Alan Lloyd
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Film Lighting by Kris Malkiewicz is also a pretty good one.
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Todd is right. Photoflex boxes are less costly. I have Chimera myself, a client uses a mix in their studio.
You might also want to look into modifiers for the boxes – grids are nice, especially. I don’t spend on their barndoors, I just clip foamcore or blackwrap to them to trim the beam if a grid doesn’t get it done – say, if you’re close to the back wall in a fairly small space.
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Is your camera set to “camera” or to “VTR” in its settings?
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Another diffusion material that’s quite handy is “silk” – the directional diffusion sold by Rosco and Lee, among others. At your supply shop, look at a piece of it, and you’ll see a slightly shinier side and a side that’s somewhat scored with lines running across it. These spread the beam out – at a right angle to the orientation of those lines.
Very handy stuff for lighting things like staircases, or evening out the “wash” across a greenscreen, and it also gives a tiny bit more control of spill, or at least the beginning of more control.
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Well, you might have better luck posting in a different forum…
That said, the EX series, while not offering a waveform display, does have both zebra and histogram settings, and most edit applications offer software scopes, which are reasonably accurate. Are you using these?
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What are your “device control” settings in the capture window?
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An open-face 650 will take a softbox nicely. I do it all the time. And yes, they do throw a lot of heat. The nice part is that even an XS Chimera will have its diffusion far enough away to avoid the “burning a hole” problem.
I’m also betting you did not have the thing flooded out, and it’s possible that the focal point of the spot beam was right at the diffusion plane. Things like that do happen. I remember melting a hole in a piece of full daylight with a 650 (Lowel Omni) using their “superspot” reflector in the head for some much-needed punch in a particular situation.
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[Doug Collins] “I would like to see just how they plan on “making Georgia more economically competitive.” While restricting how many people can compete.”
Classic corporate doublespeak, derived from classic corporate doublethink.
Is anyone even surprised any longer?
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You have an Anton Bauer style Power-tap connector on the camera, meaning you can set it so the light is only on when you’re shooting. (See p. 23 of your camera manual.)
Just make sure you have a good battery on board.
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Got it.
I think you’re maybe going to want to compromise on the feathering, or else you’re setting yourself up for a ton of slow hand work. Just from looking at the piece you linked, that seems like how it’s likely.