camera protection when welding

Darkeyesuk2000

Darkeyesuk2000

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Iam shooting an instructional dvd on welding, and i need to do some close up work. any ideas how i should go about this, in terms of exposure and so forth, i need to be able to shoot clearly exactly what the werlder is welding. Without my footage getting over exposed.
 
Personally, I would utilize some welder's glass in front of the lens. I shot some footage of the sun recently, and to get detail I used welder's glass (the dark green glass that goes into the welder's helmet). I found some at True Value and just taped it onto the lens of my camera. Granted, I was shooting with my little camera (gs-300), and if you were shooting with anything with a big lens it wouldn't work unless you could find glass that covered more area. The footage comes out green, but color correction can fix that. Or at least it worked for me. good luck.
 
I recently shot some welding footage.

I recently shot some welding footage.

It was arc welding of chromolly steel, along with grinding, and propane post-heating. Lots of sparks in some scenes from the grinding.

I used an HVX-200 and a polarizing filter, shot as DVCPRO50 in 408i and never got closer than about 8 to 10 feet. That may well have been a foolish move, but I've used the camera often since then, in both bright sunlight and at night, and there are no signs of burnout or other affects.

If you're really worried, perhaps a darker filter would ease your worries.
 
When CCD cameras first came out (circa 1984?) I shot some footage of a guy welding with an arc welder. I stopped down enough to expose correctly and got some extreme close-ups, front of lens inches away from the welding. The footage was cool and very dramatic, however, I pitted the front element of the lens with the sparks from the welder. Use a UV or other filter to protect the lens.

Rich Robbins
 
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