Cinema Drillpack Project

The introduction of high capacity drill batteries such as the Dewalt Flexvolt, Hitachi Multi-volt and Makita XGT have made the proprietary yet well established cinema camera battery formats irrelevant overnight. Not only are cinema batteries esoteric, they are prohibitively expensive and not multipurpose. The shear manufacturing volume of the power tool market outshines the entirety of the cinema market by several orders of magnitude, making drill battery production costs substantially less than cinema batteries while still providing high quality cells. The wide availability of drill battery packs sidesteps the hurdles needed to transport high capacity cinema batteries on planes, which is a bear for filmmakers shooting on location for a paying client. This project is my approach to adapting drill batteries to cinema cameras.