Home made Kino Part 1

[Cool Lights]

Anybody have any ideas on expanding this original design to accompany 4-bank? I know the only housing you can buy at Home Depot or Lowes is a 2-bank.

When I was first investigating fluorescent use in video, before I did my Cool Lights DIY Fluorescent Video Lighting DVD, I just bought a 4 light fixture at Home Depot for about $45 and the electronic ballast was fine from both hum and flicker criteria. It was my very first fixture and whatever I found lacking in it drove me on to other solutions. I don't really like the control that 4 foot tubes offer. I will say though its a great solution for lighting backdrops pretty evenly.

I later showed this in the DVD chapter on "Off the Shelf Solutions" on how you could use a 4 foot / 4 light fixture and how it could be mounted on a stand. I even later modified it to include 2 more bulbs for 6 total by adding more sockets and 1 more ballast. See pictures below.

I wonder how much less you can really make one for? $45 + bulb cost is pretty inexpensive already.

 

[anthony jackson]

how much will you charge me to make me two of thouse set ups.

 

[brokenjack]

I'm a bit late to the party here, but I just built 2 DIY kinos, that kinda look like kinos, and I will post some pics soon, but I just wanted to mention that I built them around a system meant for aquariums, called Coralife. It's great, because you can pull the tubes out easily and use them individually. The ballasts also velcro to the back of the unit. It's very light. I was too lazy to read all of the previous 100+ posts in this thread, so apologies if someone has mentioned the Coralife setup before. I will get some pics up anyway soon I hope.

I started a new thread.
http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?t=103798