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EatsTooMuchJam
Location: Minneapolis, MN Gender: Male Total Likes: 24 likes
Squirty "Stickybuns" von Cherrypants
| | | | | | | Re: Lights! < Reply # 2 on 11/8/2005 6:51 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | The handheld sun guns are nice for a few minutes, but they don't last long. As long as you only want to shoot a few minutes of video all is well, I suppose. I've been messing around with a Bolex H16 reflex that I just bought and some Tri-X I pushed two stops. I found that a cityscape at night was still a little too dark even at f/1.9 and 16fps. I might try again at 8fps, but it'll still most likely be too dark to be usable. The shutter speed doesn't change as much as one might hope. Candles were similarly too dark. The old lights inside one of our semi-active buildings were just fine, though, and produced a very nice picture - and the lights in one of our local active tunnels were sufficient as well. Having a friend light me with nothing but a flashlight yielded some very dark unusable footage. I still have some more stuff to play with, though. I have my 3M candlepower portable sun which is amazingly bright, but limited as I mentioned before. I also have a small rechargeable Sunpak light that I bought at a thrift store which is astonishingly bright for its size, but it only lasts around 2-3 minutes total. At least it's a lot lighter than the portable sun. Another thing I've meant to play with, and which I probably will soon, is rigging up a motorcycle battery or two in a backpack to some car headlamps set up with some form of handles/stands. The batteries last a decent amount of time and some of the brighter headlamps are amazingly bright. Putting the heavy batteries in a backpack will make them a lot easier to lug around. Has anybody else played with that at all for film or DV work?
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| MacGyver
Location: St Paul, Minnesota Gender: Male Total Likes: 0 likes
"Someone go find me a paperclip, a D-cell battery, and a cheese grater"
| | | Re: Lights! < Reply # 11 on 11/22/2005 6:08 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | When I saw it last, it still looks like just another innocent yellow sungun, with a wire coming out of the handle. The real magic is the bulb (which I guess is being upgraded to 100w) and the FREAKING HUGE motorcycle battery in the backpack that ETMJ is cursed to schlep around with him if he wishes to use this light. I think a slightly improved system could be devised that uses a modified small frame pack to hold the battery in a more comfortable and rigid manner. 50 lbs is not heavy for a frame pack, but it's downright painful in a common school bookbag (IMHO). A framepack solution could possibly even be modified to include some kind of steadycam in front. I hear the worst problem with steadycams is the weight. It'll still be heavy, but you'll have all that lead on your back to help balance things out. Then again, this would be a downright insane lighting/shooting getup for the places this thing is designed for. Then again, maybe not... (ETMJ is somewhat crazy like that)
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