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Going through my store this afternoon - I opened what I thought was an empty case and found this - the Ampex A CVR-300 version of the Sony Betacam I bought in the mid 90s, when I could afford it - I think it was by then 5 years old. The price new in 1989 was $30,000+ I think I paid about ten...

LED sources and blue gel looses huge amount of light. If you want the background lit properly then you need power to generate enough light. As in mains power and silent gens. The stage type RGBWUA kit does blue very well in high powers. A quick experiment shows my video white led kit is very...

I've always been a bit reluctant to do freebies - and good causes rarely got any action from me, but my old boss from years ago when I worked for a larger company is heavily involved with a church, and I promised I'd help if anything in my line came up. Should have known better because a week...

I stupidly forgot to check and recorded to two gopros in 30fps and only noticed when I tried to add the files to a premiere 25fps project and got the warning. I used media encoder to convert but the new files are still too long and sync is impossible. The 30fps file is of course much too long...

Well - sitting here looking at the really well used G2 version - I think you don't need to even worry. I really don't worry about mine at all - I have over a dozen, and turning this one over The back has big paint chips down to the metal, the corners are worn and very shiny, the display window...

It says you have to use heat shrink paste to replace the light card - in the service section.

I've never found full size gobo projection much use on miniature sets, far too coarse, so that's going to be tricky.

I took a quick picture of an E6 I had handy, and the B6 is the flexible version - they're very small. If it had been the black version, you'd never have seen it at all against my shirt.

You had manual control - great. You could have exposed for the highlights and tried to maybe pull a bit out of the shadows, but lighting is an art too - and what looks good to the eye might not work. The show Im doing at the moment uses lots of pink light and getting face tones to look correct...

I'm amazed! The lighting guy is an idiot for doing his primary role - lighting the band in a sympathetic and interesting way. He did what you asked. He didn't go brighter did he? I do this kind of thing all the time, as a production manager, and the problem with your shoot was because your...

60W ordinary lamps are going to need running from dimmers, and some (if you hire or borrow) will not dim such a low wattage - and need a load light to make it reliable. So probably the simplest method would be to hire in an Avo or Chamsys laptop based system, DMX to the dimmers and then the...

UV light comes in various forms now. The traditional type was quite a short wavelength - (have a read of this topic, on a theatrical forum, as it's a common feature) http://www.blue-room.org.uk/index.php?showtopic=65903 The discharge types produce hardly any visible light - so clearly the video...

The Dedo website is pretty useless on detail - so I'd suggest looking at the label - 110/230V is good, 110/120 no good. We're also 50Hz, not 60 but that doesn;t matter for lighting normally. Beware the adaptors - if the product has a switched mode PSU, as loads do now - then usually it's one...

Some of the broadcast boys went to try out the new HDC-4300 Sony camera, with the new Fujinon 4K ⅔@ B4 lenses at Pinewood Studios recently. Got to say we were all impressed. The set had the more commonly used Sony 4K kit with the larger sensors, but everyone was pretty excited by 4K images with...

Did anyone comment on the haze mentioned in the first post? I don't see any. Haze would leave visible light tracks - exactly what this setup doesn't need.

Trouble with bounce is that if you are using an ellipsoidal spot to enable the gobo to work, then the angles might not work, and uplight looks a bit strange. Ideally, you want to mimic the gobo, so a hard source is required, and a bit of care to match up the angles of the shadows. The fallout...

While LED light levels and power are creeping up, at the moment we are looking at equivalents to the 500W discharges at the moment. 1.2K and 2.5K HMI equivalents will be available soon I suspect, but until people like Arri and ETC produce them, the Chinese much cheaper versions will fall behind...

Yep - distance between the subject and the green screen is really important. The subject lights are very side on in your drawing - you will get some butterfly shadows from the nose. I'm not sure that the lighting for the screen is going to be bright enough - those CFLs are pretty weak. I'd agree...

Luck, pure luck! Hoping the software can help you is a big gamble. Consistent colour and no shadows are the big thing. It's possible, but orientation is important if the sun moves and shadows appear. Gold reflectors can be useful for fill on the subject, but my outside keying attempts were...

I wanted to ask a question about using a black magic camera on a job - one had been offered, but not having used one before I had a query - so I registered on the external forum site. Trouble was registration needed approval, and it didn't happen. I used my own old camera for the job today, and...