28 TVBEurope Best ofIBC2013: Lighting
Brother, Brother & Son — Force V: This has a new chip that “enables us to reach a much higher CRI,” said CEO, Peter Plesner. While many ‘Tungsten’ LED lights are now in the 90-92 CRI (colour rendering index) range, this light quality is much harder to achieve for ‘Daylight’ lamps, but “70% of what we supply is 5600K, so it’s been very important for us to get that temperature right.” The new Force V studio lights have a CRI of 95 (up from 74) at 5600K and 94 (up from 83) at 3200K. Each costs €1500.
www.brothers-sons.dk
Plesner: The new Force V LED lights have made “a big leap” in quality
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Flil-Lite — Slimline LED soft lights: These ultra-thin modular lights are made up of one or more 60x60cm light squares and use peripherally-mounted LEDs and a special diffusion screen to provide softer, more uniform lighting than first-generation backlit LED panels. The edge mounting enables Fill-Lite’s squares to be thinner than other LED systems (at just 1.25cm thick), and they use specially selected LEDs for better colour quality. “On-location shooting and photography in tight spaces has needed a compact, low-power and high-quality lighting solution for a long time,” said Owen
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VMI thinks it’s the One: Photon Beard sales manager Mike Perry and Bassett sealed the deal at IBC
Photon Beard — Square One:
VMI.tv, the London-based camera rental company, bought ten of these new full-spectrum, 1x1 (30x30cm) light panels at the show for location productions. “People want to have brighter panels that are small, lightweight and convenient — this is very important — that must work off mains and battery, and up until now 1x1 Litepanels have been the standard issue,” said VMI’s MD, Barry Bassett. In the Square One they have “an equivalent product with a smaller footprint and twice the light output. It’s different technology, but it does the job and is very soft and competitively priced,” at £595. Bassett thinks that the Square One will be particularly suitable for documentaries.
www.photonbeard.com
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Cutting edge: Stephens designed the Fill-Lite to be thinner than normal
Stephens, SOC, Fill-Lite’s founder and president. “Frustrated with the shortcomings of other LED-based soft lights, I decided to design my own.”
www.fill-lite.com
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Ianiro — 7000 Varibeam: Traditional red heads have been a broadcast mainstay for decades, despite high heat output and power requirements. Users still want the bright output and good colour characteristics, but without the problems. “With the Varibeam LED, there’s no compromise whatsoever; the photometrics are quite outstanding. The light output is phenomenal, delivering up to 1388 lux at 2m, while the dimmer operates with virtually no colour shift at all,” said Nick Allen-Miles, managing
Space saver: Collias demonstrates the
collapsible F8 LED Fresnel
No longer a hot head: Ianiro’s new 7000 Varibeam LED light
director, Ianiro International. “It’s cooler, more economical and more durable. With standard AC and 12v DC units available, we can also give producers more flexibility.”
www.ianiro.com
Zylight — F8: This compact new LED Fresnel light folds flat (collapsing to less than 10cm thick) for easy transport and storage, and comes in 3200K or 5600K versions, with a CRI of 97 or better. “The bellows allow it to be fully water protected,” said Charlie Collias, SVP Sales. “In a traditional Fresnel the lens stays fixed and the light moves; in the F8 it’s the opposite.” It has an adjustable beam spread (16-70˚), maintains a single shadow, and draws only 100 watts for the light output of a traditional 1000W Fresnel, so can be used with a standard 14.4v camera battery. It can be wirelessly controlled, or via DMX.
www.zylight.com
Beyond the scope: Rotolight CEO Rod Gammons shows off the tiny new Spectrascope
Rotolight — Spectrascope: Rotolight sold a lot of these tiny €99 optical spectrum analysers at the show. You just look at a light through it to see where on the spectrum it is, showing any gaps and spikes. It shows that most cheap LEDs are very heavily weighted to the blue part of the spectrum. Rotolight created it mainly to show off the full spectrum spread offered by its revamped Anova V2 Bi-Colour LED lights, which now boast enhanced colour rendering and 3.5 times brighter output (the equivalent of 3.5kW but only drawing 38W power). The Anovas can now also be a DMX hub, with up to 512 slave lights controlled through it (all set up via a simple iPad or iPhone app).
www.rotolight.com
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