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Anyone put a light on you're Cam??

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Has anyone managed to attach a Paglight or something similar to their Red, how easy is it, any photos?

Cheers
Dan
 
Dan said:
Has anyone managed to attach a Paglight or something similar to their Red, how easy is it, any photos?

Cheers
Dan
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I have not done it but, the red bat cage has a D-tap and the handle
has a 1/4-20 thread for your peg, so it should be just like any other setup
 
RED with light

RED with light

Dan,

We mount an Anton Ultra Light with a Chimera soft box to the top handle. It works great as a front soft fill light.
 
I like Litepanels for mobile use. I use the full panels sometimes, but for quick and lightweight fill for certain subjects (interviews, etc.) on my hand held RED One rigs in documentary productions I've even been experimenting with the Litepanels Micro, a tiny LED panel that uses batteries, generates no heat, and has a dimmer reostat knob to soften or intensify the light without changing the color temperature. For quick fill in hyper-mobile environments the Litepanels Micro is a good fix. Due to its small size I'll definitely use one when needed with Scarlet, and maybe even occasionally with Epic when shooting run & gun documentary style.

Litepanels Micro (about $325 USD):
http://www.s131567196.onlinehome.us/products/micro_detail.asp

I use higher end lights when productions call for them, but I don't hesitate to go for inexpensive solutions when I'm on run & gun projects.
 
Steve Gibby said:
I use higher end lights when productions call for them, but I don't hesitate to go for inexpensive solutions when I'm on run & gun projects.
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We've been using Litepanels together with a big lighting package for two months now. Sometimes the gaffer do all the "broad strokes" with his lights, and the DP uses gelled Litepanels for eyelight, fill etc.

It can really make a difference, even with a truck full of lights...
 
The LED-z mini par is 6 ounces and runs on 12 volts.

Anyone have any experience with mounting this light on their cam?

It would be this or the litepanel and I need to make a decision soon.
 
Steve/David,

How do you like the Micro versus the Mini Plus from Litepanels? Pros/cons? Does the Micro give you enough fill that you're comfortable with or do you find yourself wanting a bit more? I've been looking at getting one or the other and would love to hear your thoughts.
 
Mark Phelan said:
Steve/David,

How do you like the Micro versus the Mini Plus from Litepanels? Pros/cons? Does the Micro give you enough fill that you're comfortable with or do you find yourself wanting a bit more? I've been looking at getting one or the other and would love to hear your thoughts.
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Hi Mark,

Ideally you can get both the Mini Plus and the Micro. The Mini Plus is much more versatile, has a lot of different kit packages available, provides more light, etc. But the Micro is much less expensive, smaller (more mobile), and is a great fix for quick setup and removal. You get more fill from the Mini Plus, so if you need a lot of fill, that's the one. The Micro is the ultimate quick fill piece. I use the Micro with over the counter batteries - quick, easy, mobile, and inexpensive.

Mini Plus kit packages:
http://www.s131567196.onlinehome.us/catalog/mini.asp

If you can do it, get both. I did, and I've been very happy with the choice. If you're already buying the Mini Plus, then adding in just another $325 to also buy the Micro should be an easy choice.

I think you'll find both of them very useful.
 
Gibby sums it up.

The Mini puts out more light, comes in more configurations (right now, I think the Micro only comes with spot daylight LED's, so I use a diffuser panel and orange filter for tungsten scenes), but the Micro is cheaper, lighter, easy to stick anywhere, and uses 4 AA batteries that last a decent amount of time.

The output drops a little as the batteries get drained.

As for fill... I'd use a small on-camera light for fill or eyelight on a close-up when the camera is not too far away, but any wider sort of shot, or when the camera is much farther away on a long lens, an on-camera light is not a great way to fill a scene because either it's not bright enough, or it is too much of a point source at that point. So even though the Micro is not super bright once you diffuse it and correct it to tungsten, it serves my purposes well. And I suppose if I really needed to, I could remove the diffuser panel and get more punch.
 
I can't recommend the mini lite panel kit enough...

We don't like to buy kit unless we are not catered for by the traditional hire market. Lite Panels are so good we had to buy them.

I'm glad to never use those mini flow stuff again

The 1foot panels are great too... I've also used all the lite panels stuff underwater in simple bags. 4m was easy...

Michael L
 
Thanks guys. Always appreciate your opinions.
 
We use the Gekkotech LensLite.

It's caused more trouble than it's worth to be honest with you, we've had to send the entire kit back a number of times although the defects seem to be ironed out by now. Still, it's not the most compact and reliable sytem, although it looks good for closeups in music videos.
 
Mini plus was well worth the investment. Its a great little light. I use it on my Red a lot
 
Steve, a follow-up, flood or spot for your Mini?
 
I was DPing a shoot couple of days ago when the gaffer pulled out this small light panel that had a switch on that back for day light and tungsten, anyone know what this was?
 
I just got a zylight z90 which can do any color you want. its great for going
in somewhere and matching available light, and it has presets for daylight and
tungsten.
 
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