Dropped $4,000 at Samy's Camera on Saturday.
1 Canon f/4L 24-105mm lens.
2 Kino Flo Diva 400 Light Systems with Travel Cases.
These are the best brand of production lights in the world - for real. These are the lights they use to illuminate most of the stuff you watch on TV everyday. Instead of renting these all the time we decided to finally buy a couple of our own.
16 Kino Flo 55W 21" CFL Bulbs (8 daylight/8 tungsten).
As much as the lights cost you'd think they come with bulbs - they don't. You have to buy 2 complete sets - one set is 'daylight' balanced to match the color temperature of the sun and the other set matches regular incandescent light sources. This is one of the many concepts that we covered in Film school that I could never make myself pretend to care about. We would discuss in-depth lighting scenarios and contrasting light temperature situations at great length and while everyone took copious notes on the subject I would literally sleep through a large portion of the lectures and then I'd write a single sentence in my notebook, "RED bulbs = OUTDOORS" with a drawing next to it of a cartoon sun wearing sunglasses.
Anyway, I tried to tell you guys our photo/video game was about to get real serious. This doesn't even include the Glidetrack dolly we had shipped in from Scotland last week. And to think that people always wonder how Matt and I end up with so many giant tax deductions at the end of the year.
