"Re: [AG-TECH] lighting" - Cameras?

[Jonas Talandis]

We use them. I agree with Bob, but there are some redeeming qualities to 
consider. I think their main strength is lighting a talking head in a vtc 
application, where two of them are offset on the ceiling about 5 or 6 feet 
from the subject. They come in two versions, a master and slave, so you can 
daisy chain them and tweak the illumination level from a single IR remote. 
They cost about $900 apiece.

good video needs light so sometimes you trade some subject comfort for the 
audience. We found it's not too bad with a little experimentation in your 
space.


At 12:43 PM 4/30/01 , Robert Olson wrote:
>We've got some of them (I don't remember the model). They're apparently 
>meant to work as fill lighting to augment standard room lighting. The 
>video you get looks really nice, but they are pretty obnoxious -- to have 
>good effect, they need to be fairly close to the people they are 
>illuminating, and are uncomfortably bright.
>
>--bob
>
>At 12:26 PM 4/30/2001 -0500, Michael Grobe wrote:
>>also on this subject, i recently saw some Navitar lights in a local
>>video conference showroom....more info at
>>
>>    http://www.navitar.com/
>>
>>they say they attenuate the flicker problem and have a suitable temperature.
>>
>>apparently there are 2 models.
>>
>>has anyone worked with these lights? if so, which models, and how did
>>they perform?


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