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Group Buy: K-FLECT lighting System

Haha
Sorry I didn't mean to put pressure.
I just find your comments handy and valuable. If you'll be too busy to review after receiving, no worry!
Cheers
 
Here are a few shots I recently did where I employed the K-Flect panels.
Leica 100mm macro
Dragon 6K 3:2 2:1 compression. No retouching yet.

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Alvise Tedesco said:
Haha
Sorry I didn't mean to put pressure.
I just find your comments handy and valuable. If you'll be too busy to review after receiving, no worry!
Cheers
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No worries. I will definitely be giving it a thorough review.
 
As I was away in Guatemala, the DP kit awaited for me on my return. Won't have time to play with these until Sunday, but everything looks great.
 
David Battistella said:
Will look into it. You can even add them to a regular joker bug 800. Doing the reflector makes the single light source brighter and I think more than 10 times more efficient. 3000 lumens becomes like 51000 lumens.

Its brilliant. Take the same light source and by adding their reflector (they make one for the actual light source) you seriously multiply the output power. The you take that and bounce it and shape it with various reflectors. Big savings in generators, etc.

battistella
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With all due respect, Joker 800 PAR reflector is very, very efficient, almost 100% of light is reflected back onto the scene, and you can't cheat the laws of physics. I can see how one light could be split into many sources, and so the notion of multiplication, but you can't magically add total light intensity. Also, having tried this system, I would add that there is some complication created by having so many beams around the room that can be crossed/shadowed by moving actors and cameras, in potentially unwanted ways. So interesting, yes, but with limitations.
 
Trying something and mastering it are very different things. Like, maybe, someone who has worked with the system for a few years could really get the most out of it. There are examples in this thread of very respected cinematographers maximising the light output of a single source including scenes shot in the dead of night.

The group of people who developed these products are looking for more efficient ways of lighting. If lights in a studio grid do not get in the way, then how can a panel unless it is not placed properly.

Now, I know you are a glass half full kind of guy, but any complication created is by the user. It is no different than placing any other light, you point the panel the way you would any other light, so determining the correct position of your source is paramount to lighting a scene.

It's true, you might have to unlearn some habits, but the principles are exactly the same.

Battistella
 
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Using these panels bring a lot of new possibilities. I am still "playing" with them and far away from what you can see on the web, but even if you use them like a simple reflect panel, you discover a lot of different light quality than when lighting "hard" or "soft" in direct mode. I will be first using them in single man interview mode, and i have to change a lot of my sources and way of lighting. Very promising and stimulating !

Olivier
 
Best practical demonstration and explanation of this system I've seen so far! :smile:
 
It was very cool to literally see how just panning one light in completely changed the whole setup, tone and mood. I like it from the perspective of sort of freeing up the set and getting very natural looks.

Battistella
 
That dedolight lens is very cool.

i think Helolux might be in play soon as well.

Battistella
 
Patrick Tresch said:
FYI, it's not the K-Flect system seen in this video.

Pat
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Yes,

however er the exact same reflective surfaces are used by kflect and the exact same principles apply. I posted in the interest of sharing possibilities.

Battistella
 

Thank you Bob....very informative.

Looking forward to further examples.
 
I'm interested in another GB as well.
 
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