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Talk about boys and their toys, this Kessler KillShock Recon must have a lot of DOPs and Grips wondering how they can justify this buggy in their next feature or commercial. It’s certainly a more affordable way than many alternatives to achieve some stunning shots or just another way to skin the cat on shots that might use more costly solutions. It might replace dollies and tracks and at times SteadyCams. And then there’s the car chase scene to shoot at 50 mph!


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Rick, My son and I have a Losi DBXL that we use to play with years ago. While this newer models have brushless motors, ours is a nitro engine. With the DC motor, there is still the noise as a factor as a Steadicam or dolly replacement. Interesting product though and probably cheaper than any other contraption when all is said and done.

Excellent point about the noise factor which needs to be considered.

Rick any footage shot with one of these? Couldn't find anything then a lengthy promo video of the thing, not showing anything shot with it

Paul, I know that was disappointing in the report that I referenced. Who cares what you can do with a full-size original buggy; we want to see what this miniature can do for video!

Hate to be pessimistic, but it's one of those solutions in search of a problem.

In reality, how often do you need a fast moving tracking shot from the height of a small dog ?

If that's what you need then GREAT !!!

JB

Tokyo 2020?

I wonder if you could adapt an under $500 1/5 Rovan RC Gas Buggy to use a gimbal mounted BMPCC or BMPCC4K, and then use their custom shock modules to tune it.

rick.lang wrote:Talk about boys and their toys, this Kessler KillShock Recon must have a lot of DOPs and Grips wondering how they can justify this buggy in their next feature or commercial. It’s certainly a more affordable way than many alternatives to achieve some stunning shots or just another way to skin the cat on shots that might use more costly solutions. It might replace dollies and tracks and at times SteadyCams. And then there’s the car chase scene to shoot at 50 mph!

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This new solution could provide a consistent, repeatable, programmed dolly shot:

Motion Impossible’s Agito dolly has liberated itself from physical tracks, achieving controlled, repeatable movement through magnetic strips.



...They could pre-embed magnetic tracks into their floors (or lay new tracks) to give Agito’s gimbaled cameras perfectly scripted shots, which can be repeated several times. The cameras are tracked through the game engine, and the whole scene is virtually automated—you need the actors to hit their marks.

...MAGTRAX allows autonomous steering, enabling the operator to use foot pedals for left and right, up and down like working on track.

...There’s been a substantial investment by Vū in Motion Impossible’s R&D, which will integrate the camera tracking and real-time rendering for actors to perform even in remote sets—probably other Vū virtual studios.

NAB 2022: The Electronic Dolly Runs Free at Last

https://www.premiumbeat.com/blog/agito- ... nic-dolly/