Recent content by j1clark@ucsd.edu

A few weeks ago, I binge watched "The 100" TV series. I was initially watched the first episode to see if was of interest, and ended up watching all the episodes available on Netflix. The show is 'packed' with all manner of references ranging from "Lord of the Flies", to "Colossus: The Forbin...

Your Russian words for the day: Здравствуйте (Often abreviated to just Здравс...) Zdravstvuyte "Hello" До свидания! Do svedanya! "Goodbye"

I believe I've read that there is a 'write the story' plugin, that not only writes the story, does a 'Turing Test' on the results, and gives a score of how indistinguishable the result is from what a human writer would write.

Scheduled for a November Release. For those who have never heard of Desmond Doss nor the upcoming film... ---- WWII American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people and becomes the first Conscientious Objector in American history to be...

For those who live/work in the Philadelphia and Cleveland areas, may want to rethink any work plans using wireless mics during the conventions... The FCC has announced that the spectrum allocated for wireless mics is maxed out. The reason given is due to the interest given to the respective...

Realistically you can not compensate for a large number of 'different' light sources by simple Kelvin adjustments. The Sun produces a 'continuous' spectrum, tungsten lights do as well... but fluorescents have 'spikes' which can't really be compensated by the one button adjustment. Here's an...

Listing the 'wattage' does nothing to say how much light to expect at a given distance from the lamp head. Beam angle, and attendant fall off chart will indicate this... and a meter that reads out fc/lx directly will give the necessary information for setting exposure, or indicating more light...

I would recommend the L-308DC. It has the ability to do incident readings, and yield exposure in 'f-stops' and has cine frame rates and degrees for shutter spreeds. It also has a footcandle read out which is useful for gauging how much light you 'really have' and knowing when your camera's image...

If you get the Sekonic L-308DC you can read out in Footcandles or lux, and then get the ratios of the incident reading. My Minolta spot had ratio capability... it's no longer made. I'd imagine the fancier Sekonics would have something like a 'memory' and give +/- ratios in stops or EV values. I...

It should be no more weird than setting your light meter to 200 using a film that has ASA 400 from the manufacturer... and then cut the development by 1 stop's worth to compensate. In 1960 there was a revamp of the ASA (now ISO) system which essentially doubled the spreeds of films across the...

Yes, as far as I'm concerned... the use of the meter is to 'know' apriori where the values fall on the IRE display, at least in the modern digital motion picture world. This is equivalent to taking density readings off a negative and knowing that for a give ASA/ISO the density of the negative is...

Last month I participated in a 77 Hour project under the umbrella of the 48 Hour Project organization. It was 77 hours, which began on Friday 7 pm local time, and ended at 11:59 local time on Monday. Several people I had worked with before that I contacted were not available, and the two people...

I have a Minolta Spot which is no longer made, and use it for 'contrast' checking. I use the Sekonic L-308DC for most motion picture 'basic light' check and that mostly in footcandles... I have calibrated the meters to my lens/camera, which at present is the Blackmagic Pocket, and the Lumix...

I happen to be looking to upgrade some of my audio equipment. While I could probably use some sort of shotgun mic, I'm thinking of upgrading the recording device. I've been looking at the Tascam DR70D and it seems to have 4 XLR imputs, as well as front panel adjustment knobs. I did search the...

You could modify one by drilling a hole beside the original wick, depending on the size of the candle. Or create a gag candle with a small flicker light.