Jason Antman <jantman@earthlink.net> writes: > Rob says: > "Video spots are generally not bright enough to affect film. They barely > get the exposure up enough for video and make for an easy to white balance > situation." > > Rob, who were you working with on video? Where I work (granted, we don't do > weddings) we use hot lights from 500 watts at the small end to (obviously > for only very big events, not small weddign-ish work) 12,000 watts! We use > the same stuff the networks use for 35mm cinema. And that's certainly enough to affect the film *I* shoot, yes indeed! There's a reason film production companies sometimes arrive with a truckload of lights *and* an air conditioning truck when they work on location. > Also, David, I guess there's a lot of confusion here. As far as I've learned > in the industry, you only use a camera-mounted light for news-type shots, > when you don't have the time to setup a stand light, or need to be able to > run fast! I'd certainly hope so, yes! I got the impression from the initial question that he was talking about a single light, perhaps mounted directly on the camera, but it's not explicit so maybe they'd really be using a more complex setup. Even if not mounted on the camera, a single small light is going to give very harsh light, not generally appropriate for wedding photos (and not very forgiving on exposure, either). -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b@dd-b.net / New TMDA anti-spam in test John Dyer-Bennet 1915-2002 Memorial Site http://john.dyer-bennet.net Book log: http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/Ouroboros/booknotes/ New Dragaera mailing lists, see http://dragaera.info
