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Hi guys,

 

First thank you for reading this post.

I'm going to film a project where the main light is from a lighter in the total darkness :o

There are different scenes where the light will be created from the sparks of the flint only :huh:

To make everything more difficult is that the lighter has seen in the frame.

 

My question is:

 

how can I increase the light from the sparks especially in sync with them?

 

I was thinking to use a battery's car(shorting positive and negative pole together) but how can I sync lighter and it together?

 

Do anyone has a better idea?

 

 

 

All the best!

 

Michele

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I'm not sure who makes them, but I've seen flicker boxes which look at a source in the frame and dim up and down accordingly via a small photometric sensor. Something like this, I'd say, can work for the effect your looking for.

 

 

or you can build it yourself:

 

(http://www.hauntedillinois.com/lightflicker.php)

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