head as well and then put it into whatever position I want and then I'm ready to go so I'll unclip this just quickly show you I'm putting a little bit of force on it I'm holding the leg it's going very smooth at the same speed throughout the whole movement and then when you reach the end you stop and then you come all the way back obviously the harder you push it will go slightly faster but it's not crazy fast like in very manual dollies that you can buy so you put it back to the middle very easily clips into place and you can't push it anymore so that's everything I wanted to show you about this setup so let me go ahead and show you some sample clips of how this looks with some footage and let me know what you guys think okay guys so I hope you enjoyed that very smooth footage you can see in some of the clips how I was manually capturing all of these different angles with the rail slider and easy lock 2 on my tripod so you can tilt it just make sure you have a heavy-duty tripod so it doesn't tilt over but it depends on the payload of your camera and your lens as well so this comes in at just under 250 pounds at the time of recording this video I'll leave a link in the description below on where you can purchase this whole set that's the micro 2 and the easy lock 2 as well you definitely need to have a combination of both when you are going to use this so I recommend getting both and not just one and if you have any questions if you'd like me to try anything else then do let me know otherwise this was an amazing product I'm going to be using this on all my videos going forward for some very good b-roll footage close-up shots and macro shooting and hopefully you guys will catch that as well so I hope you subscribe I hope you like this video and I'll catch you guys at the next one take care