HMI Lighting

Lighting is everything! Whether it's accustomed sunlight, chastened ambiance, absolute practicals or circuitous Hollywood appearance lighting, the angel owes all of its ability to light. An big-ticket but appropriate blazon of ablaze in a lot of higher-end video assembly projects is HMI lighting. For authentic lumen power, HMI's are harder to beat. They can be temperamental, flickery and a affliction to move but if you charge them there is no substitute.
HMI's appear in abounding altered types but the capital differences appear down to a few simple things. Ballasts. Newer, added big-ticket ballasts are electronic. Older, cheaper ballasts are magnetic. Cyberbanking ballasts are lighter, added activity able and can be flicker-free which makes a big aberration if application altered anatomy rates. Alluring ballasts are bigger, heavier, use added ability and can advance to big issues if not cutting at 1/48 or 1/60 bang speeds. The best is simple if you accept the money but alluring ballasts can plan just accomplished in assertive situations.
Lens/Globe - The basal two types are Fresnel and Par. Focusable Fresnel active which accommodate beneath bite but an-all-in one assemblage that are adjustable to a bigger bulk are acceptable in assertive situations area a little beneath ablaze is bare and you don't wish to backpack about lenses. Par active are bigger for a added bulk of acclimation by swapping out lenses from an alien case and an generally times added able all-embracing output. If I had to accept one arch I would a lot of absolutely yield a Par.
A different aspect of HMI's that accomplish them decidedly bigger than tungsten sources in abounding situations is that they are by itself counterbalanced to sunlight. This agency that the ablaze they afford is amid 5000 and 6000 degrees Kelvin and will bout absolute sunlight. Abacus abounding or 3/4 CTOrange gels to an HMI to bout tungsten lighting at 3200 Kelvin will alone yield abroad 2/3 of a stop but abacus abounding CTBlue gels to tungsten lighting will yield abroad 2 stops from a antecedent that is already far beneath able per watt. If you are abacus added aurora black lighting again HMI's are absolutely the way to go.
In the endure 10-15 years technology has accustomed us a brace added options to attempt with HMI's but at this point they are still bound with their uses. LED's and Fluorescent lights such as KINO FLO's are amazing lighting accoutrement but they do not accept the aforementioned arrangement of 'punch' that HMI's do. Fluorescents are inherently softer but accept beneath bandy than HMI's while LED's of the atom arrangement can aggregation a appropriate bulk of bandy it will still yield an big-ticket arrangement of LED's to attempt with even a 20 year old, acclimated HMI.
If you've never acclimated an HMI I appetite you to go to a abundance that sells them, hire one from a rental abode or analysis out one from a friend. They are amazing lights and admitting their complexities they action something no added apparatus can.