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newbie: video lighting - HiD vs. Others

buviman
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Oct 7, 2004, 5:54 AM

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Hi All;

Can you kindly extend your patience to this post?

I am confused about HiD lighting vs. other types:

some say that higher temperatures (~6000K) approximates sunlight and gives better results
others that you should stay around 5000K, and HiD is to bright.

also, HiD apparently has longer burn time / tends to have much smaller/cheaper battery packs...

any recommendations either way?
any specific product recommendations?

I have only really checked out one set - the NiteRider pro.

thanks again

bm

sailordiver
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Nov 14, 2004, 12:39 PM

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HiD is far better than quartz because of the color temp. difference. Orange everything gets tiresome to the eye and is inaccurate anyway. I use a pair of Halcyon 50W HiDs and a pair of DiveRite 21W HiDs. Both work great. The Halcyons are in the 5000 deg.K range and the DiveRites are cooler at about 6000 deg.K. Good Luck.

CamDiver
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Nov 22, 2004, 5:32 PM

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Hi,
HID in my book is over rated. I use lighting from Fa-Mi (www.fa-mi.com) their lighting systems are more than adequate for close work. I pretty much specialise in Macro and so this is an important aspect of my work. Macro with diopter lenses, up to +10 at times.

For anything else I use wide lenses and no lighting. It all comes down to how you set up the camera.

Cheers,
mark.
Palau
Western Pacific
(someone's gotta live here, right?)

bubblevision
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Dec 30, 2004, 2:22 AM

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My Sony VX2000 is very good in low light so I don't use lights often during the daytime, only if I'm really deep or in caves etc.. I use L&M Sunray halogens at night. I tend to search for the fish on the middle of 3 power settings and then switch to the dimmest setting for the actual shooting so the fish don't get stressed out and the image doesn't get blown out. I can't imagine doing close work underwater at night with HID. They'd just be too bright. For daytime though, they can be very useful fillers if that's your style and of course he burn time is way longer than halogen.
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