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I rented two of these things for a party in a local park several years back, and the vendor *did* stake them down. It seems like the least they could do, right?

I'm currently building my second foam-based camper/TV control room, and in that world the only thing we stick foam to wood with is Gorilla Glue. It is awesome stuff, with a bond that is actually stronger than the foam. It does expand, but if you weight it down while curing you can keep it...

Or: You can trim an airplane to fly itself, but a helicopter is always trying to kill you.

In a different vein is a moldable rubber-like substance called Sugru. It's totally awesome, sticks to just about anything, and if you install it correctly and smooth it with water you can get a very nice flush surface. It comes in about a dozen colors and can be mixed to make custom colors...

But it's not (necessarily) inferior light. So many of the LEDs out there depend on an array of small individual lights - which brings up the unfortunate "thousand shadows" result. All I want is the nice, controllable edge and punch a single bulb produces thru a fresnel lens. What I don't want...

Pictures of my experiments...

Hi all. Like just about everyone in the video production world, most of my portable tungsten lights are gathering dust and being replaced with LEDs of varying capability. But I haven't found any LED fresnels that can replace my LTM Pepper 200w and 400w units for anything resembling a reasonable...

I haven't watched it yet, but I guarantee that the reason it's all out of focus is because they used a DSLR or large-sensor camera of some sort and had the lens wide-open. Short depth of field is a nice effect, but really...you gotta get it in focus sometimes. The This Old House shows (and...

I have about 20 of the S4 LED Minis in my small studio, and I dim them off an ADJ/Elation 24ch board with 5 Powerpacks. *If* you can find the LED Dummy plugs, they dim just fine. Problem is, last time I looked for them the LED Dummys don't seem to exist anymore.Anyone else got a source?

I was for many years a sysop on the CompuServe MIDI/Music Forums, and later on the DV Magazine forums. The MiniDisc was a source of consternation for the assembled, most of whom considered the ATRAC compression scheme to be Of The Devil! Of course, it was just setting the table for all the...

I know this forum skews more towards theatrical fixtures, but hoping for good info. Has there been much progress in re-lamping tungsten fresnels with LED chips? I have a box full of LTM Peppers that have served me well on field ENG/EFP shoots for 20+ years, but now that LEDs have taken hold no...

I've seen the Hulu one but not Netflix yet. As a guy whose job it was to shoot documentaries for big parts of the last 35 years, I see that both of them have severe structural flaws. As Dave pointed out, the marketing company was a producer of the Netflix version. <BZZZZZT!> But the Hulu...

As a very happy user of the LED Dummy, I immediately ordered a dozen of them from IDJNow, just to get a reply this AM that they are out of stock and not coming back. I think it's time for someone with greater electronic smarts than I to reverse-engineer these things and get them to market!

Hey all. So I have decided to learn more about DMX, and to that end I bought a Lixada USB to DMX cable and eight of those Lixada RGBW PAR cans to experiment with. The cable came with a super-basic piece of DMX mixing software called FreeStyler 512. I'm figuring it out bit by bit, but there...

Yeah, to the structural truss a foot above the ceiling that holds up the next floor. You guys haven't worked in remote TV much, I guess; these things...https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/863599-REG/kupo_kd302112_baby_drop_ceiling_adapter.html...are in every ENG shooter's light kit, and...