Deluxe Camera Operation

$1,250.00

Expanded professional camera operation for productions that need more time, flexibility, and room to develop.

Starting at $1,250

What’s Included:

  • Up to 5 Hours of Camera Operation — Dedicated camera coverage for a half-day production window.

  • Pre-Shoot Coordination — Communication with the director, producer, or creative team to review the schedule, shot requirements, technical needs, and production workflow.

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

  • Multiple Setups or Locations — Time for additional scenes, interviews, looks, or locations when the production schedule allows.

  • Production Integration — Work from an existing shot list, treatment, creative direction, or production plan alongside talent and crew.

  • 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
Sony A1-based streamlined professional camera package with primary lensing, an additional lens when appropriate, batteries, recording media, filtration, and essential accessories.

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

Full Production Camera Kit — $1,550/day
Multiple-camera capability, expanded lensing, monitoring, stabilization, media, power, and greater 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

Branded content, music videos, documentary interviews, corporate productions, live events, performances, campaign content, multi-scene shoots, and productions requiring greater coverage than a short session allows.

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 project needs.

Custom Productions

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.

Expanded professional camera operation for productions that need more time, flexibility, and room to develop.

Starting at $1,250

What’s Included:

  • Up to 5 Hours of Camera Operation — Dedicated camera coverage for a half-day production window.

  • Pre-Shoot Coordination — Communication with the director, producer, or creative team to review the schedule, shot requirements, technical needs, and production workflow.

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

  • Multiple Setups or Locations — Time for additional scenes, interviews, looks, or locations when the production schedule allows.

  • Production Integration — Work from an existing shot list, treatment, creative direction, or production plan alongside talent and crew.

  • 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
Sony A1-based streamlined professional camera package with primary lensing, an additional lens when appropriate, batteries, recording media, filtration, and essential accessories.

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

Full Production Camera Kit — $1,550/day
Multiple-camera capability, expanded lensing, monitoring, stabilization, media, power, and greater 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

Branded content, music videos, documentary interviews, corporate productions, live events, performances, campaign content, multi-scene shoots, and productions requiring greater coverage than a short session allows.

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 project needs.

Custom Productions

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.