Ethnographic filmmakers have always looked for new ways to record lives. Drawing from Gilbert Simondon’s ideas on technology, this article explores the technical conditions of filmmaking through the materiality of environments, digital and optical devices, recording formats, and human actions. It considers the work of cameras as participants in the stone quarries of Hyderabad (Telangana, India), and discusses how infrastructures of digital videos are hacked and acted upon. This article suggests that to contribute to theories in visual anthropology, and understand practices of ethnographic filmmaking, we need to reveal how cameras work with filmmakers, but also through them.

中文翻译：

---

工作中的摄像头：海得拉巴采石场中布满灰尘的镜头和处理过的视频

民族志电影制作人一直在寻找记录生活的新方法。本文借鉴吉尔伯特西蒙东的技术思想，通过环境的物质性、数字和光学设备、记录格式和人类行为探索电影制作的技术条件。它考虑了作为海得拉巴（印度特兰加纳）采石场参与者的摄像机的工作，并讨论了数字视频的基础设施如何被黑客攻击和采取行动。本文建议，为了对视觉人类学的理论做出贡献，并理解民族志电影制作的实践，我们需要揭示相机如何与电影制作人一起工作，也需要通过他们来工作。