EventDV: in this issue.(video recordings)

When Jan Ozer's contribution to this issue of EventDV, "Traveling Light," came in at novella length, I'd have certainly cut him short if the article hadn't turned out to be a veritable manifesto for achieving pro-level lighting illusions on an airtight budget. Of course, the effects you achieve with shop lights and hardware-store diffusion kits will look better on tape than the low-end gear may look to your client when you unpack it on site, but Ozer gets to that perception issue too--all I can say is read on.

Is perception nine-tenths of the law? Some videographers see