Im looking for feedback from anyone using a UK Light Cannon 100 HID for video lighting. Also what system are you using to mount the Light Cannon to the housing?
Thanks, Mark
Thanks, Mark
UK Light Cannon 100 for Video Lighting?
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I asked this same question back in October here:
http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/underwater-videography/206918-light-canon-my-panasonic-dvx100.html
Hope this helps
Billy
http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/underwater-videography/206918-light-canon-my-panasonic-dvx100.html
Hope this helps
Billy
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What housing? ULCS sells an adapter to use their arms with a Light Cannon. Look under Strobe and Video Light Adapters. Wooh..are they pricey though.
If you're handy, another option is Loc-Line tubing, it's the same stuff used by Gates/Nightrider and TopDawg.
Loc-line tubing is sold by Modular Hose for industrial applications. It's used by Sealife on their strobes. You can buy a starter tubing kit for about $10 - probably need two per light and with a little custom work could modify one of their Fixed Mounts to fit your Light Cannon. Look at a picture of a TopDawg housing, the piece above the handles is a fixed mount.
If your LC is too heavy and causes the Loc-Line to bend, try putting a piece of flexible thickwall plastic tubing inside it.
If you're handy, another option is Loc-Line tubing, it's the same stuff used by Gates/Nightrider and TopDawg.
Loc-line tubing is sold by Modular Hose for industrial applications. It's used by Sealife on their strobes. You can buy a starter tubing kit for about $10 - probably need two per light and with a little custom work could modify one of their Fixed Mounts to fit your Light Cannon. Look at a picture of a TopDawg housing, the piece above the handles is a fixed mount.
If your LC is too heavy and causes the Loc-Line to bend, try putting a piece of flexible thickwall plastic tubing inside it.
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If you follow my link Peter was talking about his experience with them. I'm about to pony up and buy a 2nd Light Cannon even though my housing hasn't seen water deeper than my bathtub yet. It just seems like a good idea. Ultralight Makes the ball adapter for it, picking one up this week.
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Thanks for the information; I will be mounting the Light Cannon on Ikelite 6038.22 housing. As for the web site with the videos created with the Light Cannon lighting, they are awesome. It looks like I'll be needing a second light to get the job done right...
Thanks Again
Thanks Again
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I have a new one in the box, might have been in the water once or twice, don't honestly remember, maybe never...make an offer that's not insulting.
Steve:14:
Steve:14:
Hey Mark,
I use 2 light cannons (with supplied filters) as fill lights. The quality of light is very even and quite impressive. I run the discovery 10W amphibico light as my main light. I use an Amphibico housing with ultralight buoyancy arms and custom clamps for the UK's.
hope that helps.
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Hey Mark I just got my 2nd Light Cannon (Thanks Steve!) and got 2 sets of double buoyancy control arms, an 8" and 12" for each LC100, from H2O Photo Pros. I'll let you know how I like em. I'll be trying them out without my camera Saturday and with my camera sometime next week in warmer clearer waters.
Billy
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