14 NEWS CINE GEAR REVIEW
Tube lighting is on the increase with new ones from Kino Flo , called FreeStyle LED tubes, for use in 4Bank, double and single fixtures and for stage design lighting. It features the same lighting management with RGBW and True Match white as the company’s FreeStyle 41, 31 and 21, Diva light range and the Celeb range. The FreeStyle 41 is a narrower and longer version of the 31. Other tubes come from Quasar Science with its Rainbow light (reviewed in this issue on page 63); Digital Sputnik with its Voyager and Astera ’s AX1 PixelTube. The AX1 is a pixel controllable tube with wireless DMX, long battery life and is app controllable. Hive Lighting was showing its cute line of stinging insect derived lighting including Bee, Hornet and Wasp. The Hornet 200-C uses only 150 watts, which rates as equivalent to a 650–1000W incandescent and 2.5 times brighter than the original Wasp
100-C. This, the company claims, makes it the brightest single point colour changing LED in the world. In the New York street setting, CW Sonderoptics team was looking for all the world like an F1 team, in natty red shorts and white shirts. All its superb lenses were on show, including the new Thalia range, ready for the large-format shooting explosion. On the opposite side of the street, which you’d recognise from the Austin Powers movies, Duclos Lenses ’ Matthew was showing his new Duclos 1.7x Expander, the saviour of the S35mm lenses intended for use in large-format cinematography. The Expander effectively increases the image circle of the taking lens, providing a narrower field of view but with great image quality. If you wanted a relief from the heat and also a quick tune-up of your Fujifilm XT camera you could visit the Fujinon booth and get a sensor clean and a general service of your camera – all day, every day. While you waited you could check out all the new cine lenses. The Global Cinematography Institute (globalcinematography. com) isn’t as scary as it sounds with its monthly education programme for cinematography. These are courses based on sound stages with professionals lending their experience and wisdom.
IO Industries was showing its Flare camera as part of a volumetric capture system. The camera offers a Raw signal and a size that allows for over 100 units to fit this type of new capture. MK-V Omega launched and demo’ed its new VR set simulation. This is a way of using film equipment on set without being there – but it’s not a gimmick. You can actually practise with equipment from Techno cranes to dollies and you can even import your own virtual sets so initiating gear set-ups before you get on the real set is a possibility. Like a video game you can also practise and rehearse with other crew members or trainees. At the show if you donned a VR headset you could use real crane wheels to rehearse moves. At the booth Disney Academy used the tool
ABOVE In the VR driving seat with MK-V Omega’s new VR set simulator.
BELOW No sting in the tail: Claiming to be the brightest single point colour changing LED in the world, Hive Lighting’s Hornet
A WAY OF USING FILM EQUIPMENT ON SET WITHOUT BEING THERE
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