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There it is installed on the ballast. Subtle but effective.

Prolycht and dedolight announce lighting technology collaboration Prolycht and dedolight are delighted to announce a new technology collaboration. Prolycht is the innovator of the new Hyperlight Color Engine, which utilizes the computer controlled mix of six color LED emitters to achieve an...

Go Big Or Go Home! Huge Black Friday offer from Prolycht! Buy 2 Orion 300 FS lights get a 3rd for free! Offer good through next Friday, December 3. Jump on this deal. The Orion 300 FS LED full spectrum spotlight utilizes the industry-leading 6-color LED Hyperlight engine...

In a pinch I've done the white cyc with green light and it's a real pain to get a good key. You need to supply a proper greenscreen solution, which can easily be a stretched curtain. There are LED-illuminated space lights. And once you install them in the ceiling along with flags to keep them...

I've seen such curtain walls and the problem was always stretching them out so that the folds in the fabric didn't cause shadowing that made for a bad comp. Perhaps you could incorporate some sort of segmented rod "stretcher" solution near the bottom to help flatten out the green screen. Also...

It really comes down to what type of content the greenscreen will be used for. I still say the cleanest, easiest way to do the greenscreen is to make some lightweight foam panels covered in green cloth, put a cyc-style curve at the base, and paint a few sheets of plywood green for the floor...

This may be an easier way to consume & compare some of this data. It's a slide I already had handy. Note that with a similar beam angle and only around 65% the power draw the Orion 300 FS is about 1/3 brighter than the ARRI Orbiter at 5600K and 3-meters. If you want to compare it to a...

Ahem, may I add to the mix the Prolycht Orion 300 FS? It is an RGBACL light but the illumination levels are not lower than some other LED emitter configurations. In fact it rather blows some of them away while increasing color saturation and accuracy.

The new Orion 300 FS from Prolycht Lighting is an RGBACL LED full spectrum spotlight. It can accept a variety of accessories such as a softbox, lantern, projector lens with gobos, and our new adjustable fresnel. In fact the Orion 300 FS with 2x Fresnel is the first focusing full spectrum...

I would be quite concerned using an anamorphic lens on anything other than a PL mount. Rotational accuracy is critical in anamorphic, as the squeeze & stretch will wreak havoc with the image is out of alignment. And many twist-lock lens mounts allow a slight bit of rotation even after the lens...

What was happening Nov. 5, 2019 that there were more than 26K people on DVXuser?

I think that any frame can be used for any reason, as long as the filmmaker tries to utilize it for a purpose. Robert Altman liked anamorphic for a lot of his films, including comedies like M*A*S*H. It's just a tool like anything else. The original points behind the use of larger formats and...

Ever seen Billy Wilder's The Apartment? Any format can be used for any subject. It's all in how you choose to use it. Personally one thing I find about anamorphic is that it can be great for showing two people in frame for a fairly intimate two-shot. Spielberg did this a lot in Indiana Jones...

Nice try. We all know that's your daily wear.

That's because back in the day you HAD to, not just because you couldn't load in stuff on a card (no such thing back then) but also because there was so much variation in the devices themselves. The level of precision control in manufacturing available today is worlds apart from what was...

Hey John, I can't speak for all manufacturers but I can sure speak for Panasonic. We absolutely do test the finished cameras to determine Dynamic Range. In fact I personally got in a bit of trouble back when the EVA1 was announced but final specs not yet announced because I published a picture...

Roger Macie was the king of tweaking those pots to "fix" the Sony betacam look, which basically meant taking it away from the preferred Japanese look to the preferred American look (the Japanese like things COLORFUL and SHARP). I worked at AbelCine, which did in fact conquer the VariCams with...

The simple fact is that most people don’t know how to use their tools. They may understand in theory but in practice it’s a glancing knowledge. In the early Beta days a camera “menu” was perhaps three screens of basic choices. There were a couple of companies that made a business of opening up...

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Carol Reed directed The Third Man, with Welles appearing as an actor (and rewriting some of his dialogue, notably the "cuckoo clock" speech). Excellent choice, btw. he photography in that film is both superb and definitely a character in the storytelling.