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That's still helpful. Sorry for the inappropriate question; I'll won't waste your time in the future with technical minutiae (particularly as poorly-phrased as what I wrote). I'm just stressed out...

I think the older (much older) 1.2kw HMI pars used PAR64 light bodies with G38 bases rather than a single-ended G38 bulb in a reflector. Not sure what the terminology is, but I've used some like...

Hi, I remember that you recommended a few times in the past FFN 6ºX12º 1000w par cans for accenting night exteriors and for Richardson-style glowing light pools.

I was about to order a few par...

Yes, I can try to offer advice, but a lot of it may be biased or incomplete. I'm not the best person to ask since I'm in a similar position to you.

I would not buy a red camera now if I were in...

I've heard BU has on okay program. Boston is currently the worst major city in the US for work in the film industry so I would recommend against studying there, though. Emerson has a good program...

I've always wondered about this, too. I asked about it a couple years ago, actually, and my friend said it was a stupid question, so I'm hesitant to even post about it.

I still have no idea, but...

That's a good idea, but we only have money for one adapter...so we'll go with the fastest one we can find and use it for everything. Thanks for the good advice, though.

Thanks; we'll rent the crystal sync generator.

These adapters are horrible, but we can't afford a faster rig and we need the shallow depth of focus to hide our low budget; we'll go to 270º and...

Sorry for the specific and uninteresting technical question; anyone else who knows the answers to these can chime in.

Would it be safe to run HMIs (likely a magnetic 1.2k, an electronic 1.2k, a...

I don't mean to butt into a thread where the questions aren't mine to answer, but this one seems pretty simple: they used a split diopter, which is basically a close-up (diopter) filter that only...

Really, do what you like. No one can say "no" except your collaborators.

This is just something to consider: the point of view shot isn't literally "what someone sees" but rather a...

Under most circumstances, the cameraman frames the most significant information on one of the 1/3 lines. Straight-on or symmetrical compositions are rarer and typically indicate something unusual;...

Trying to adjust the depth of focus to emulate human perception and add post effects to emulate peripheral vision isn't worthwhile.

If you're trying to make some VR system, it could be cool, but...

This is blatant fanboy stuff even by the poor standards set by this board.

ENG cameras have had gain since forever. The Red DOESN'T have gain and somehow that's an innovative feature that's never...

CRI is a meaningless term; it stands for "Color Rendering Index" and is intended to quantify the percentage of a perfect bell curve spectrum represented by a light source. I believe it nominally...

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If you're shooting with a very low budget, you may not even be able to afford a large HMI for the moon. But who needs it? In this case, par64 cans are commonly used. Ironically,...

I've never heard of day for night in the city, at least not in recent history. There's no reason to do it and a million reasons not to. Street lights aren't on during the day, for one thing; they...

I'll re-watch Days of Heaven. I was looking for an excuse to, anyway.

I don't disagree about night exteriors; you can read my post on the last page about "Hollywood night" versus "realistic"...

I hate to disagree with respect to Days of Heaven, as it's a great and beautiful movie however you approach it, but I wouldn't consider it an exemplar of traditional day-for-night techniques.
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It looks good. I'm not one to criticize; I'm not even in the film industry. I'm actually a retail clerk whose income is somewhere in the neighborhood of half a red one per year, so the last thing I...

Hi, the reason Lost (and other tv shows) have such bright night exteriors is because networks mandate as much. Most people have poor contrast on their TVs and leave the lights in the room on; so...

Don't want to be mean, but that guy's poking fun at your apparent relative lack of experience for asking if day for night looks different on the red. (Of course it looks roughly the same on every...

I think this makes sense. The push-in indicates a realization about something, or a focus on something in space. A zoom during a point of view shot indicates that the character is focusing in on...

Syntatically, there are major differences between a zoom and a dolly. (You wrote push-in to mean digital zoom, but push-in means dolly in).

A dolly moves the camera (and therefore the audience)...

Awesome, thank you for the advice. Both answers were very helpful. Hopefully business will pick up soon!