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Yep. The Wilhelm scream is probably the most prolific. It had become somewhat of an inside joke in the industry, but now it’s well out in the open and even more frequently-used than it used to be. There are so few good SFX libraries out there that are sold for broadcast/screening/streaming...

Using barn doors to cut the light down to the edges of the frame keeps light spill way down. Black wrap if you don’t have barn doors. Though, which Godox are you talking about? Do they not make a softbox for it? Umbrellas are okay. Not my favorite, and they tend to spill a bit.

A C-stand w/ Hollywood arm, and a Quacker (or duckbill) clamp. https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/320208-REG/Matthews_B756040_Hollywood_Century_C_Stand.html https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/139521-REG/Matthews_429042_Quaker_Clamp.html You can always punch it through a 4x4 (or...

One other thing you’ll also notice between professional cinema primes and… not… professional cinema primes: front lens diameter. The good cinema primes have much larger lens diameter, so more surface area for gathering light and larger gathered image to project on the image sensor. Lenses with...

Put a Cooke prime on a DSLR and you’ll see a world of difference. The lens isn’t just one piece of glass. It’s several lens elements throughout the lens body. The quality of the glass and the coating used on the front element can affect color, contrast, and sharpness. The spacing and grouping...

“Greetings, Starfighter. You have been recruited by the Star League to defend the frontier against Xur and the Ko-Dan Armada.” So, SO good.

Honestly, I still enjoy War Games. I was surprised to learn my wife had never seen Flight of the Navigator. We’re both 80s kids and that movie was a staple for me when it came out. We watched it a few weeks ago, a re-watch for me and a first viewing for her, and I was actually surprised with...

Less is more! I misspoke on the DZOFilm. The Linglungs Are Micro 4/3 mount, not appropriate for the 77D. The Pictor zooms are Canon EF, and come in 20-55mm and 50-125mm flavors.

Yeah, it happens. I got my first job in broadcast TV in 1996. So here‘s the thing about primes: they‘re a massive pain in the ass if you don’t have the support crew to deal with it. There are, of course, visual/aesthetic advantages to shooting with them, but they can also slow you down. On the...

50mm is a fairly versatile focus length, until you need to go wider in a smaller space. 24mm, 25mm, and 28mm are extremely versatile, as is 35mm. But keep in mind, if you’re shooting narrative, why different lenses are used and when they’re used. Generally, you want the camera to be placed where...

Basically. I was editing my post as you replied, but I did add that HMIs run on ballasts, and those have fan noise. We did have to be careful where we put them, for the sake of sound. I completely forgot to include that with the suggestion earlier. My apologies. $12 will get you what you need...

No. Hot lights (tungsten, HMI) are a completely different world. The photometrics are different, especially the falloff. It’s also a lot easier to get a truly hard edge cut on tungsten or HMI than on LED. As for heat, all those fixtures used the chassis as a heat sink. They still ran extremely...

Also, this is an interesting side-by-side.

SAVE20 Also worth watching before you buy, just to be more informed in your purchase:

It’s entirely possible that there are no Amaran fixtures on that truck or in the DP’s car. Likely, in fact, now that I think about it. All these monolight heads, at some point it all runs together. So, one more suggestion from Intellytech: a two-head daylight Pocket Cannon kit. Roughly the same...

Also, I highly recommend, if you didn’t order one or don’t already have one, the Impact 1000W analog dimmer for that Quasar tube.

Still weird to me only because I’ve been on set with Aputure lights quite a bit and never heard that much fan noise. There’s one DP in town I work with a few times a year, and a local gaffer with grip truck I work with a few times a year, and both have a bit of Aputure in their inventory. But...

I really can’t speak on experience with those. Never used them. Video reviews are few, and while the two that seemed to have the best info showed some pretty impressive photometrics, nobody actually showed any practical setups lighting with them. Numbers are what they are. Real-world use cases...

Sounds like the second one to get powered down was the real culprit. That said, and while it does seem like the fans are loud (and may be in the long run), that video is using an omnidirectional mic on a camera/phone that’s going to amplify anything in the room. It’s also a very reflective room...

Yikes. I’ve seriously not had that kind of noise issue out of those fixtures before. Well, if you like the monolight form factor, which is what those Amarans are and what the SmallRig and others you’ve linked are, take a look again at Intellytech and the X-100. Same form factor, same Bowens...