ELSCM501-CAMERA MAINTAINANCE
Introduction
This module describes the skills, knowledge and attitudes required to maintain a camera. At
the end of this module, participants will be able to diagnose and rectify camera faults,
describe the camera parts, disassemble and assemble camera hardware, and finally install
television camera.
The last century has seen truly amazing leaps forward in the field of technology. Starting with
grainy images and travelling to Ultra HD in a century has been a helluva ride, so much so that
the so called ‘inventor of cinema’ Marey’s invention of a camera that looks like a shotgun (the
term ‘shooting a film’ apparently came from this’ now looks incredibly anachronistic, though
at the time it was revolutionary. From the Lumière brothers to the Coen Brothers, fromMéliès
A Trip to the Moon to James Cameron’s Avatar, the history of video technology has been
incredibly exciting.