Camera and Lighting Tests with the Sony NEX-VG20

Those that are familiar with my filmmaking work have probably noticed by now that I don’t often light a scene, preferring instead to use natural light.

The reasons for this are usually two-fold - shooting with natural light allows me to shoot faster (and for a lot of my passion projects such as my short films and no-budget features, I need to shoot as fast as I can) and I also haven’t, until now, owned any lights.

The thing is, whenever I’m doing corporate jobs I often use lighting and I’ve begun collecting some second-hand lights, whatever decent deals my crew guys manage to find me these days, and thought I’d test them out. I was also lucky enough to get my hands on a Sony NEX-VG20 to test out over the long weekend last week together with a couple of E-mount lenses and some Alpha mount Carl Zeiss lenses with the appropriate adapter to fit them on the camera, so I thought I’d kill two birds with one stone and test both the camera and the lights I recently bought.

For the curious, below is a pic of how I set up the two flourescents that I bought. I used an Ikea desk lamp as a backlight - just took out the bulb that came with it and replaced it with a daylight flourescent lamp with about 120W (equivalent) output.

I’ll post up my thoughts and review of the camera itself at a later date and I’ll update this post with the same footage color treated on Magic Bullets 2. I haven’t slept since yesterday and I should’ve passed out two hours ago but instead decided to blog for a bit. However, I definitely don’t have the energy to write a full review of my thoughts of the camera just yet.

Besides, it’s raining - perfect sleep weather.

I’ve also re-arranged the Hub yet again since the layout above. Because that’s what I do.