Recent content by zimzum

Can someone tell me what minus green corrects n vision or other household flo bulbs 1/8, quarter, half? zim

Can you use any type of micro fiber such as the ones sold in home depot for polishing a car or do you need to use a specific type made for camera lenses? zim

jeeez I wish I didnt rush buying lights, I needed them quick last yr and just used them for about ten hrs.I pulled them out of storage today and after a few hrs 1 bulb went out!

I just tried to remove a uv filter off my old canon gl1 and its not budging, so I am guessing its cross threaded. Can anyone tell me how to go about removing it without harming the the camera lens threading if thats possible? zim

Does anyone know what company has a gel to bring 2800k household bulbs up to 3200k? Do diy hardware stores sell gaffers tape or is this a specialty item that you can only get at video/photography supply store? Also is there any type of tape beides gaffers that can be used to tape a gel to...

Has anyone here seen directions or have directions on making an eggcrate? I have britek softboxes and they do not sell eggcrates for them,plus thier pretty exspensive .

Is there anyway to get rid of that orange skin tone that fake tanners produce and give more of a brown appearance? some type of gel on the lights perhaps?

Is there any way besides useing an nd gel to stop down light coming from a soft box?

Does anyone know the color temp of worklights you find at hope depot ,lowes ect...? Thanks!

the only book ive found so far is" Video Camera Techniques" by gerald millerson, id like to find some other books and vids that deal with things like making objects look bigger or smaller then they are in reality, effects , camera settings , angles ect... if you know of any, please list em! zim

im selling my copy of video lighting magic made easy(3 disks , near 4 hrs of tips and budget lighting setups) heres a link to whats on the vid, pm me if interested http://www.elitevideo.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=60

im selling my copy of video lighting magic made easy(3 disks , near 4 hrs of tips and budget lighting setups) heres a link to whats on the vid, pm me if interested http://www.elitevideo.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=60

im looking for a used rain cape/ slicker that will fit a sony hdr-fx1 thanks zimzum

ive just gotten a sony hd cam and you can see every line wrinke and makeup problem magnified !does anyone have any thoughts on the tiffen soft fx series or can you reccomend another. i dont want a dreamy scene look , just something to smooth the skin and make the subject look as atractive as...

id like to take my britek floods down a stop and ive just started looking into scrims to acomplish this. the problem im having is all i see are round scrims , do they make square scrims and are they even supposed to be attached on square floods under a softbox? if so how do you go about doing...