David Lynch On Using a Sony PD-150

David Lynch talks about his experience using a consumer video camera, the Sony PD-150, to shoot a film at AFI Silver Theatre in 2007 Silver Spring, MD.
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[@asapfilms2519]

More details were lost but that gives you more time to dream.

[@joaoreis9650]

more room*

[@BallsMcGintyTheThird]

i love his hand movements

[@DanielThePoet22]

I love how he uses hands to distract everyone’s mind

[@Guayaco007]

He's doing some sort of voodoo with he's hand lol

[@AngelerFils]

😂😂😂

[@josef_3001]

Shooting with prosumer handycam gave Lynch total creative freedom on the stage. Bigger quality issue IMHO was not the low NTSC resolution but the deinterlacing /up scaling for cinemas distribution in 35mm. This movies should be seeing on NTSC interlaced TV to look at his best old time TV quality.

[@RideswithChuck]

The first time i got a ride on a WWII bomber I wanted the best camera I could afford to document the experience. That camera was the PD150.

[@michael86734]

In my college they use it

[@iammaybeabro4598]

From what I’ve heard, this was a popular camera for shooting 2 types of video: skateboarding clips and pornos.

[@doomedandbored]

This interview aged well because he restored Inland Empire because he saw it on DVD and thought it looked like garbage. Thank goodness digital cinema tech has advanced since then.

[@thefutureispeace]

his fingers are distracting

[@TheCeephax]

It looks like he's putting a curse on his audience.

[@LeonAllanDavis]

Gotta love Lynch's technique of waving his fingers through the air to distract the audience from what he's saying. The audience leaves, not remembering a thing he said. Which is cool because he said nothing worth remembering. He was just there for the speaking fee.

[@creepyzebra]

The camera is a big piece of crap. Good for the time, but why people who keep heralding this old tech is beyond me.

[@nicbodratti3745]

I think he can do whatever the fucks he wants, is David Lynch

[@miloesalazar]

creepyzebra Digital is common and bland for modern people, there is something intriguing about old tech, that kids today will never understand.

[@nicbodratti3745]

Old cameras and new cameras are just cameras, small list of movies shoot on the sony pd150
"Jackass" (2000)
Camera: Sony DSR-PD150
"Switched!" (2003)
Camera: Sony DSR-PD150
9 Songs (2004)
Camera: Sony DSR-PD150
American Gun (2002)
Camera: Sony DSR-PD150 (video segments)
Andra sidan (2003)
Camera: Sony DSR-PD150
Arroz con mango (2002)
Camera: Sony DSR-PD150
Casual Friday (2003)
Camera: Sony DSR-PD150
Dancer in the Dark (2000)
Camera: Sony DSR-PD150 (with custom anamorphic lenses)
Deflation (2001)
Camera: Sony DSR-PD150
Desperately Seeking Seka (2002) (TV)
Camera: Sony DSR-PD150P
Down and Out with the Dolls (2001)
Camera: Sony DSR-PD150
Drowning (2001)
Camera: Sony DSR-PD150
Eldritch Influence: The Life, Vision, and Phenomenon of H.P. Lovecraft, The (2003)
Camera: Sony DSR-PD150
Epicureans, The (2003)
Camera: Sony DSR-PD150
Final Act (2004)
Camera: Sony DSR-PD150
Fluffy Cumsalot, Porn Star (2003)
Camera: Sony DSR-PD150
Frank & Mary (2001)
Camera: Sony DSR-PD150
Gecekondu (2003)
Camera: Sony DSR-PD150
Glitterati (2004)
Camera: Sony DSR-PD150
Go Further (2003)
Camera: Sony DSR-PD150
Hatch (2003)
Camera: Sony DSR-PD150
Henning (2004)
Camera: Sony DSR-PD150
Holiday Memento, A (2002)
Camera: Sony DSR-PD150
Honey Hunter (2002) (TV)
Camera: Sony DSR-PD150 (video segments)
Hotel Lobby (2003)
Camera: Sony DSR-PD150
How to Kill a Mockingbird (2002)
Camera: Sony DSR-PD150
How to Make It Hollywood Before You Make It (2004) (V)
Camera: Sony DSR-PD150
In Search of Ted Demme (2004)
Camera: Sony DSR-PD150
In This World (2002)
Camera: Sony DSR-PD150
Interview with the Assassin (2002)
Camera: Sony DSR-PD150
Irreversible (2004)
Camera: Sony DSR-PD150
Joy Electric Picture Book, The (2003) (V)
Camera: Sony DSR-PD150
Kissing Paul Newman (2001)
Camera: Sony DSR-PD150
Liquid Wind (2004)
Camera: Sony DSR-PD150
Mama Milka (2003) (V)
Camera: Sony DSR-PD150
Manic (2001)
Camera: Sony DSR-PD150
Mementos (2004)
Camera: Sony DSR-PD150 (some scenes)
Movimenti (2004)
Camera: Sony DSR-PD150
My Brother Tom (2001)
Camera: Sony DSR-PD150
Paper Clips (2004)
Camera: Sony DSR-PD150
Paz! (2002)
Camera: Sony DSR-PD150
Personal Velocity: Three Portraits (2002)
Camera: Sony DSR-PD150P
Pieces of April (2003)
Camera: Sony DSR-PD150
Placebo (2003)
Camera: Sony DSR-PD150
Poker Kings (2004)
Camera: Sony DSR-PD150
Processen (2003)
Camera: Sony DSR-PD150
Quattro Noza (2003)
Camera: Sony DSR-PD150
Refuge (2002)
Camera: Sony DSR-PD150
Reign in Darkness (2002) (V)
Camera: Sony DSR-PD150
Rising of the Moon, The (2002)
Camera: Sony DSR-PD150
Rule # 1 Day Three (2003)
Camera: Sony DSR-PD150P
Scopophilia (2003)
Camera: Sony DSR-PD150
Sobre mi piel (2003)
Camera: Sony DSR-PD150
Super Size Me (2004)
Camera: Sony DSR-PD150
Sur/Face juyon-nin no gendai kenchikuka-tachi (2003)
Camera: Sony DSR-PD150
Tadpole (2002)
Camera: Sony DSR-PD150
Teatime with John (2003)
Camera: Sony DSR-PD150
Thanatos Road (2004)
Camera: Sony DSR-PD150
Through the Eyes of the Sculptor (2004) (TV)
Camera: Sony DSR-PD150
Tommy Lee: The Naked Truth (2002) (TV)
Camera: Sony DSR-PD150
Torpor (2003)
Camera: Sony DSR-PD150
Uber Goober (2004)
Camera: Sony DSR-PD150
Uh Oh! (2003)
Camera: Sony DSR-PD150
Uncle Sam (2002)
Camera: Sony DSR-PD150P
Upside Downtown (2002)
Camera: Sony DSR-PD150
Veronika's Birthday (2004)
Camera: Sony DSR-PD150
Visitor, The (2002/II)
Camera: Sony DSR-PD150
Y.M.I. (2002)
Camera: Sony DSR-PD150
Yellow Sign, The (2001)
Camera: Sony DSR-PD150

[@Charlyfromthenuclearcity]

Dude, it's like any technology. You use it if you like it.
So many Super 8 shots in clips, series, and films nowadays, I'm pretty sure in the late 70's everybody found it horrible.

[@barebarekun161]

These PD150s were everywhere back in mid-2000s many news stations used this on the field back then.
If they used this for field news production then it's far from being a piece of crap.