Control Resonant: Evacuation Zone Freeze Frame Camera Locations

Manhattan has 14 altered cameras scattered throughout the city. They freeze you as soon as they spot you, then disappear and turn up somewhere you can’t see. Being caught starts the Freeze Frame side quest. To deal with them, approach each from the rear without entering its view and close its lid. Two are found in each of the seven zones; a final group in Downtown completes the quest.

Quick answer: There are two altered cameras in every zone. Get behind each and press L1 to Shut Camera Lid. Once you’ve handled those, go back to Downtown and disable the last group to complete Freeze Frame.

How the Freeze Frame cameras work

Each zone hides two Instant Photos that point to where its cameras are hiding. You collect a photo, inspect it in your inventory, match the scene to a rooftop or interior, then plan a route that never crosses the camera’s view. Walk in from the front and it freezes you briefly before disappearing, so the reliable trick is to let it catch you once, which resets it, then loop around to its back.

Reaching each camera leans on the full traversal kit: wall-climbing, levitation, gravity alignment, carrying a Charge to a Power Core Station, and burning growth barriers with a fire ability. You need Jesse’s Reach/Levitate abilities for several of them, including both cameras in the Evacuation Zone. Once you are directly behind a camera, press L1 to Shut Camera Lid.

The result is immediate: the related inventory photo becomes a Completed Instant Photo with a green checkmark. Its description identifies it as an image from a paranormal camera that freezes people and tends to run away. You also receive +1 Undefined Reading for the quest. A zone’s camera pair is complete once both photos have checkmarks.

Where to find each Instant Photo

Zone	Instant Photo location
Downtown	Table near the whiteboards inside the Oldest House entrance
Central	Find them on tables beside the Outfit Wardrobe in the FBC main field office.
Evacuation Zone	Raised modular office in front of the Evac Building (printer)
West Incursion Zone	Counter inside the House of Mirrors base
The Park	FBC base room you smash into through the roof
Underpass	The Spire, on tables beneath the covered tents
Unknown	Map table in the “Patterned Field Office” room

Evacuation Zone camera locations

The Evac Building’s loudspeaker repeats evacuation instructions. Nearby, enter the raised modular office supported by stilts and use its printer to get the Evacuation Zone Instant Photo. Examine the image: it shows glowing entities suspended in the air, and prompts you to pinpoint its exact location.

Evac Office — The printer inside the stilted office by the Evac Building spits out the Evacuation Zone Instant Photo you need to locate both cameras. Shown at 00:41 in GosuNoob’s video. Image: Remedy Entertainment

Camera near the Sinkhole (Power Core route)

This camera sits inside a small rooftop building south of the Sinkhole, aimed out through its doorway, and its back door only opens once a Power Core is energized.

Take a Charge from the Power Core Station down the street from the Evac Building.

Carry the Charge up the road and drop it into the wall sockets along the way to lower the security barricades blocking the street.

Levitate over the raised barrier structure, land on the far side, and hit the switch to open the security door.

To keep the Charge from draining, transfer it into the empty cores along your route and refresh its timer. The first core is at the checkpoint barricade; the next is beyond the parking lot, next to the exterior elevators.

Let the camera catch you once so it resets, then haul the Charge to the building and levitate up onto the second-story balcony.

Power the socket beside the locked door with the Charge. Once the door opens, go inside and get behind the tripod, then press L1 to Shut Camera Lid.

Starting inside the structure, descend the stairs to the elevator and ride it down to the bottom floor. Open the double doors and go outside to reset the camera; then retrace your way up and approach it from behind.

Apartment camera near Railyard Street Station

South of Railyard Street Station, a camera is perched atop an apartment building next to a billboard and a massive Mold wall blocking the street. The camera can see the glowing birds clustered at the upper end of the indoor staircase.

Cross the rooftops and scaffolding of the unfinished building toward the multi-story apartment across the street.

Use Levitate to cross the gap, then go in through the open window on the upper level.

Follow the hallway to the cage elevator and press L1 to call it.

Ride the elevator down to ground level, then open the building doors from the inside.

Retrace your route up through the floors and climb the interior stairs to the top.

Step into the lit doorway where the doves are flying, move behind the tripod, and press L1 to Shut Camera Lid.

While waiting on the elevator, duck into the adjoining dark room to watch an Alan Wake TV broadcast and grab “The Master of Many Worlds” collectible.

Downtown camera locations

Upside-down building, Dense Patterning. In the Gravity Town area, the first camera peers through a doorway in a building flipped upside down at the eastern corner of the Dense Patterning. Approach from the rear, use the gravity anomalies to stay stuck to its roof, then break the Ability Barrier hatch with a heavy attack and drop through into the room behind it.

Portable FBC office near the Chasm. A glass partition inside the portable FBC office blocks your way to the second camera, and the doors stay shut until the Power Core has power. In the deserted northern area, collect a Charge at the Power Core Station. Carry it to the inactive rooftop core between the station and office to extend the timer, then take it to the station behind the office and open the doors at the camera’s rear.

Camera #2 Downtown — Once the Power Core opens the glass-walled office, step in behind the tripod to shut this Downtown lid. Image: Remedy Entertainment / via @100Guides

Central camera locations

Watchtower, below Zoe’s office. From Zoe, take the Underground Supply Route east and descend to the lowest point of the Watchtower construction site. On the bottom level, use the scaffolding in the northeast opening to reach the camera’s height, where the birds are frozen. Don’t approach it along the floor: jump and elevate through the hole to the level above, cross the gap, then descend through the hole to emerge behind the camera.

Warehouse rooftop. The second camera watches from a warehouse roof, looking out through the doors. Let it freeze you so it resets, then enter the warehouse, clear the Hiss inside, and open the door at the bottom. Step outside to trigger the reset, head back in, and climb the stairs to the roof so you arrive behind the tripod.

Camera #4 Central — Reaching the warehouse roof from inside puts you behind the Central camera in its doorway. Image: Remedy Entertainment / via @100Guides

West Incursion Zone camera locations

Both West Incursion photos rest on a counter inside the House of Mirrors base. Head into the meeting room on the right to pick up the first Instant Photo from the conference table with the L1 prompt.

Collect first Instant Photo — Grab the first West Incursion Instant Photo from the conference table inside House of Mirrors. Image: Remedy Entertainment / via @Gosunoob

Inspect it before you set off. The image is a high-angle rooftop view down toward the streets, which is your clue for lining up the first camera’s position on the map.

Inspect first photo and map — Inspecting the photo reveals a rooftop-down view that matches the first West Incursion camera spot. Image: Remedy Entertainment / via @Gosunoob

Gravity-anomaly wall, north corner. At the region’s northern end, opposite the parking garage and near the wall’s upper section, jump onto the wall and match your gravity to its surface. Scale up to the raised roof where the camera is positioned, then drop onto the roof from above and land behind it.

Window-cleaning platform near the Museum of Curiosities. Down the road from the Museum of Curiosities, the other camera hangs beneath a window-washing platform. Continue farther along the street and climb the floating bollard and road-barrier platforms, then leap onto the platform behind the camera and shut its lid.

The Park camera locations

Window-washing platform at the Sewers. On leaving the Sewers through the south entrance, you’ll find one camera behind you beneath a window-washing platform. Use a Charge from the FBC Base street section to activate the exterior elevator to the west. From the raised position, jump across the window-cleaning platforms until you come up behind the camera.

Nomad Avenue Station. Descending from street level, you’ll find the second camera on the right side of a corridor filled with Mold. Continue to the main platform, climb up the far side, and use a fire ability on the fungus-covered locked door. Take the path around it and cross the infection floor to reach the camera’s rear.

Underpass camera locations

Island east of the Underpass Vendor. One camera is on the island east of the vendor. To get underneath without triggering it, drop onto the stepping stones below. Stay attached to the ceiling and defeat the Hiss protecting the hole; pass through the opening to get behind the camera.

Unnamed island south of Tubes Island. The other camera sits on the eastern side of the unnamed island below Tubes Island. Cross to the western side and reverse gravity to stand on the wall, which reveals a hole. Keep gravity inverted and carefully fall sideways through the opening and across to the far side, landing behind the camera.

Unknown camera locations

The Unknown photos open up after story progress unlocks the region’s Resonant, during a mission on the northern Field Office island. Continue that mission until you reach the room holding the Fast Travel Door labeled “Patterned Field Office” — the photos are on the map table there.

Mold-covered construction building. Inside a construction building covered in Mold, one camera looks out through an opening in the fungus. Go to the Ability Barrier room, then approach the camera to collect the Completed Instant Photo.

“Wear ‘Em and Wash ‘Em” laundromat. The last camera encountered alone is inside the laundromat at street level, facing the entrance. Let it freeze you, enter the shop, and unlock the door. Leave, then return through the back entrance to reach it from behind. You can also drop in from the rooftop directly into the laundromat.

Containing the final camera cluster in Downtown

Once all 14 individual cameras are shut, Zoe radios you and the objective updates to “Contain all the Cameras in Downtown.” Return to Downtown, climb the central barricade, and switch off the grouped cameras arranged on the platforms and rooftops. Deactivating that last cluster unfreezes the trapped FBC agents and completes the quest, capped off with a “Quest Completed” banner for Freeze Frame.

The reward is the Shiny Pebble artifact, which slowly regenerates your health while you stand inside a Gravity Anomaly, up to a 50% cap. Finishing every camera also feeds the Panopticon Intern trophy, earned for completing all of the Altered Item side stories.