Esoteric
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Sharpie in the corner. If I need to know what color it is, I just pop out my phone and look on the instrument schedule. Marking is for filing purposes.
Mike
Mike
9) For anyone who has not figured this out yet, frost should always be placed against the lens (# facing out) with the colour in front of it. If placed into a fixture the opposite way (frost away from lens), you will burn your saturated (or any) colour into the frost and make it garbage after it's first and only use.
...color media inevitably deposits onto diffusion.
You are definitely correct, Gaff, however...I have cut frost (R119 or R132) for a lot of our Source 4's and after 2-3 years it is still not saturated with the colours previously used with it. In fact, frost will pretty much last a super long time if it lives in it's own frame against the lens with the colour in a separate frame away from the lens. You are then providing air space between the frost and your colour, allowing both to last much longer. Frost lets all colour tones pass through. The frost is just softening the beam for you instead of using the barrel to do this. Whereas, colour against the lens will start to separate from its sheet and bleed into the frost within minutes if using a more saturated colour like dark blue or indigo. So you have a choice of getting maybe a week or two (or max a full run of typical 5-6 weeks for most professional companies) out of your frost, or a couple years.
If it makes you feel any better, I had a student intern once who wrote things like "Light Blue" and "Dark Blue" on gels when cutting.
Sharpie in the corner. If I need to know what color it is, I just pop out my phone and look on the instrument schedule. Marking is for filing purposes.
Mike
So, is there a reason that the gel manufacturers don't print the number all over the sheet in really tiny/inconspicuous font so no matter how you cut it up you could always see it? Seems sort of odd that none of them do that since they know people end up having to do it themselves.
So, is there a reason that the gel manufacturers don't print the number all over the sheet in really tiny/inconspicuous font so no matter how you cut it up you could always see it? Seems sort of odd that none of them do that since they know people end up having to do it themselves.
So, is there a reason that the gel manufacturers don't print the number all over the sheet in really tiny/inconspicuous font so no matter how you cut it up you could always see it? Seems sort of odd that none of them do that since they know people end up having to do it themselves.
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