Rubber Donut
The RUBBER DONUT is used to put over the barrel of the camera lens.... and 'matte' the light that is seen
by the subject between the barrel of the taking lens and the EyeDirect lens port. Just like with an
Autocue/teleprompter, you want to provide a ‘black field’ behind the beam splitter for your subject to
look into.
1)
Here you can see the light 'leaking' around the lens barrel which
may be distracting to the subject.
a.
Unlike the use of a donut in a matte box system, the fear is not light from behind
the camera hitting the ‘filter’ as much as it is a courtesy to the subject to have an
unobstructed ‘reflection’ of the interviewer.
Interviewer Light
It is important to provide a bright ambient environment or a light for the interviewer. Subject
will need the supplemental lighting to help ‘cut through’ the lighting that is on them.
