Battery Chemistry is important. Beyond the increasing amount of data and studies saying which type of battery lasts for X dation and has y life-cycle, why should you check that your batteries and respective chargers are compatible? Why check that your charger is optimized for the battery? This may sound like an obvious point but [...]
For those of you who’ve been interested (or dogged us) for Kelvin rating and luminosity output for our Studio LED lights–the ID400, ID500, ID1000, Multi-K XL–and haven’t been able to get the answers you need from our product videos, I’ve updated some detailed charts for you. We recently collated our in-house testing data for your [...]
Missed your ikan tip of the week at all? I actually did. I believe it’s still a great creative outlet for applying ikan gear in various, effective ways, considering the innumerable configurations available to you via the ELEMENTS line, esp with the EV2 series now available. This week, I’m going to don this product the [...]
As promised last week, I am serving up a few more BTS pictures of the music video shoot from the third week of May. And as with last week’s tip of the week, this one centers on some of the gear we used for the shoot. Now, I am sure that there are a great [...]
This week, country came home for me when I DP’ed the first music video for a new country singer, Neil Austin Imber. Today we wrapped shooting after a very brief two day shoot that incorporated a ‘General Lee’ replica (remade as a souped up big-wheeler), a brief stop at the Firehouse Saloon in Houston, TX [...]
The Elements from ikan. For many, they signify a series of kits that are made up of various parts from a larger ikan catalog, not really meant to be considered as individual parts, but rather as kits to choose from. Coming out of a production background in which customizing your rig to suit your exact [...]