Keeping a white card nearby is easy with this week’s quick tip
I was working on an edit for a show a few weeks ago and I noticed that the shooters in the field had a pretty good trick that they were using for white balancing their cameras. When I saw what they were doing I thought to myself, ” why didn’t I think of that years ago!” The video will explain everything.
I can’t believe that I went this long without picking up on this. I can’t tell you how many times I misplaced the warming cards or my white card over the years, but I have never lost my lens cap. What a great idea – I only wish I could thank the shooters personally, but I never found out their names.
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Your right john now why did I not think of that but I have two tips I like to share with you one which I already sent over to joe about the DP Slider which you should check out and post on here. But the one thing me and mike came up with as AC’s working on feature films etc.. together about 2 years go was that not all cameras weither it be film or vidoe did not have a rain cover all the time so we found out a new and simple way to make a rain proof camera and that is taking a trash bag and cutting out a hole for the eye pice and the lense and gaff taping both of the around the ring and their you have a rain proof camera and we did do it to cover up a panasonic hpx500 during a rainy scene and once with a Arri SR 3 during some water stunts.
Paper inside the lens cap. Now thats a good tip. My Canon super-wide zoom has a huge lens cap. I could probably fit a wicked size scrap of paper in there.
Now, if you take a litle more time, you can fold in a biger peace of paper, like a map inside a book cover. Unfolds down once, and then to the side.
Best Regards