GEAR
LIGHTING SPECIAL
GLOW AND BEHOLD
With so many dazzling LEDs hitting the market, we put the hottest, yet coolest-running innovations in the spotlight’s glare
WORDS ADAM DUCKWORTH
J ust when you think you’ve seen everything in lighting – from large panels with electronically adjustable diffusion, to full-colour RGBWW tubes controlled by apps – comes yet another slew of cutting-edge LED creations. The biggest news in recent times is all about powerful hard lights with COB technology. Instead of separate LED bulbs, which most of us are used to, these ‘chip on board’ lights employ multiple LED chips
bonded closely together to form a smaller, single module. These COB set-ups not only produce serious power, but are much closer to punchy, hard, single-point sources than larger panels, due to their small size. This makes them far easier with traditional photo-style modifiers such as softboxes, projectors and gobos. Or alongside high- performance reflectors to generate strong light that fills in shadows, even outdoors on sunny days.
“The biggest news in recent times is all about powerful hard lights with COB technology”
As well as COBs, we shine a light on RGBWW bulbs that are ideal practicals in indoor scenes, an affordable tube light and much more. Welcome to our LED special – it’s a midsummer light dream!
PANEL SHOW The Litepanels range grows ever larger, with a bigger 2x1 hard LED
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