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Fine Netting?

James McLellan

James McLellan

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Hi,

I'm wondering if there is a material for netting off a window that will bring it down a few stops and move it towards tungsten light balance. Like a fine gold netting or something. Maybe 15' x 20' in size?

Does something like this exist?
 
you can buy single and double netting as yardage at most mathews equipment dealers.. you need gell to correct color balance.. you can buy Rosco and Lee combination ND and 85 if I remember correctly...
 
You can attach rolls of gel on a window simply by wetting the window or gel first, and it will stick.

If you really want net, the material is called bobbinet.
 
I was just wondering if there was a net that could do both in one swoop. Just seems like it would be a real sweet deal, no cutting no fuss, but it looks like there isn't anything out there is there.
 
IIRC, there ar some rental houses which have "hard" gells... like giant filters in pre made sizes for window.. contact your local grip house..
 
James McLellan said:
Hi,

I'm wondering if there is a material for netting off a window that will bring it down a few stops and move it towards tungsten light balance. Like a fine gold netting or something. Maybe 15' x 20' in size?

Does something like this exist?
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They make ND.3 .6 and .9 /CTO Gels.
Cuts + Converts to tungsten

Cinegel #3405: Roscosun 85N3
Combines the effect of the 85 and N.3 filters. Extra-wide 60 in. Optically clear. (Transmission = 33%).
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http://www.rosco.com/us/filters/cinegel.cfm?sortOrder=so&displayType=13
 
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James McLellan said:
I was just wondering if there was a net that could do both in one swoop. Just seems like it would be a real sweet deal, no cutting no fuss, but it looks like there isn't anything out there is there.
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You can visualize why it wouldn't work... any scrim with a weave open enough to see through but made of material translucent enough to color the light passing through the threads (if dyed) would at best only barely tint the light and barely darken the light coming through. And if the weave were denser to both color the light and knock down the amount of light, you couldn't see through it, it would be more like curtain sheers, and even then if dyed deep orange, it probably would only halfway correct daylight to tungsten.

It's a little like stretching brown pantyhose on a filter tray to make a diffusion filter -- if light enough to barely soften the image, it's also going to barely tint the image unless there is veiling flare over the surface of the net.
 
Thanks David. The more I thought about it the more it seemed I wanted to bend the laws of physics and your explanation illustrates this. I am working with students and was looking for a simple mixed colour solution as it often comes up in our scenes. Looks like geling the windows is the only way for now until the super-duper-mixed-light-sensor-iron-golem arrives.

Thanks for everyone's input!
 
someone needs to invent a frequency dispenser.. small device that disrupts the frequency of light and can change the color of light by the dialed in frequency

1.21 gigawatts
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There is square wave technology that does it already. I wonder why no one is using it.
 
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