Hi,
beside the megapixel race a question about how different forms of light behave on sensors. In my experience flash (Bron) and tungsten (Arri or Bron modeling light) give me a lot of problems with skin tones, i.e. difficult to filter red and magenta casts (Phase P21, Canon 1DsMkII). With HMI (Arri 125 / 575) the skin tones are much better to handle. But - and this is a BUT: Ask someone to look into a HMI fresnel for more than 30 minutes and they start to hate you.
Has anyone experience with Lite Panels, like these? How do they render skin tones with digital cameras?
http://www.s131567196.onlinehome.us/products/ringlite.asp
Best,
Johannes
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i have used all Lite panel products including the ringlight and they are great...dimmable, different color temp, some are battery operated....very compact and the latest generation is also pretty powerful (for LEDs).....
i have owned ringlights from broncolor and hensel and never got satisfying results with either with canons (which is why i stopped using them)....i never had problems with phase backs though....i always felt that the highlight transitions and shadows just look horrible with DSLRs...be it canon or nikon....using ringfalsh makes it even worse, it is just so unforgiving and you really need the DR and pixeldepth....
i have a friend who shoots his celeb protraits with ringlight(and other flash heads) and a P21...no problem with skin tones....but he got the phase because the canon just could not give him the look he was used to from film.....
skintone is also very dependend on the developer and i am sure everybody has a different reason why they use aperture, LR or C1 or whatever....maybe all for different situations...
in general i would also say that i never make anyone look into ANY light for even close to 30 min at a time....and most celebs (i am sure even for peter) won't give you more then 5-10min anyway.....
i have never used the kelvin tile...