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Amsterdam NTSC shoot with 50Hz lighting, up date
Hi all, I just found out that the lighting at the hotel is all 50 watt halogen lamps. So what do you think, will I get the big nasty flicker? Best bet to run shutter speed of 1/100? We arrive 2 days early and plan to do a test first thing. If it fails we will rent cameras over there. Can any one recommend a rental house in Amsterdam?
Name: Mike Hennessey
Date: Apr 26, 2006 at 2:11:02 pm
Subject: Amsterdam NTSC shoot with 50Hz lighting question.I have a corporate video shoot coming up in Amsterdam. It
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i don’t know much of anything…but, unless its a computer monitor, i think light is light, it doesnt pulse, unless its a lcd, or a screen or something?
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Halogen lights are hot lights, so there won’t be any flicker issue with them. I’m a little skeptical of
a hotel ballroom where there will be presentations using 50 watt lights though. That’s like a regular
residential lamp light bulb. My Arri tungsten lights are 2,000, 1,000 and 600 watts. I would be hard
pressed to light a big ballroom with all 9,000 watts. One other thing, be careful about flourescents showing
up in the background somewhere, they’ll still flicker and can ruin the shot.
I’ve used these guys, just once, but they were good:
https://www.camalot.nl/
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We recently shot some material in New Zealand, which also has 50 Hz lighting.
It was OK with tungsten/halogen light sources. But fluorescents were a serious problem.
I didn’t experiment with shutter speeds so can’t vouch for their effectiveness. But if your camera has a clear scan mode I know that will work… come to think of it, it’s the same as adjusting the shutter speed to match, so any multiple of 50 (1/100th) should work. The only drawback is that you’d lose almost a stop of brightness.
Dean Sensui — http://www.HawaiiGoesFishing.com
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