F250 camera
Pricing (08 Feb 2009)
$60/hour
for equipment and camera operator while on location (whether filming, or just waiting).
Plus additional crew.
Plus post-production.
Plus any transportation and/or other expenses.
Does not include cost of blank tapes.
Minimum 3 hour booking period.
Facilities
- Professional, genlockable, Panasonic F250 3-CCD camera with dockable AG-7450 S-VHS/VHS recorder (camera can be used independent of a docked recorder).
- Mains power supply or three 12 Volt battery packs (they last for approximately two hours each).
- Tripod with ground-level spider spreader or spider-dolly.
- RØDE SM5 microphone shockmount on the camera's microphone clamp (not pictured).
- Three Nakamichi CM300 microphones (9 Volt battery powered, all with omni- or uni-directional capsules, and two have super-directional capsules).
- Nady wireless tie-clip microphone with receiver (both 9 Volt battery powered).
- 500/1000 Watt floodlight (not camera mounted).
Other equipment can be included.
Notes
- Depending on what and where you intend to film, you may need to obtain permission.
- Be sure to outline your requirements. I don't bring everything along, only what seems necessary for a particular job. Conversely, some jobs will require more than what's included in this fee, such as a sound operator, or other assistants, and usually includes transportation costs. This is a starting point, it doesn't mean that all filming can be done for this hourly fee.
- I also offer my services as a cameraman to operate other people's equipment, for a lesser rate.
- Customers are advised to read the information about video taping productions, to be aware of the issues that can be involved, particularly when live performances are to be recorded. And the page about planning, filming, and editing productions if the job is about producing a video, rather than just hiring a camera.
- All video work requires editing, there's nothing that you'll have watched that hasn't been edited in some way. Raw un-edited material will contain many things that you do not want to watch. In general, we do not film something and give a client un-edited material, unless they're going to do the post-production work, themselves.
- We also do multiple-camera filming, either live mixed (preferred, because it produces the best results), or post-production editing of recordings from individual cameras.