Posts Tagged ‘lighting’

We've got another cool product to giveaway from our friends at Switronix - one of their Torch BOLT LED lights and they're also throwing in the battery kit! And please note, Switronix has graciously agreed to ship anywhere in the world! So this is a…

planetMitch note: Simon Baily is reporting on the follow up to an earlier planet5D article about the LitePanels LED lawsuit. In August 2011, Vitec Group, parent company of Litepanels, instituted an International Trade Commission investigation (337-TA-804) that could potentially ban all LED lights except Litepanels.�?This…

Sent in by Khachik Mkrtchyan via twitter - and I have to agree, this might be a very interesting project for filmmakers and a cool light all by itself... http://twitter.com/KMA_WWC/statuses/248654651635924992 They're already at 10x their goal - having raised over $1.3 million! And, there are…

Bruce Logan (whom we had on this episode of the Digital Convergence Podcast) has written and co-DP'd a new short that features the Panasonic GH3 (even tho it hasn't been announced - should come out tomorrow). We also gave you the rumored feature list of…

As with most (or likely more accurately, all) independent productions we were balancing time, equipment and cost when planning the shoot on Incident on Marmont Avenue (click the link to see the movie and more). Julien Lasseur (IMDB), the director of photography, and I talked…

In episode 10 we address the fact that many of our daily planet5D videos have a green color cast to them - and a possible reason. We also cover a bit about flagging lights [adrotate group="6"] [adrotate group="9"] daily planet5D #10 not easy being green!…

We've got another cool product to giveaway (and we'll have more products in July too!) from our friends at Switronix - one of their Torch BOLT LED lights and they're also throwing in the battery kit! And please note, Switronix has graciously agreed to ship…

DP. It stands for director of photography (DoP for you British types. :) Two simple letters. D. P. It's funny how much is communicated when you add a few letters before or after your name. Dr. MD PhD MFA Esq. In each of these examples,…

I was speaking with Toby Sali from Litepanels yesterday and he mentioned that they had a couple of new products released last week and we thought you might be interested in some new lighting options. [adrotate group="6"] [adrotate group="9"] Litepanels Croma A compact, versatile Litepanels…

Our friend Tony Reale and his team at NextWaveDV have launched a new lighting company - Next Lites - and they're giving away 3 new lights to celebrate the launch. Have a look at the site and the giveaway [adrotate group="6"] [adrotate group="9"] Announcement and…