Professional video camera
A professional video camera is a high-end device for creating electronic moving images. Originally developed for use in television studios or with outside broadcast trucks, they are now also used for music videos, direct-to-video movies, corporate and educational videos, wedding videos, among other uses. Since the 2000s, most professional video cameras are digital.
Modern digital television camera with a DIGI SUPER 86II xs lens from Canon
Sony HDC-1550 camera with Fujinon lens
This 1954 RCA TK-41C, shown here mounted on a dolly, weighed 310 lbs.
A 1973 Ikegami HL-33 ENG
A movie camera is a type of photographic camera that rapidly takes a sequence of photographs, either onto film stock or an image sensor, in order to produce a moving image to display on a screen. In contrast to the still camera, which captures a single image at a time, the movie camera takes a series of images by way of an intermittent mechanism or by electronic means; each image is a frame of film or video. The frames are projected through a movie projector or a video projector at a specific frame rate to show the moving picture. When projected at a high enough frame rate, the persistence of vision allows the eyes and brain of the viewer to merge the separate frames into a continuous moving picture.
A modern 4K digital cinema camera in 2018, Canon EOS C700 MultiDyne
The chronophotographic gun invented by Étienne-Jules Marey.
Charles Kayser of the Edison lab seated behind the Kinetograph. Portability was not among the camera's virtues.
Film-gun at the Institut Lumière, France