35mm adapter lighting solution

[twobitp]

I'm new to the forum so firstly I'd like to say hi, "Hi".

I'd really like some advice on lighting using a 35mm adapter. I have a very basic Lowel kit that I bought second hand, but I know if I get an adapter I'm probably going to want to work with a lot more light.

I'm looking at mounting the Letus Extreme to my HPX170 and I don't really want to spend more than $2000 on lighting to start out. I'm thinking maybe two 1K Fresnels plus an openface 2k (hopefully secondhand) of some sort and adding from there. I don't have much experience with 35mm adapters so any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Marc Villafan]

I'm new to the forum so firstly I'd like to say hi, "Hi".

I'd really like some advice on lighting using a 35mm adapter. I have a very basic Lowel kit that I bought second hand, but I know if I get an adapter I'm probably going to want to work with a lot more light.

I'm looking at mounting the Letus Extreme to my HPX170 and I don't really want to spend more than $2000 on lighting to start out. I'm thinking maybe two 1K Fresnels plus an openface 2k (hopefully secondhand) of some sort and adding from there. I don't have much experience with 35mm adapters so any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Its always or usually a good idea to start off with more light (such as you, with two 1k's and a 2k.)
However, you have to think about how or where you will usually shoot. I am not sure how Canada's electric standards are but in the US, you wouldn't be able to usually run two 1k's on the same circuit in a home. Thus you would have to use a different circuit for each individual light if you choose the lights above. Just a thing to think about on whether you want to deal with that.

 

[twobitp]

We have the same electric standards in Canada. I just figured I could plug one of the lights into my portable power box and use an extension to find an outlet on a separate breaker.

In just a few months I'm going to be involved in shooting a series. It takes place in a hospital and we're shooting in an abandoned school that's being turned into condos. The school is still set up for power and there are about 1000 (no joke) places to draw power. I figure with some super long extension cords I should be fine.

My main concern is that because I'm not too familiar shooting with a 35mm adapter I was curious as to the minimum light I can get away with. Since it takes place in a hospital I'll need mostly very even light, but the show's got kind of a noirish tone so I thought I'd start with hard tungsten lights and use lots of diffusion. Does anyone have an alternative suggestion? I'd like to start with 2-4 lights if I can afford it.

Looking at some other posts I'm thinking about building my own kinos to go with my setup, it almost seems impossible without them for a hospital show. I know I can't afford the real thing, but I really like some of the results I've seen here in the forum. I'm curious about flicker though because I don't assume your regular fluorescent ballast is going to be as good as real kinos.