stuckfootage
Well-known member
Hi folks,
I just did a little run-and-gun interview with a Lowel blender on my HVX200 and it worked quite well.
Here are some notes:
Attached it to the camera with a simple hot shoe to 1/4-20 adapter. Worked fine.
Bought the Panasonic battery sled and hooked it to my belt. The sled is somewhat cheapo,
not super easy to swap batteries, but one lasts about 2 hours continuous, which turned out
to be enough for 6 hours of chasing shots. A bit o' gaffers kept it secure.
I also brought along a Cardellini clamp, which worked great for using the light away from
the camera
when there was an opportunity to sit for a while.
The ability to mix two sets of LEDs–tungsten and daylight–is pretty amazing. Being on and
near a concert stage, I put the tungsten set to the max (about 900 lux at 1 meter?)
and added a touch of the daylight LEDs to cool it a bit. I just had to remember
to keep it there and/or where I set them so my color correction isn't nuts.
One really cool thing was a shot of someone using a laptop in the dark. I could quickly
switch over to pure daylight so that the laptop screen didn't look blue. Then I'll set up
a special CC for those shots.
It comes with 3 diffusers. One looks nice. The other two are a bit too mottled for my taste.
The only significant complaint is that turning on the light added some fuzzy electronic
noise to the wireless lav. Annoying, but maybe it was the lav.
All in all, I would say this is a fun on-camera light if you need that sort of thing sometimes.
Cheerio!
Les
P.S.
I guess you can't actually edit the title of your post after you've posted it. Oh well, it's not a mic.
I just did a little run-and-gun interview with a Lowel blender on my HVX200 and it worked quite well.
Here are some notes:
Attached it to the camera with a simple hot shoe to 1/4-20 adapter. Worked fine.
Bought the Panasonic battery sled and hooked it to my belt. The sled is somewhat cheapo,
not super easy to swap batteries, but one lasts about 2 hours continuous, which turned out
to be enough for 6 hours of chasing shots. A bit o' gaffers kept it secure.
I also brought along a Cardellini clamp, which worked great for using the light away from
the camera
when there was an opportunity to sit for a while.The ability to mix two sets of LEDs–tungsten and daylight–is pretty amazing. Being on and
near a concert stage, I put the tungsten set to the max (about 900 lux at 1 meter?)
and added a touch of the daylight LEDs to cool it a bit. I just had to remember
to keep it there and/or where I set them so my color correction isn't nuts.
One really cool thing was a shot of someone using a laptop in the dark. I could quickly
switch over to pure daylight so that the laptop screen didn't look blue. Then I'll set up
a special CC for those shots.
It comes with 3 diffusers. One looks nice. The other two are a bit too mottled for my taste.
The only significant complaint is that turning on the light added some fuzzy electronic
noise to the wireless lav. Annoying, but maybe it was the lav.
All in all, I would say this is a fun on-camera light if you need that sort of thing sometimes.
Cheerio!
Les
P.S.
I guess you can't actually edit the title of your post after you've posted it. Oh well, it's not a mic.
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