Location Lighting

I have been looking around at portable lighting for relatively basic
location lighting, but the battery packs seem to be overpriced for what they
are and limited. Quite often, the modeling lights don't even work when run
off battery packs.

I came across the Honda EU10i (which I think is the same as the EU1000i in
USA), which seems like an alternative to battery packs and are relatively
light and quiet. According to the info it says that the "Inverter
technology delivers super stable clean power with a pure sine wave form -
essential for powering sensitive electronics and computers", which I would
assume is safe for lighting? On the plus side, you could also run a laptop
off it as well.

Anyone had any experience with using this type of generator for powering
lighting?

Jake wrote:
I have been looking around at portable lighting for relatively basic
location lighting, but the battery packs seem to be overpriced for what
they are and limited. Quite often, the modeling lights don't even work
when run off battery packs.

I came across the Honda EU10i (which I think is the same as the EU1000i
in USA), which seems like an alternative to battery packs and are
relatively light and quiet. According to the info it says that the
"Inverter technology delivers super stable clean power with a pure sine
wave form - essential for powering sensitive electronics and computers",
which I would assume is safe for lighting? On the plus side, you could
also run a laptop off it as well.

Anyone had any experience with using this type of generator for powering
lighting?







My father has a system he built himself. It is a Lithium Ion Polymer
motorcycle/aircraft battery that is fitted into a charging cradle in his
car and that has a carry case that contains an AC inverter. It is very
small and light, yet many times more powerful than a lead acid motorcycle
battery. This was supplied through a company that builds UltraLight
aircraft and is *NOT* cheap, but it amazingly light, portable and powerful.
He uses car headlights, those very bright high intensity discharge (HID)
xenon headlights with umbrella type reflectors in place of studio floods.
It makes for a very portable very powerful lighting system. The whole
system including the folded reflectors, stands, cable reels, and a couple
of camera battery chargers packs into a large aluminium wheeled Pilot's case.

He does a lot of interior shots of yachts and small craft for review, needs
very good, very compact, easily portable lighting and wide angle lenses.
The white balance setting is nearly identical to flash but sometimes it can
use a little WB tweaking on the raw files in Photoshop.


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