When Dan Vance makes his 90 minute sci-fi feature "In Shivering Earth, it could not afford to use a film or video camera suspended high rent, it is not satisfied with the quality of video cameras in the consumer market, and he can not wait Red One, which must be submitted to the masses.

Therefore, he did what any red cruel, enterprising director will do… He designed and built his own camera! Of course, this looks like a camera from the late 80s, but inside, the mechanics are a front end tapeless video capture technology to record through the hard drive.


In the 1 / 2 "3 - Progressive scan CCD cameras-record material in PAL at 25 frames per second, using analog converter for Laird and firewire hard drive. Audio is an increase from the shotgun microphone preamp through converters in line input level. Indeed, Only parts that can be considered in the design are unoriginal recycled viewfinder with Sony DXF-501CE, and Fujinon lens dismantled retired news Ikegami cameras. shutter system has been in difficult, as it's LC (liquid-crystal) shutter as a result of the synchronization troubles. Solution it was back to basics, with a mechanical shutter is used on conventional film cameras film. however, it has led his own time and energy Vance issues, which ultimately resolved by allowing the camera shutter to "spin-up" before hitting record.

Vance shot his first film "Cold Day in Hell" proof of concept prototype cobbling together JVC SVHS Recorder with some other cameras cannibalized parts from Hitachi Industrial PAL camera. As a result, 700 DPI resolution images. Very good show, but wanted purely Vance tapeless accounting system to improve the resolution above 50i progressive scanning. The result is "film-look" big budget pictures to feel independent feature scarce.

Vance next project? Perhaps custom 3D camera.

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