Edith blazek

Update: I cut the orions down to 2 and have finally come up with flags and frames to have 1x Matthews 40x40 kit 1x Matthews scrim and flag kit 1x 8x8 unbleached muslin 1x 8x8 china silk 1x 8x8 matthbounce/black Let me know what changes I can make.

What size reflectors do you use with the 4x4 and 6x6s?

*Storaro gels

Alright, here's an update, I dropped the Geminis and asteras for more 675s and added digital sputnik apollo 1s (they're basically the ds1s but more refined) as the battery powered light for when I need that and added the c-go reflector kit so here is the kit, let me know what I can do differently (keep in mind the stuff here would be rented out as in my area no one has a lot of the stuff here) 4x Prolycht Orion 675 fs (close to being equivalent to a 5k fresnel tungsten, which it's marketed as) 4x digital sputnik apollo 1 (brighter than a 300w tungsten but less bright than a 650w fresnel, marketed as being equivalent to a 500w tungsten) Lightbridge crls c drive+ kit Full set of rosco storage gels 20x20 negative fill Also, can you fold fabrics like unbleached muslin to use it on smaller frames?

Alright, if I was to get the astera titan and NYX's, how many kits should I get of each? I honestly have left them out now since it would get me into the 10s of thousands of dollars to have enough replace all of the lights on location say in an office, at least if the cinematographer for the dropout is to be believed.

Hello, so I want to have a set of rgb lights like astera titans I can use as practicals to replace existing practicals but the problem is that it seems like it can get very expensive very quickly, even using cheaper RGB tube lights like the quasars, nanlites, or amarans, so I want to go about this so I only get what I need. So that leaves me asking to anyone that has done this, how many lights did you use to replace practicals on location or set? And before you ask, I'm not sure the rental houses in my area would have a sufficient amount of titans or any such light for this, so please help.

Hey do you have a full frame camera you can test the coverage of these lenses?

Hi, can you fold say a 12x20 or 20x20 piece of unbleached muslin to use on a smaller frames like a 12x12 or 8x8 or 6x6? Also, I was thinking of having a kit of lights I could use as practicals like astera titans or NYX's to replace existing practicals, the problem is scale, I realize I would need way more than a single kit of each's worth so that leaves me asking, can I get away with gelling practicals with color gels for that effect?

Hello, does anyone know of anyone i can go to that has or is detuning atlas orion anamorphic lenses, like how Northwest camera co and duclos lenses are detuning canon cnes?

Still available?

https://www.cined.com/sumolight-sumolaser-first-look/ Hello, so hearing about the new sumolight sumolaser, I want to know everyone's thoughts on it. It was announced at cinegear recently and so far from the specs, it sounds WAY too good to be true. Like they put this as being equivalent to an 18k hmi, which after hearing it has a 2.6 degree beam angle while the arrimax 18k in it's spot mode has a 10 degree beam angle, I was skeptical it could actually be useful. So I decided to do some rudimentary calculations that sort of follow the inverse square law of every doubled distance getting a quarter of the output, but instead of distance it's for beam angle (this is just my attempt to coincide the inverse square law with beam angle as originally it would imply an omnidirectional light, but I tested using varying beam angles on the Arri photometrics calculator comparing the arrimax 18k in it's spot and flood modes and this seems to work out but I realize this doesn't account for falloff of a light so if I'm wrong and it doesn't work like that or if I did the math wrong let me know ) so with this, I had the sumolaser with a 2.6 degree beam angle and the 18k with a 10 degree beam angle, doing division I have a beam that is 3.8461538461538x narrower than the other, divide that by .25 (for every distance doubling, you get a quarter intensity at least if my idea that inverse square law also applies to beam angle) you'd get 15.384615384615th of your original output if you wanted to compare these lights beam to beam, so that leaves us with 9750 lux at 100m if this light had the same beam angle as the arrimax 18k, which comparing that to the arrimax 18k, that gets us 2140 lux, if I did my math correctly, if this light had the same beam angle, the sumolaser should still be 4 times as bright, while being dimmable, less than a 10th the weight, less than a 100th the wattage, and if they stick to it, less than a 10th the price, the only thing I can hope for is that the quality of the light is any good, let me know your thoughts.

Bumping this, Please let me know if you have ever tried the lomo foton-a front anamorphic zoom on either the red monstro in the 8k 6:5 mode.

What is your power budget?

Hello, does anyone know if the lomo foton-a front anamorphic zoom covers the 8k 6:5 mode on the red monstro or v-raptor?

hello, does anyone know the focal length or just what lens was used on this shot? This shot, the opening shot of the sound of music? I know they used Cooke lenses on this movie that could cover the 65mm Todd ao format used for this film, but I don't know if they used a special lens for this shot would've went wider than what the 30mm Cooke double panchro could do, so if anyone has more information on what lens was used for this shot let me know

But seriously if you could tell me what it was like lighting night exteriors with skypanels versus generally more powerful hmis? that would really be cool. Did you need more skypanels than you did hmis?

Yeah my plan was to just assemble a frame from speedrail to the size I need, I'm just not sure which type of diffusion or bounce to go with, I have my eyes on unbleached muslin though.

Also, were you just testing anamorphic capture formats or did you test out opengate 1.89:1?

As an update to this Im not doing the wasp par and instead went for another Prolycht 675 so here is the updated list so imagine it like 2 Arri m8s or 5k tungsten fresnels 2x prolycht orion 675 w/ fresnel (it does seem to line up to the claim of being roughly equivalent to a 5k tungsten if just below it and it lines up with an Arri m8 so I'm satisfied) and lantern. These would be used with the lightbridge crls c100 kit 2x litepanels Gemini 1x1 hard (these didn't make equivalent claims but according to their company provided photometrics and beam angle they seem to line up with a 400w hmi like a joker with the frosted fresnel lens) Practical/other film lights 1x astera titan 8 light kit 1x astera helios 8 light kit 2x astera nyx 8 bulb kit with impact octacool fixtures 2x litegear literibbon cine five 5m the full set of rosco Storaro gels. A 12x20 black textile If there are improvements I can make on this let me know

Oh wow nice, I was planning on getting a raptor so good to know, thanks!

Do you have a full frame camera that you can test coverage of this lens with and if you do could you test coverage?

Hi, so I found a set of ultrascope anamorphic lenses going for a really good price and despite the lenses being advertised for super 35, the spherical blocks of the 40, 50, and 85mm in the set cover full frame, but the thing I don't know is whether the anamorphic blocks with the spherical blocks also cover full frame in those focal lengths. So that's why I wanted to ask, has anyone tried either and or the 40mm, 50mm, and 85mm ultrascope anamorphics on a full frame camera like the Alexa LF or mini LF or just any full frame camera and if you did, does it cover full frame?

Oh I was definitely going to rent it out, that's why I'm looking at stuff like the asteras.

I was gonna base my grip roughly on what lights I get while making sure I could still use them if I do upgrade as on one hand I don't want to get crank stands when I only need combos for example but on the other hand I don't want to have to radically change my grip kit if I do upgrade my kit. And though I didn't mention it, I understand that negs are going to be my golden ticket and that my most used piece of lighting equipment will probably be a large black textile.

Hi, before we start, my main lighting inspirations consist the Hannibal tv series, Euphoria, and the works of David Fincher and Rina Yang for having an ambient based exposure with top or backlight, and movies such as Mandy, Suspiria (1973), Only God Forgives, and the works of Vittorio Storaro and Benoit Debie for having bold splashes and tints of color. Basically I'm trying to compile a set of gear for achieving stylized lighting of a set and my method was to mostly lean on practicals or supplemented practicals with a top light for ambience with a hard backlight. Keep in mind I have only so much power to work with as I'm putting all of this in my car with a small generator so basically I'm limited on space and power and those are my major cost factors for me as I need the space for other things as if I had all the space and power in the world I would probably just use a bunch of arrimax 18ks, Wendy lights, softsuns or God knows how many digital sputniks but I don't have that so I have to make sure with what I can do. For the film lights I would make sure that the company provided photometrics actually line up with the claims made as for equivalency and my source for verification was Arris photometric calculator as I could input distance and approximate beam angle to see what the actual equivalents are. The lights I have chosen for my kit are there to fill in roles for other equivalent lights but at lower wattages and with hopefully good light quality and not just output. And keep in mind these lights would be in near constant rotation in terms of what role they would be playing on set. Also, another factor would be how well I can rent them or resell them for which is why I'm looking at the lights here. 1x hive wasp plasma par 1000 (equivalent to an Arri m18 and considering that light is reputed to be brighter than some 2.5ks it lives up to that but it's nowhere near a 10k tungsten like once claimed at trade shows and on some sites by hive) 1x prolycht orion 675 w/ fresnel (it does seem to line up to the claim of being roughly equivalent to a 5k tungsten if just below it and it lines up with an Arri m8 so I'm satisfied). These would be used with the lightbridge crls c100 kit 2x litepanels Gemini 1x1 hard (these didn't make equivalent claims but according to their company provided photometrics and beam angle they seem to line up with a 400w hmi like a joker with the frosted fresnel lens) Practical/other film lights 1x astera titan 8 light kit 1x astera helios 8 light kit 2x astera nyx 8 bulb kit with impact octacool fixtures 2x litegear literibbon cine five 5m And the full set of rosco Storaro gels. If there are improvements I can make on this let me know.