The most badass ML55 you will ever see. Movie Car conversion
06-24-2006, 02:02 AM
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The most badass ML55 you will ever see. Movie Car conversion
This ML55 was tricked out to be a full driving camera crane. It is heavily used on car commercials. I have a friend who worked with it on a Saab commercial a few year back.
This car is perfactly balanced...completely matte black, right down to the wheels. Has black covers for the headlights, and black netting for the windows. IE: this car was made to not reflect of the surface of other cars.
If you want to see this thing in action, pop in the 2nd disc of Batman Begins:SE. Go to the section on the batmobile. You will see this thing driving on a SET over 100mph.
The first pic is the ML with the jib arm and remote head...and a HD camera for show.
The next pic shows how the passenger seat was retrofitted for a camera operator. He has his wheels (controls the remote head) and video tap. You'll aslo notice the driver has a video monitor for veiwing as well.
The last pic is where the jib operator sits and controls the arm. Also note the 2nd row seating has 2 montiors...one for the director to ride along, and one for the 1st AC to sit with a remote follow focus to sit and watch and guage the distance to pull focus.
Totally badass:
This car is perfactly balanced...completely matte black, right down to the wheels. Has black covers for the headlights, and black netting for the windows. IE: this car was made to not reflect of the surface of other cars.
If you want to see this thing in action, pop in the 2nd disc of Batman Begins:SE. Go to the section on the batmobile. You will see this thing driving on a SET over 100mph.
The first pic is the ML with the jib arm and remote head...and a HD camera for show.
The next pic shows how the passenger seat was retrofitted for a camera operator. He has his wheels (controls the remote head) and video tap. You'll aslo notice the driver has a video monitor for veiwing as well.
The last pic is where the jib operator sits and controls the arm. Also note the 2nd row seating has 2 montiors...one for the director to ride along, and one for the 1st AC to sit with a remote follow focus to sit and watch and guage the distance to pull focus.
Totally badass:
06-24-2006, 02:27 AM
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Originally Posted by Edr0e
Pretty nifty. Reminds me of the Cayenne Turbo movie car. Both are 
The merc is the most engineered, balanced, stable, and function of all the ones that have come out after it though.
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