Comments on: An Almost Magical Way To Light Your Green Screen Background

By: Corey Melton

Corey Melton — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 03:51:00 +0000

seems so unnecessary

By: Nigel King

Nigel King — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 09:08:00 +0000

I use this kit with the local high school. Works perfectly in that the kids get the concept with out being bogged down with the delicate lighting of traditional green screen. Highly recommend for this level of production.

By: Dugdale

Dugdale — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 02:46:00 +0000

That is a pretty cool solution but yea it is expensive!

By: Dugdale

Dugdale — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 02:46:00 +0000

That is a pretty cool solution but yea it is expensive!

By: Gary Meyer

Gary Meyer — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 17:33:00 +0000

Personally, I would rather spend the $1600 on a kit of regular hot lights and then be able to use them in broad daylight and wherever else I feel the need to use them. Its a neat idea, but I don’t know if the practical application would be awesome enough to warrant the drawbacks of the system…

By: Zack W.

Zack W. — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 17:03:00 +0000

once a knockoff shows up on ebay out of China…

By: Mike Nelson

Mike Nelson — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 16:50:00 +0000

I’ve actually used this on multiple video shoots for the past 2+ years. One of the production companies I work with owns one and we use it a lot. It’s actually surprisingly good and really fast to set up. You look in the viewfinder of the camera and the background is a perfect even green. It does reflect pretty heavily in eye glasses if the subject is wearing them and is looking straight into the camera. Other than that, it’s great!

By: Albert Manduca

Albert Manduca — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 16:15:00 +0000

I don’t see how visible light won’t be hitting your subject. Also what about when you use powerful lights, sometimes I light people with powerful HMI Par lamps going thru diffusion material.. Won’t those lights overpower the little ring flash? I’d love to test this thing in the studio vs the traditional method of lighting a green screen.

By: Une Herzer

Une Herzer — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 16:11:00 +0000

It’s been out for some time now, but the kit is still… very plasticy!
It does illuminate the subject with a green / blue cast (depending of which kit you are using), if you don’t control the light correctly… I have been shooting chromakey since 1990, and still prefer the ‘propper’ way of metering the lighting to a green or blue screen rather than this set-up… I shot a feature with this lighting the main, and to the side the ‘b-roll’ profile camera was shooting against conventional green screen.. the results were much better with the conventional set-up.

By: Patrick Hall

Patrick Hall — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 16:09:00 +0000

It probably will be in about 6 months :)