Lighting kit for flexibility

superdude

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I'm trying to put together a kit that will be used for both interviews and indoor/outdoor drama. Indoors, I doubt I'll be filming in anything larger than a living room. Also, I plan on shooting against a 10x8 greenscreen. I'm not worried about getting high powered stuff for outside at this moment, as most of my stuff is during the day and I assume I can use reflectors and diffusers.

For hard stuff, I was looking at the Cool Lights CDM 75 and 150 fresnels as I would like to have as many of my lights be natively daylight balanced and as cool a temperature as possible. Unfortunately, I don't think I can afford any HMI/CDM fresnel with any more power than the CL-MF0150 (equivalent to 650w tungsten). Would that be a serious handicap?

For soft stuff, I was looking at getting some Cool Lights flourescent 4 banks. Would a softbox or something like a Lowel Rifa be more FLEXIBLE for my shooting requirements? Would a combo be the best?

The only light I currently own is a tungsten Altman 650L fresnel, so I have plenty to buy. If I go with all daylight balanced, I'll have to drop that Altman. For flexibility, would it be wiser to stick to tungsten setups?
 
If you are going to use and adaptor, the 150 might be cutting it close, especially if you have to gel with CTO to match tungsten.

I am a fan of the Diva 400.


Jason
 
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