Photographers - equipment question
 

Someone once told me about a "bag" or something similar that you could buy, to put around a camera to muffle the shutter click (for when you're simultaneously shooting video).
I lost the link - does this sound familiar to anyone?
Thanks in advance :-)

Nice idea but I don't see it working :2 cents:

Why not?
It would be something to muffle the noise, and that does not seem to out of wack. What I do not get is why digital cameras even make a damn noise when you push the button.

It's the shutter making the noise and based on it's location and the amount of dials, knobs, buttons in the immediate area I just don't see how it would work. HOWEVER, if one is made for a Nikon and it works let me know. :thumbsup

http://www.soundblimp.com/

it's called a sound blimp, used in movie/tv stills

Thanks jonny, now I can make sure my shooters get them.
Fucking hate hearing clicks in videos.

Do not even ask me about flashes, fucking do not know how to light a damn set shooters trying to pass off crap as content mother fuckers.

you see the size of that damn thing????? I would rather the clicks in the video

its a fake "click" you can turn on and off on most non SLR point and shoot digital cameras..

Johnny, do you have any first hand experience with it? Really like your work ..... thanks

Maybe it's time to find shooters who know what they are doing and shoot things correctly instead of taking the cheap way out.

Somebody is being a cheap bastard here....Not sure if it's you or the shooters but there are corners being cut.

You can't cut corners and then bitch about things like this. :2 cents:

Yes it's called a Blimp, there is one guy who makes them in the Valley and he pretty much services the whole industry. I use them when i shoot stills in films, they work perfect, you cant hear a thing on camera. Each Blimp is made specifically to each camera. The run from about 800$ and up.
I believe someone in this thread gave you the link

i might be an idiot, but we shoot each scene twice - the stills with flashes and the video with video lighting. so - no noise in the video. and no flashes. :2 cents:

Thanks folks :-)

http://img124.imageshack.us/img124/7618/22801971bk2.gif
One of our shooters used one that he had installed a small glass window over the LCD screen so he could check out the shots, but now we use a great sound guy with noise cancelling mikes and a boom.

We shoot everything separate as well. I was experimenting with doing both video and photo simultaneously in the past, but it just doesn't work. You could do it to some extent if you muffle the sound of the stills, but if you aim for lighting the video as well as the photos perfectly and you want to have good quality sound under the vid, there is no way this will work. :2 cents:

is that homemade...or is that the sound blimp that people have been talking about?

It's from http://www.soundblimp.com/
http://www.soundblimp.com/images/camera2.jpg
I would try one before you buy one. It's not EZ to use

Yep, that's the one I was asking about.
What makes it hard, just the size making it so unwieldy?

I stopped allowing this long long ago. Just bitching now about it.

And that would be the right way to do it....Well....One of the right ways. :thumbsup

Is it helping?

LOL.....I know whatcha mean.

The photo with it actually being used vs the ad photo sure give different perspectives on it's size.

I talked to my photog...and he says that's not the one that someone showed us a picture of earlier this year....anyone know of a softer, lighter one that's somewhat similar?

I have a blimp and it is great for dialogue - I rarely use it for sex scenes - I always try to shoot it apart from the video so i have the quality of strobe lighting - usually before the scene so model is right out of make-up.

no, i haven't used one yet. plan to this year though, they rent them down at PRS on highland, just south of santa monica blvd though. seems like it would be a bit bulky to get used to. thanks for the kind words about my work :)

that's the only one on the market, anything else was probably some kinda rig someone thought up, doubt it would work as well as the original though.

Took the words right out of my mouth. :thumbsup

I think that is the best way to do it. Any other was is just cutting corners. :2 cents:

sometimes you are shooting something where you cannot do stills first then the video and must shoot stills and video simultaneously. i have tried to shoot the stills without flash, but you need a lot of light to get in at iso800 and the flash helps to freeze the action. i use special daylight balanced video lights which match the flash color temp for clean colors, you can always tell which shooters use hot tungsten video lights, the pics have an orange hue.. but i would gess the best way to really get around this would be to edit out the frame where the flash goes off and also take out the sound ?

A bump for anyone who's seen another option....

I didn't think anyone used those blimps anymore. The photogs in my crews used to use those back on the old days in the early 90s to take pics with 35mm slide film cameras. Those blimps are awkward and hard to use.

Most shooters do what I do which is take photos before the video shoot with the existing video lights or strobes. Or they take pics with a flash enabled digital camera between the position changes of a sex scene and after the cumshot.

Like JP alluded to, it helps if you are filming with daylight balanced bulbs in Kino-Flo lights so that the typical on camera flash matches and any daylight streaming into the room from windows or skylights matches in color temperature.

Leaving flashes and audible pops from a movie is a horrible idea, and even worse, editing out frames with flash and pops would be both unnecessary and time consuming and look bad anyway!

Mike, I hit your guy with the link to the best option earlier today (its not the soundblimp). If you need it let me know. The best option is the one I sent him. It's a lot smaller and a lot cheaper. Doesn't muffle all the noise but pretty close. It could certainly be an option for your shoots with flash bulbs not being an option.

Sinclair

cool, thanks...i'll check in with him on it. :-)