Saturday, April 16, 2011

PVC NAB 2011:  Camlight Focusing LED Studio Lamp

Bruce A Johnson | 04/16- 04:49 PM

A Clever Design Gives Some Focus To A Flat-Front LED Lamp

PVC NAB 2011:  Camlight Focusing LED Studio Lamp from ProVideo Coalition on Vimeo.

You find some of the most interesting things at the smaller booths at NAB.  Here’s a new take on focusing an LED lamp from Camlight.

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Saturday, April 16, 2011

PVC NAB 2011:  Arri L7T LED Fresnel Light

Bruce A Johnson | 04/16- 02:08 PM

Big, Bright And Cool To The Touch

PVC Arri L7 LED light v2 from ProVideo Coalition on Vimeo.

Arri has been a leading name in production gear for almost 100 years.  Now they are taking the next leap into LED fresnel lighting with the L7 series.

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Friday, April 15, 2011

PVC NAB 2011: Litepanels Sola ENG Light

Bruce A Johnson | 04/15- 08:43 PM

A Lotta Light for 30 Watts

PVC:  Litepanels Sola ENG Light from ProVideo Coalition on Vimeo.

Sunguns have come a long way in the last five years.  Here’s Litepanels latest - with an actual Fresnel lens, focusing and a dimmer to boot.

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Friday, February 18, 2011

iPhone Apps: The Short List for the Average Cinematographer

Art Adams | 02/18- 04:57 PM

Of all the apps I’ve found, these are the most helpful.

It seems everyone and their sister’s friend’s cousin has made a list of indispensable cinematography iPhone apps. Now it’s my turn. Let’s see how original I am.

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Sunday, February 06, 2011

And Then The Camera Spun Around And Bit Me On The Ass.

Bruce A Johnson | 02/06- 09:13 PM

An embarrassing admission from a seasoned shooter

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Meet the Sony HDW-790, a 2/3” high-def ENG/EFP camera that records to HDCam (read: Beta-shell) cassettes.  This camera - and its two brothers - are the day-to-day field-shooting workhorses for Wisconsin Public Television, where I have worked for the last 23 years.  Lately (as in the last 9 years or so) my career path has taken me a bit away from the daily shooting grind, but I still fill in the photography gaps now and again,  Keeps you young, dontcha know. 

Except when it tries to kill you.

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Sunday, February 06, 2011

Courage Under Lighting

Kendal Miller | 02/06- 02:30 PM

A case study in set lighting for a music video. We deconstruct a set and examine the lighting approach.

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Recently I had the opportunity to direct a music video for a local Chicago band called Flatfoot 56. On this particular project, the narrative would be completely shot on a sound stage and the performance piece of the band would be shot at one other location. Lighting the performance location wound up taking roughly eight hours to rig, utilizing around 22 heads and drawing about 23,000 watts. So where did we end up and how did we get there? Come and take a ride along with us; our first stop is in Gary Indiana. Read on…

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Friday, January 21, 2011

What $300 Buys These Days

Bruce A Johnson | 01/21- 03:30 PM

One of those “I sure hope this is true” stories…

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OK, folks, have a look at “Lazy Teenage Superheroes,” a funny, really watchable (and slightly NSFW for language) 13-minute riff on science fiction:

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Tuesday, January 04, 2011

The LED Camera Light Shootout…

Bruce A Johnson | 01/04- 11:59 AM

...that I wish I had gotten to first!

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A guy named Frank Glencairn, whom I think is in England somewhere, has gone and done what we’ve all thought about: 

A shootout between five inexpensive LED sunguns.

(OK, so maybe the term “inexpensive” doesn’t quite stretch to cover the Litepanels LP Micro, but I digress.)

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