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Professional Lighting Handbook, Second Edition [Hardcover]

Sylvia Carlson (Author), VERNE CARLSON (Author)

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Publication Date: August 13, 1991 | ISBN-10: 0240800206 | ISBN-13: 978-0240800202 | Edition: 2

This thoroughly updated edition of the lighting 'bible' guides readers through technical foundations, equipment, and techniques of lighting for film and video productions.

The Professional Lighting Handbook details all major lighting topics, including: characteristics of light; fixture structures and components; light source types, operating principles, and use; unit power requirements; light controllers, modifiers, and filters, and how to select them; the aesthetics of lighting the set.

Details everything you need to know about lighting.
Perfect for anyone in film or video production.
This is the "bible" of professional lighting.

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The Professional Lighting Handbook details all major lighting topics, including: characteristics of light; fixture structures and components; light source types, operating principles, and use; unit power requirements; light controllers, modifiers, and filters, and how to select them; the aesthetics of lighting the set.

Details everything you need to know about lighting.
Perfect for anyone in film or video production.
This is the "bible" of professional lighting.

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This thoroughly updated edition of the lighting 'bible' guides readers through technical foundations, equipment, and techniques of lighting for film and video productions. It details all major lighting topics, including: characteristics of light; fixture structures and components; light source types, operating principles, and use; unit power requirements; light controllers, modifiers, and filters, and how to select them; the aesthetics of lighting the set.

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Hardcover: 248 pages
Publisher: Focal Press; 2 edition (August 13, 1991)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0240800206
ISBN-13: 978-0240800202
Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 5.8 x 0.7 inches
Shipping Weight: 14.9 ounces
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,350,576 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Light is radiant energy, and our knowledge of it existed long before film and video were invented. Read the first page

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fixture filters, ellipsoidal fixture, striker lever, fixture reflectors, hybrid spectrum, framing shutters, fixture lenses, tungsten standard, gobo head, compact filament, lamp operator, kicker light, stage plug, studio arc, lighting person, standard fluorescent lamps, fixture housing, reflector board, shutter angle, film balanced, negative carbon, daylight blue, positive carbon, green daylight, lighting unit

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