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diffuse surface of a Skypanel, Briklok is an array of tiny collimators like a Litepanels Astra or Creamsource Doppio. The sheer optical gain of that arrangement is huge, albeit at the risk of a little bit of shadow segmentation. PANALUX Rental outfit Panalux is also no stranger to high-power lights, and has introduced an LED soft light, the 1500W Sonara 4:4. At 38kg, it’ll be a crew-served weapon in much the same way as most upscale rental-only gear. Sonara covers a huge range of colour temperature from 1750 to 20,000K and while there is no saturated colour capability, it can produce what Panalux describes as “a wide array of pastel hues”, which is the sort of thing a big wash light might be asked to do on, say, a night exterior. Competing directly with the likes of Sonara is Chroma-Q’s Space Force twobyfour. It’s big – yes, around two by four feet – and heavy at 32kg, and rated at around 825W. That’s a lot of light in a space that size, and the company is pitching it not
only at the higher end of single-camera filmmaking, but also at broadcast studios. Chroma-Q has put together a number of high-power LED options in recent years, racking up arrays of Studio Force II battens to create the Brute Force, which it promotes, ambitiously, as a Wendy Light alternative. It’s increasingly the finer and finer details of designs that encourage people to specify one light over another
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