The present disclosure provides a soft box supporting rod clamping seat, wherein the soft box supporting rod clamping seat comprises a frame body, a lock latch, a spring, and a connector. The lock latch comprises a limit hook and a first rotating part rotationally connected to the frame body, and the lock latch is limited to rotate within a preset angle by the frame body. The spring comprises a first end connected to the frame body and a second end connected to the lock latch. The connector comprises a hook and a second rotating part rotationally connected to the frame body, and the connector is used for installing a supporting rod. The technical solution of the present disclosure effectively solves the problems in the prior that a soft box base is complex in structure assembly, and clamping and folding of supporting rods are time-consuming and labor-consuming.

A contactless type optical device includes an image photographing module configured to photograph a subject, the image photographing module including a photographing lens forming an image of light that is scattered from the subject and is incident on the photographing lens; an illuminator configured to radiate illumination light, the illuminator being disposed within a predetermined distance from the image photographing module; a first lens configured to reduce an incidence angle of the illumination light traveling from the illuminator; and a second lens having a first surface to which the illumination light passing through the first lens is incident to be transmitted, and a second surface to which the subject's scattered light scattered from the subject is incident to be transmitted. The photographing lens is disposed such that the subject's scattered light passing through the second lens is incident on the photographing lens.

This disclosure relates to a handheld camera mount and reflector system. The reflector system includes a collapsible rod member having a collapsible reflector attached at one end of the rod. A handle is connected at the other end of the rod. A camera mount is attached to the rod between the reflector and the handle. The surface of the reflector can be adapted to adjust reflectivity, diffusion and color spectrum.

This disclosure relates to a handheld camera mount and reflector system. The reflector system includes a collapsible rod member having a collapsible reflector attached at one end of the rod. A handle is connected at the other end of the rod. A camera mount is attached to the rod between the reflector and the handle. The surface of the reflector can be adapted to adjust reflectivity, diffusion and color spectrum.

A chroma key screen (SL; SR) for arrangement along a side of a studio set comprises a plurality of vertically arranged louvres or slats (L), each angled in a direction (D) towards the front of the studio set. The screen (SL, SR) may appear to the studio camera to be a substantially continuous chroma key, but reflections (R) of the chroma key screen (SL; SR) from a window (W) or from objects (O) or people (P) within the studio set are reduced. This allows an improved augmented reality (AR) studio set to be created.

This invention concerns a method of filming a subject to be projected as a Pepper's Ghost image. The method may comprise filming a subject under a lighting arrangement having one or more front lights for illuminating a front of a subject and one or more backlights. The lights may be controlled such that the total brightness of the one or more front lights, as measured of the subject, is less than or approximately the same as the total brightness of the one or more backlights, as measured at the subject. The subject may be located directly above one or more floor lights such the subject is illuminated from below by the one or more floor lights.

This invention concerns a method of filming a subject to be projected as a Pepper's Ghost image. The method may comprise filming a subject under a lighting arrangement having one or more front lights for illuminating a front of a subject and one or more backlights. The lights may be controlled such that the total brightness of the one or more front lights, as measured of the subject, is less than or approximately the same as the total brightness of the one or more backlights, as measured at the subject. The subject may be located directly above one or more floor lights such the subject is illuminated from below by the one or more floor lights.

A lens device and an imaging apparatus that can emit illumination light coaxial with a lens optical system are proposed herein. A lens device includes an optical system that includes a first lens and a second lens forming an optical image of a subject; a first optical member that includes a frame that includes a plurality of aperture regions, a plurality of optical filters that include two or more optical filters transmitting lights having at least some wavelength ranges different from each other, and a plurality of polarizing filters that have different polarization directions; and a second optical member that is provided outside the optical system and closer to a subject side than the first optical member and emits illumination light, which is incident from the outside of the optical system, to the subject side via the optical system.

A lens device and an imaging apparatus that can emit illumination light coaxial with a lens optical system are proposed herein. A lens device includes an optical system that includes a first lens and a second lens forming an optical image of a subject; a first optical member that includes a frame that includes a plurality of aperture regions, a plurality of optical filters that include two or more optical filters transmitting lights having at least some wavelength ranges different from each other, and a plurality of polarizing filters that have different polarization directions; and a second optical member that is provided outside the optical system and closer to a subject side than the first optical member and emits illumination light, which is incident from the outside of the optical system, to the subject side via the optical system.

A softbox having a body with an integrated light-altering element. The light-altering element may have a body and an edge, where at least a portion of the edge of the light altering element is non-removably coupled to at least a portion of softbox body proximate to the softbox edge. The other portions of the edge may have attachment elements that couple to other portions of the distal edge of the softbox. Another light-altering element, such as a grid, may couple to the softbox by coupling to a cuff of the body of the softbox.