Home made Kino Part 1

[Zoomforce]

[joachim]

any problems with flicker or noise?
I like your setup, looks very neat,
how much were the parts?

[Guest]

Ohh,

That looks sweet!

Very good design. Is that a Matthews baby plate? What a great idea!

More pics! (If possible. I know you're busy, so it's greatly appreciated).

By the way, I found the GE bulbs that one of the production studios uses in place of the Kino Flos. I found it at a LAMPS PLUS in town. They're the GE F40SPX35 bulbs. They're T12 bulbs and they are rated at 3500 Kelvin with a CRI of 93 (I believe). The GE F40SPX30 is 3000 K, but I've heard the 3500K renders indoor lighting better. Am I making any sense or am I just rambling. ;D

[Zoomforce]

Total cost was about $50US.

Thats an Avenger baby plate. Hands down, on ever item I have seen, Avenger makes better stuff than Matthews.

No Flicker and no noise.. due to the Electronic Ballast. The first identical light I made a few weeks ago I shot with for 12 hours and it worked fantastic.

[Guest]

Great work.

Avenger baby plate. Sounds good. I'll look them up. Thanks!

By the way, do you put the light on a regular light stand? Which stand? Is it top heavy? Do you have a pic of the light mounted to the stand?

[Barry_Green]

With a plate like that you'd have to use a stand with a rotating grip head. Otherwise you couldn't tilt the light into position.

[Rogue Crew]

Jarred, that looks sweet! Quick questions. Did you line the reflector trough with foil? The trough looks like its supposed to have ends on it - did you leave them off on purpose? Why the tape?

[Zoomforce]

tape is to knock down any reflections from other light sources.

There was no ends, thats the way it came.

And no foil, the white gloss does a pretty good job of bouncing by itself.

[Zoomforce]

[quote author=Barry_Green link=board=lighting;num=1092848834;start=0#5 date=08/24/04 at 16:22:31]With a plate like that you'd have to use a stand with a rotating grip head. *Otherwise you couldn't tilt the light into position.[/quote]

if you didnt have a c stand, you can use a regular stand with a gobo/knuckle grip head. I use it on a Cstand with a gobo arm for the most flexibility.

[skippyfetus]

Awesome Idea, I've thought about doing that before. How many degrees kelvin are those phillips bulbs? I'd like to know what the footcandles or lux is about 9 or 10 feet away.

I bet someone that has a machine shop could take those parts and make a large square soft light that's like ten bulbs accross.

Why are Kino's so goddam expensive?