Screen Magazine: Vol. 29, Issue 2

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The new Merlin Arm and Vest make extended
shooting nearly effortless. Even with heavy
cameras – up to seven pounds (3.2kg) with the
optional Metal Gimbal – the Merlin can now fly
for hours without undue fatigue, and preserve
all the flexibility and reach of the operator’s
own arms.
The 2.6lb (1.2kg) Merlin Vest is the lightest
and thinnest ever made – it can even be worn
under a tuxedo jacket – and it’s designed to fit
the entire gamut of human sizes and shapes.
For 23kg eight-year-olds or 150kg linebackers,
the Merlin Vest provides complete comfort and
functionality for extended productions and long
continuous shots. All adjustments are ‘no-tools,
including the right-arm/left-arm changeover.
The Merlin Arm is ultra-light and extremely
capable. It’s a 7/8 scale version of its big brothers,
the Flyer, G-50 and G-70 arms, and provides
the same legendary performance and flexibility
including instant, knob-adjustable control of
lifting power for camera payloads between 2.5
and 7 lbs. (1.1 to 3.2 kg) The Merlin Arm also
provides enormous vertical lifting range (28”
or 71cm) and full ‘iso-elasticity’ so you’ll need
only ounces of force to maintain the highest or
lowest lens heights (from way above the head to
below the waist).
Like its big brothers, the Merlin Arm includes
two-axis adjustment of the arm-to-body angle
so that people of differing shapes can adjust the
lifting angle to their most comfortable posture.
Together the Merlin Arm and Vest actually
increase your shooting options. The operator
can ease the Merlin back against the body
and shoot ‘handheld’, with both hands on the
camera, and fly seamlessly back off the shoulder
and continue moving. With practice operators
can fly the Merlin one-handed right off of the
mounting post during a shot (docking the arm to
the vest with the other hand) and execute those
unique Merlin shot opportunities – ultra-low- or
ultra-high-angles – and then slip it back onto the
arm to continue the shot.
The STEADICAM® MERLIN™ is ultra-light,
ultra-rigid, ultra precise, folds spectacularly and
is beautiful – in short, the ideal instrument for
today’s videographers with camcorders weighing
up to 5 pounds. For documentaries, weddings,
news segments, commercials, even low-budget
features, the Merlin shines. In practiced hands,
it performs as impressively as the big $60,000
Steadicam, yet remains ultimately unobtrusive.
The Merlin is not only stable, it is also an
inherently graceful way to hold a camera –
not only for big moves and running around,
but also for those subtle, imperceptible and
elegant displacements of the lens that cannot be
achieved any other way. And now, with the new
Merlin Arm and Vest, one will be able to shoot
longer and ‘fly’ more easily and more precisely
than with anything else on the market.