Light meter and Tape question

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dimanasa

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I am just wondering what is a good light meter? I will be shooting in a light tricky location this upcoming weekend and I need to be sure my light is calibrated well, I am looking for a good but also affordable light meter. Any recommendations? Also, my partner mentioned that you can get some sort of High Contrast Mini DV black and white tape, my project will have a variety of oversaturated colors, kind of like Sin City, I need to shoot some footage in B/W, so I was wondering if something like that exists.

Thank you very much, really appreciate it
 
Unfortunately, I don't believe Kodak makes 7231 panchromatic stock in miniDV format... If you want 'high contrast,' or B/W for that matter, you'll have to do that with the camera settings or in post.
 
Sekonic is affordable in that way that there's two meters in one.
I hope that in some decade in near future they would integrate also color temperature meter in it so it would be 3-in-1. (Light meter tech haven't been developing so rapidly in last years...)
 
Tapes does not work the same way negative does.
The easiest way to achieve b&w is in post production.
You should read a bit more about how video cinematography works.
There're many good and affordable books out there.
Barry Green's book on the DVX100 is extraordinary information even if related to a specific camera.
Rush, from this forum, is also publishing a series of DVDs that should be great fun and very educational.
here's the link: http://www.DigitalCinemaCourse.com

Keep researching and good luck.
 
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It sounds like you really havn't done to much digital work.

I actually did a project that was very Sin City-ish in it's visual design on the DVX100A. What I did was I shot tests of the locations in color then desaturated them in the computer to see how they'd look. When I shot, I kept the color in full so I could keep some aspects in color. I also made sure the master pedistal was pushed way down to give the rich blacks one expects in Black and White. When I got it into post, I simply desaturated the colors and messed with the gamma curve a bit.
 
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