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puredrifting said:
Bingo! Have been doing that this week.

Problem is that I sometimes interview and do intros with people like Peter Bogdanovich and Leonard Maltin. For both of them, their glasses are their "image". You try to get Peter to remove his glasses, good luck.
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A. Nice name drop
B. Completely jealous.
 
puredrifting said:
Damn! We paid $2,500.00 ea. for our two ReflecMedias a couple of years ago. That is a killer price. Nice find.

Dan
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Yeah dude,
And the microlite holds it's own, for sure. Basically like a small rail system for smaller guys like HV20, HV30, or in our case the Sony SR11. Trying to work up some footage with it, I'll post in here when I get anything.

All they did to drop the price so much was leave out that black material on the back of the Chromatte. I had people ask if that would make it harder to key, or easier for light to pass through, but it acts exactly the same as our 10'x12' curtain with the backing.
 
Barry is correct

The arms , hair and clothing on both models distinctly shows a edge (black halo). That key would be unacceptable for the work I do. Would suit the weather girl look at a pinch and even then I would not be proud of it.
 
Honestly, I'm not sure what you mean. If you have the correct ring size for your lens, that black halo should be basically eliminated. The problem is that the optimal placement for the LEDs would be directly on axis in your lens... but since that's not possble, it has to be the smallest size that will fit without vignetting. I have heard about the black halo a few times, but never had anyone have a problem keying with this stuff once they had it set up correctly. But it won't work for everyone, i guess
 
RandomHero said:
The system works like this: There are thousands of tiny reflector beads in the Chromatte curtain that comes with the system. You get a green or blue LED Litering to mount on your camera. This is a directional item, meaning if it's on, and even a foot away from you, the curtain will still look gray basically. However, once you or the camera look through the center of it, the entire curtain is blue or green, and you can adjust the intensity of it via the included dimmer switch.
Now, the gray 'halo' some people mention most often comes from incorrect placement of camera to talent or talent to backdrop. Your talent must be at least 3 feet off the backdrop, and your camera (litering) must be at least 10 feet off your talent. This helps eliminate most of the glow back or halo you would see. Halo is also created by having a ring too large for your lens. Ideally the colored light would come from the center of your view, but since you can't do that with a lens, you want it as close around your lens as possible. For smaller cameras, the new Microlite system helps greatly.
For glasses wearing talent, just try to make sure your camera is as far away from the talent as possible while still achieving the look you desire. This is the same for using teleprompters. You can offset your camera just a little, and from 10-12 feet away they can still be reading the prompter and look basically like they're reading into the camera.
With the overall price reduction of the systems, Reflecmedia overall is an amazing green screen solution, but it's still not going to be for everyone. I just happen to like it a lot :0) Hope this helped,
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We just picked up a demo package by Reflecmedia, to test it out for our VFX work. We plan on doing the test tomorrow and I can post up our footage, but after watching the above video link I am totally skeptical it will work for us. Almost every key shot you can see a gray ring outlining the talent. This doesn't look very good and to be honest is not acceptable in almost everything we do. I hope this isn't what we see tomorrow.
 
Since this thread began, I have gone back to using mostly just regular green screen, lit with LEDs. Too many people I have been shooting wear glasses.

FWIW

Dan
 
I have been using two of the FLolight LED500s but I also did one with my own Cool Lights LED 600s as well. It works best with two spots for a smaller screen and two floods for a larger although I have done them with one of each, it just takes fine tuning the output and placing the lights the correct distance from the screen.

Are there any PAR LEDs on the market? If so, I haven't seen them.

Dan
 
There are lots of meanings of "par".


http://www.led-par64.com/

But those types aren't very useful for video / film work. We've evaluated some and they are weak and more meant for colored and flashing theatrical and disco lighting.

Par can also mean "hmi par" types. There isn't any LED fixture on the market yet though to really replace a large HMI par.
 
Since the majority of the time lighting is spent lighting the background, I try to shave off as much time as I can and Reflecmedia has been pretty helpful. I don't wear glasses so I'm fortunate there, although I think just getting the camera back further and turning up the controller may help. Lately I've been using a real time keyer in the Edirol V-440HD mixer switcher to key HD in real time, it works out rather well with Reflecmedia, I've put together 5 or 6 videos now with the Reflecmedia system, shot with a variety of cameras, from the Canon EOS 5D Mark II, the Panasonic HPX500, and now I'm mostly using the Sony Z7U. Here's the vids.
 
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