Pricing (17 January 2007)
$40/daily
while on location (whether filming, or just waiting).
Plus any transportation and/or other expenses.
Does not include cost of blank tapes.
Minimum ½ day booking period.
These cameras (I have two of them) are really only suited to something like low-budget community television productions. They are old, not as good in image quality as most current video cameras, but are available cheaply, have proper lenses and view finders, and can be connected to proper vision mixers.
Features/specifications
- Three tube (½ inch), 500-line resolution, dichroic-mirror-based colour separation, professional industrial video camera (1980s vintage)
- Large eyepiece CRT viewfinder with waveform white level indicator, and record and battery status LEDs around the outside of the CRT.
- Focus: · metres – ∞ (as well as macro)
- Zoom: ·– mm servo zoom (1:1)
- Iris: F·– ( lux minimum illumination)
- Genlockable to composite video source
- XLR mic socket (no phantom power)
- Four-pin XLR 12 Volt DC power input
- Plus the usual professional camera features (auto-white balance, white balance presets, colour correction and neutral density filters, three-step gain switching, colour bars, etc.)
- Composite video output
- Composite video monitor output (follows the viewfinder selector, for registration, etc.)
- CCU rack-unit provides RGB video output connectors (allows for chromakeying with the JVC KM-2000 video mixer), line view input, intercom & audio outputs
- Multipin recorder cables for various types of recorders
Accessories:
- 1 Manfrotto aluminium tripod (black) with claw ball leveller, fluid variable-friction pan/tilt head designed for a camera of this weight or greater (with reliable tilt locks), 90–140 mm leg length
- Floor level spider
- Fold-up spider dolly
- Zoom servo remote, with record/pause remote, for the tripod pan handle
- 12 Volt DC mains power supply.
- Several battery packs that last approx 1·5–2 hours each
- Nakimichi CM-300 microphones