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LEFT LiteGear has launched two ranges – LiteMat and LiteTile, which can be built into an 8-by-8 or 20-by-20 frame.

We can take a 1.2KWHMI and get up to 500% more light out of it and outperform a 4KHMI

company has also tempted Ikea away from flash for stills photography and refit one of shopping channel QVC’s studios. For really high-power light, LEDs tend to be deployed in large arrays. Chroma-Q’s Brute Force light is described by brand manager Paul Pelletier as “powered with four or six Studio Force II 48” lights. “It gives you up to 144,000 lumens from only two 16-amp circuits. It can replace a quarter Wendy light.” Bold claims, but reasonable since each four-foot Studio Force batten is made up of 16 individually controllable segments for a total of 96 lights. Brackets are available to assemble four Brute Force clusters into something akin to a full Wendy light, though the focus at BSC Expo will be on the (comparatively) modest Brute Force 2 and 4, constructed from arrays of smaller Studio Force battens. LITEGEAR So, there are big LED lights, if not quite single, point-source options above a few hundred watts. LCA’s Nick Shapley thinks that “everyone is looking for the holy grail”. He adds: “It’s this very bright single point light source to make the ultimate LED fresnel and nobody’s done it. Nobody. [But] the world of LED is coming of age, rapidly. Next month, there’s an ARRI symposium where cinematographers and gaffers are invited to Germany to say what they’d like to see in the future. SkyPanel is one of the products that was originally shown at one of these symposiums. That’s where everyone is looking.” In the meantime, Shapley continues, applications that might once have used a

Finally, there’s new lighting technology not involving LED. Cirro-Lite’s David Morphy reports that Dedolight’s popular reflector-based lighting system is to see a new, servo-operated option for its reflective panels. Using a large parabolic reflector, the system, Morphy says, is highly efficient. “We can take a 1.2KW HMI and can get up to 500% more light out of it, bounce it off a reflector and outperform a 4K HMI. And you’ve negated the need for a boom arm and a generator. What we will be showing at the BSC Expo is the battery- operated reflectors with electric motors, so you can adjust from your phone.”

big fresnel are moving to newer technology via lateral thinking. “LiteGear has come out with two new ranges in the last year,” he says. “One is called LiteMat and one is LiteTile, which can be built into an 8-by-8 or 20-by-20 frame.” The result is a self- illuminating source that’s far easier to rig than the traditional fresnel bounced off or diffused through a textile. “When space, weight and time are against you, setting up a LiteTile is music to many people’s ears. It’s so much faster, cheaper, quicker, less power.” LiteGear’s upcoming LiteMat Spectrum, to be shown at the BSC Expo, adds colour mixing.

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