Basic Camera Operation

$500.00

Focused professional camera operation for shorter productions and straightforward coverage.

Starting at $500

What’s Included:

  • Up to 2 Hours of Camera Operation — Dedicated camera operation for a focused production window.

  • Pre-Shoot Coordination — Brief communication with the director, producer, or creative team to understand the schedule, shot requirements, and technical needs.

  • Professional Camera Operation — Thoughtful framing, exposure, focus, movement, and visual continuity throughout the shoot.

  • Production Integration — Work from an existing shot list, treatment, creative direction, or production plan alongside your team.

  • Footage Organization & Handoff — Captured footage organized for transfer through an agreed media workflow following production.

Camera Equipment

Camera operation pricing covers operator labor only. Productions may provide their own camera package or add equipment from Dawson Holter Creative.

Core Camera Kit — $750/day
A streamlined professional package built around the Sony A1, primary lensing, an additional lens when appropriate, batteries, recording media, filtration, and essential camera-side accessories.

Production Camera Kit — $1,150/day
An expanded setup with additional lens flexibility, external monitoring/recording, greater media and power capacity, and more robust camera-side support.

Full Production Camera Kit — $1,550/day
A comprehensive camera package with multiple-camera capability, expanded lensing, monitoring, stabilization, media, power, and production flexibility.

Camera kit rates cover up to one 8-hour production day and are configured according to the technical needs of the shoot.

Perfect For

Interviews, short-form branded content, social media productions, performances, behind-the-scenes coverage, documentary segments, simple commercial shoots, and other focused productions.

Footage Delivery

Captured footage can be transferred to client-provided storage at the end of production or delivered through an agreed media-transfer workflow.

Additional Production Services

Creative direction, editing and post-production, additional crew, lighting, dedicated audio, specialty equipment and rentals, travel, locations, permits, and other production expenses are available separately and quoted according to the needs of the project.

Custom Productions

Every production is different. Custom quotes are available for projects requiring a combination of camera operation, equipment, creative direction, additional crew, specialty production needs, or post-production.

Additional camera-operation time: $250/hour.

Focused professional camera operation for shorter productions and straightforward coverage.

Starting at $500

What’s Included:

  • Up to 2 Hours of Camera Operation — Dedicated camera operation for a focused production window.

  • Pre-Shoot Coordination — Brief communication with the director, producer, or creative team to understand the schedule, shot requirements, and technical needs.

  • Professional Camera Operation — Thoughtful framing, exposure, focus, movement, and visual continuity throughout the shoot.

  • Production Integration — Work from an existing shot list, treatment, creative direction, or production plan alongside your team.

  • Footage Organization & Handoff — Captured footage organized for transfer through an agreed media workflow following production.

Camera Equipment

Camera operation pricing covers operator labor only. Productions may provide their own camera package or add equipment from Dawson Holter Creative.

Core Camera Kit — $750/day
A streamlined professional package built around the Sony A1, primary lensing, an additional lens when appropriate, batteries, recording media, filtration, and essential camera-side accessories.

Production Camera Kit — $1,150/day
An expanded setup with additional lens flexibility, external monitoring/recording, greater media and power capacity, and more robust camera-side support.

Full Production Camera Kit — $1,550/day
A comprehensive camera package with multiple-camera capability, expanded lensing, monitoring, stabilization, media, power, and production flexibility.

Camera kit rates cover up to one 8-hour production day and are configured according to the technical needs of the shoot.

Perfect For

Interviews, short-form branded content, social media productions, performances, behind-the-scenes coverage, documentary segments, simple commercial shoots, and other focused productions.

Footage Delivery

Captured footage can be transferred to client-provided storage at the end of production or delivered through an agreed media-transfer workflow.

Additional Production Services

Creative direction, editing and post-production, additional crew, lighting, dedicated audio, specialty equipment and rentals, travel, locations, permits, and other production expenses are available separately and quoted according to the needs of the project.

Custom Productions

Every production is different. Custom quotes are available for projects requiring a combination of camera operation, equipment, creative direction, additional crew, specialty production needs, or post-production.

Additional camera-operation time: $250/hour.