I made my own Ring Light. Please let me know what you think.

[Michael Bernstein]

I just want to let you all know that I just finishe my ring light.
O ce I had everything to build this light it took me about 2 hours to build it.
It runs on 12volt battery from my glidecam that I made some mods for.

to chek out the ring light photos are located here

http://entertainment.webshots.com/album/558662070YwnSZy

and for other mods of my glidecam you can view them here:

http://entertainment.webshots.com/album/558378075zxyApw

Thanks for your time.

Hope this could help someone else in the future.

Also to let you all know that the handle off set I sell have been flying out my door.  Thank you to everyone who ordered one.
I will be making a bunch more to to have on hand for other orders.

To see the mod check out:

http://www.onesteadicam.com/mods4sale.html

thanks,

Mike Bernstein

[Brad Jefferson]

Mike.  Great job.  The light looks very nice.

Have you taken any video using the light?  It would be interesting to see how the unit lights up your subject.

Do you know how much light is illuminated?  Can you dim it if necessary?

Did you think using those tubes is better than LEDs?  Do you know how long you can continuously power your light?

Again, great job!!

Thanks, Brad

[Charles King]

Awesome job man. Do you have a photage of how it looks throught the lens?

[Michael Bernstein]

Brad,

Thanks.  As for using the LED's I have found them to give a blueish tint to the light.  These tubes are a soft white.
As for time the last I am doing a battery test right now.  I built this light on Friday 4/13/2007 and it took about 2 hours to build with painting the reflector.
I found that every light I have built in the past works alot better with a reflector behind it to send as much light to your subject.
I made this light for a buddy of mine that shoots weddings.  He told me that most of the places he shoots get dark for him camera.  So I built this as a test.  As for video footage from this light I will be posting some as soon as I cam get some from him.  He did tell me that the bateries I gave him lasted for the entire shoot.

Tha batteries are

Gel type batteries are 12 volts with 2000 milliamp/hour rating.

As for the lights they only draw about 0.7 amps of power at 12 volts.

These light do not dim yet!  As with this light only 2 days old I haven't had alot of time to play with them to find out just waht they can and can't do.
I just got them back from my buddy today.  So I will be doing alot of tests on them.

As for getting into led's,  I have a bunch of prototypes I have made with LED.  WHen they get ride of the bluish tint and make them brigher then maybe I will go back into making a led light.

Well thanks for the reply and as soon as I know more about these lights I will post the results.

Thank,

Mike Bernstein

http://entertainment.webshots.com/album/558662070YwnSZy
http://entertainment.webshots.com/album/558379462TCwKQO
http://entertainment.webshots.com/album/558378075zxyApw
http://www.onesteadicam.com/mods4sale.html