I was researching progressive scan video cameras and came across a short film shot on a Sony TRV900.

This is Flight.357 by Andy Sutton.

A short film I made in 2001 about a guy who when confronted with his impending doom see’s his life flash before his eyes. Low budget, all shot with a Sony TRV900 DV camcorder and edited on the old iMac Graphite. I did the 3d in InfiniD3D and the rest in after effects. No blood or gore, but I think it works.

As for the camera I was researching, the TRV900 has 3 CCDs, progressively scanned for a high quality image. Still rather ‘camcorderish’ but workable for amateur film making as we see here.

It’s an older camera and as such ‘SD’ resolution with a maximum of full-SD PAL @ 720×576. Also included and unusual for a consumer-level camera is a manual focus ring.

Much more information on the TRV900 is to be found here.