Movie Makers (Jan-Dec 1952)

MOVIE MAKERS ing light intensity and one rheostat. Both are limited to work with black and white film only. The list prices are, respectively, $99.50 and $69.50, f.o.b. Detroit. 303 THE KODASLIDE Flexo File, listing at only $1.25, will hold 360 cardboard slides, 124 in glass mounts or 160 Kodak stereo pairs. Polarizers A complete line of polarizing filters, in all Series sizes from Series IV through Series IX, is now being offered by Enteco Industries, Inc., 610 Kosciusko Street, Brooklyn 21, N. Y. Prices graduate from $3.50 in the Series IV size to $14 for the Series IX filter. All are mounted in hard, lightweight duraluminum. Included with each Enteco polarizing filter is an instruction leaflet covering the many uses of this unique screen with both color and monochrome emulsions. Your request to Enteco Industries and a mention of Movie Makers will bring you a free copy of the leaflet by return mail. Foreign Color The General Photographic Supply Company, 136 Charles Street, Boston 14, Mass., flatly dares you to come up with a foreign color film which they cannot process. And, judging by the list of emulsions which they are ready to handle, it seems a good dare. Included are Dufaycolor, Agfacolor, Ferraniacolor, Fujicolor, Gevacolor, Lumiercolor, Pakocolor, Sakuracolor and Telecolor. General Photo also offers to make still prints from any positive or negative color process at prices ranging from 60 cents for a 2x blowup to $10 for a 12 by 16 incher. Movie making indoors [Continued from page 294] BAR LIGHTING TAKES A BOW Filming around the home it is often difficult to keep children the proper distance from fixed lamps, what with them running back and forth across the room as they do. Therefore, a few years ago the idea of attaching the lamps to the camera was introduced (see Fig. 3). Equipment of this type has since been called bar lighting or photolight bars. The lamps (either two or four) are placed at opposite ends of a bar ranging anywhere from 2 to 3 feet in length, with provision in the center of the bar for attaching the movie camera. Thus, on the two lamp bar there is one lamp, or on the four-lamp bar a pair of lamps, on each side of the camera. If the subject moves and it is desirable to follow it during the filming, the lights move with the camera and keep the illumination fairly uniform — as long as the subject remains at a constant distance from the camera. But if the subject comes closer to the camera or goes farther away, some change has to be made in exposure by adjustment of the diaphragm opening. While a lighting setup of this type does have certain definite limitations (especially with respect to the area that can be covered ) , the bar itself is reasonably light and flexible, and the lamps and camera can be left attached to it if one chooses. Thus, it requires only a few seconds to plug the lights in and start making home movies (see Fig. 4). Not only is the bar light a handy device for lighting children at play, but it often is about the only practical way to illuminate such newsreel types of subjects as a banquet, a wedding or school, Scout or church meetings. REFLECTOR FLOOD LAMPS The built-in reflector type of flood lamp is recommended for use in bar lights because it provides a large amount of illumination and has a satisfactory color temperature for use with Type A Kodachrome film. Perhaps the most suitable type of flood lamp for home movie cameras is the Medium Beam PH-375 watt unit. For the angle of light thrown by this lamp closely corresponds with the angle covered by the standard focal length lenses used on movie cameras. Also of importance is the fact that four of these lamps (drawing 3.3 amperes each) can be used on a regular 15 ampere home circuit. One easy method of determining exposure when using these PH-375 lamps in a lighting bar is that depending upon a series of guide numbers. Such a system of guide numbers, for both two and four-lamp setups, is plotted in Table III. EXPOSURE BY GUIDE NUMBERS To use a guide number properly, simply divide the guide number by the distance the camera is placed from the subject. The resulting figure gives the / value or lens opening. For example, for Type A Kodachrome which has a guide number of 24 under two lamps, and with the camera and these two lamps 12 feet from the subject, the procedure would be to divide 24 by 12. The result (2) indicates that the correct lens setting would be f/2 or //1.9 — whichever diaphragm opening is engraved on your lens. However, an important factor which should be kept in mind in the use of PH-375 lamps is that their illumination output is not constant throughout the life of the lamp. 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