RE: Panamera smiles for the camera
Tuesday 8th January 2013
Harris has been won over by the Panamera and, fuelled from the black pump or not, mightily impressed with its talents. It'll do more than just hammer up and down the M4 though, as demonstrated by this spot over on Jalopnik for a super evil Panamera camera car spied on the streets of LA.
Panamera smiles for the camera
How to film fast cars? From a specially customised ... fast car!
Apparently run by a company known as Pursuit Systems , the Panamera has been wrapped in matt black to avoid unintentional reflected cameos and includes a custom rear hatch and, as Jalopnik puts it, 'tailgunner' camera window. Oh, and a sodding great boom on the roof too! Check out some of the other vehicles in the Pursuit Systems fleet too - very cool.
And an update on the slightly more precarious set-up used by John Frankenheimer for the car chases in Ronin, which basically involved a hapless camera operator sitting on a rig bolted to the front of a Mercedes E500, the V8 Merc chosen for its speed and stability much like the 450SEL 6.9 used for the filming of C'etait un Rendezvous. And because Frankenheimer was a bit of a fast Merc fan, hooning round LA in a supercharged SEC back in the day. He had previous too, bolting cameras to contemporary F1 cars for the filming of Grand Prix. GT40s were also used for both Grand Prix and Le Mans. Which is also pretty cool.
Looks like things have got a lot more sophisticated these days though. With or without the boom the matt black Panamera thing works for us too.
[Sources: Jalopnik, NY Daily News]
Discussion
Jack Damon does some cool stuff as well. The Cayenne is quite popular in California
http://www.cameracarsystems.com/pages/ferrari.html
http://www.cameracarsystems.com/pages/ferrari.html
But men in a shed can do it as well, with a car from Blackpool, used in quite a few movies.
http://www.tvrwedgepages.co.uk/wedge_specs_special...
http://www.tvrwedgepages.co.uk/wedge_specs_special...
sisu said:
Jack Damon does some cool stuff as well. The Cayenne is quite popular in California
http://www.cameracarsystems.com/pages/ferrari.html
wonder how it affects the handling of that 360 :Ohttp://www.cameracarsystems.com/pages/ferrari.html
dapearson said:
They should all be matt black, at least until someone produces some sort of invisibility paint.
JC: I like the look of it now
Hammond: It's behind that building
JC: Exactly
Iirc, a couple of years ago they were using pimped out fast ML's as a favourite fast camera car.
Let's be honest, what will be the difference in speed between a big powerful SUV (ML, Cayenne) and a more sports-oriented car like that ferrari when you load it up with gear like that? Hard to see why you'd take a panamera over a more practical Cayenne, you don't even need to do that ridiculous "window" mod at the back.
the first one is a ML63 AMG btw.
WCZ said:
wonder how it affects the handling of that 360 :O
The last film I worked on, one of the camera cars was a 2006 RS4, and whoever placed the batteries got it pretty wrong because it was riding round sat on its rear bumpstops for a few nights shooting. On the same film they were also using a supercharged Escallade, and a Cayenne. 4x4's are just more useful for getting a steady shot over rough terrain I suppose...
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