Lights

Hi Guys,

Can we use strobe modeling lights in softbox for video when doing interview or chromakey green screen? I dont want to buy new lights if I dont need to since I have 2 Elinchrom 600RX and 2 Genesis 200. I've watched youtube and people use work lights but those light run very hot. Thanks

What do you mean? Just use the modeling light from the strobes? Obviously the strobe flash itself isn't going to help much.

I don't think so.

Sadly continuous lighting is the way to go. Consider renting individual lights? If your in SoCal check out:

http://www.woodennicke​llighting.com/
http://www.alangordon.​com/
http://www.samys.com/
LA 411: http://www.la411.com …nt/category-cid-50436.htm

I actually had a really good experience using a fluorescent worklight from Home Depot. They run $45 a piece. As long as you white balance it correctly that might be a cheap option for you to consider.

I take the 100 watt modeling light bulbs and put 250 watt photoflood bulbs in my strives and works great for me.

Photo99

Buy the $5 dish, clip on lights from Home Depot. I have used 500w photofloods in them.

Those little clip on lights support 500 watt bulbs? I passed on buying them because I thought they couldn't support that high of a wattage.

Just have to make sure they don't start smoking...you're ok then..

gibsonla wrote in post #12144687
Those little clip on lights support 500 watt bulbs? I passed on buying them because I thought they couldn't support that high of a wattage.

They don't as the sockets which are rated for 250 watts max will fracture from the heat and fail.

Wayne

gibsonla wrote in post #12142890
I actually had a really good experience using a fluorescent worklight from Home Depot. They run $45 a piece. As long as you white balance it correctly that might be a cheap option for you to consider.

Standard non-photographic fluorescents while workable have three major problems, first most of them have a nasty green spike that tears up skin tones and it really cannot be balanced out without applying a gel to the fixture, second they increase in brightness as they warm up and their spectrum drifts as they warm up resulting in a subsequent white balance shift.

Wayne

ontopofm wrote in post #12142022
Can we use strobe modeling lights in softbox for video when doing interview or chromakey green screen? I dont want to buy new lights if I dont need to since I have 2 Elinchrom 600RX and 2 Genesis 200. I've watched youtube and people use work lights but those light run very hot. Thanks

You can use higher powered incandescent bulbs in your strobes but do not exceed the manufacturers rating for the heads, usually they are limited to 250 watts per head as such an ECA/BCA photoflood would be the maximum you could operate with.

Wayne