any lighting news?

Here was one I saw at NAB 2013 that really stood out. When I first saw it, all I could say was whoa !!!

http://www.zacuto.com/plazma-light
http://www.videomaker.com/videonews/2013/04/best-light-of-nab-2013-zacuto-plazma

It's unlike anything else I noticed at this years NAB. They announced these last year and still don't have them out on the market, so we'll see how they turn out. Now if they'd just build something similar in a 4"x3" adaptable to your camera batteries like some of the Lowel Blender kits.

Cheers,
Pete
 
Wow, my mug is all over that lighting roundup!

The Hive Plasma lights are very impressive, and for versatility and color quality the Cineo lights cannot be beat. But when one wants beam control with excellent color quality then the new one to really take a look at is Mole-Richardson with their new Quantum Dot LED fresnels. Excellent efficiency and classic Mole construction and flexibility, but now using quantum dot technology for terrific color spatial responce. These lights really look great.
 
Mitch Gross said:
But when one wants beam control with excellent color quality then the new one to really take a look at is Mole-Richardson with their new Quantum Dot LED fresnels. Excellent efficiency and classic Mole construction and flexibility, but now using quantum dot technology for terrific color spatial response. These lights really look great.
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They aren't Mole Maroon... What's up with that?
 
Actually, they're available in black, white (for installations such as galleries or houses of worship) as well as good old fashioned classic Mole maroon. One of the first questions I asked as well. ;-)
 
How do those remote phosphor and plasma lights perform in the very high frequency color range like lavender/purple? What's the excitation frequency from the LEDs behind the phosphor?
 
Mitch Gross said:
Wow, my mug is all over that lighting roundup!

The Hive Plasma lights are very impressive, and for versatility and color quality the Cineo lights cannot be beat. But when one wants beam control with excellent color quality then the new one to really take a look at is Mole-Richardson with their new Quantum Dot LED fresnels. Excellent efficiency and classic Mole construction and flexibility, but now using quantum dot technology for terrific color spatial responce. These lights really look great.
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Hi Mitch,

On Cineo's website they mention that the output of their HS is equivalent to a 4K tungsten softlight. What style of tungsten softlight would you liken their output to? An open face light through a chimera? One of those older style softlights with a bulb tucked away at the bottom of a metal reflector box?

Cheers
 
It's true of everything: it was supposed to be one way but turned out totally opposite. The internet was suppose to make us all smarter and well informed because of access to information but in turn made us even more dependent on advertising to tell us what's good out there and made up repetitors of over-heard trivia. The cheap cameras were supposed to make next Rembrandt out of all of us but in turn only created a field where we watch test videos and gear review rather then quality art. As a matter of fact artistic quality probably decreased because now that everyone can get a sliding hot makes that shot less meaningful then when say you had to set up cumbersome dolly. Moreover specifically because everyone can get a sliding shot then that shot in turn has lost its meaning and if someone is doing a sliding shot with a purpose then it disappears into totally obscurity of irrelevance.

Cheap gear influences the culture. The producers aren't stupid. If you can get "good enough" for cheap than why spend serious $$? And in turn why pay top $$ for that "good enough"? On top of that the clients for the most part are uninformed so for them the "good enough" is actually "fantastic" so again why pay top $$ for "better quality" if this is "fantastic" already?

Cheap gear allows us to shoot more, but more of what? Are we more relevant as a culture than we were say 10 years ago? Are better films being made? Is that Coppola's dream of some little girl making being next Mozart realized?
 
Patryk_Rebisz said:
It's true of everything: it was supposed to be one way but turned out totally opposite. The internet was suppose to make us all smarter and well informed because of access to information but in turn made us even more dependent on advertising to tell us what's good out there and made up repetitors of over-heard trivia. The cheap cameras were supposed to make next Rembrandt out of all of us but in turn only created a field where we watch test videos and gear review rather then quality art. As a matter of fact artistic quality probably decreased because now that everyone can get a sliding hot makes that shot less meaningful then when say you had to set up cumbersome dolly. Moreover specifically because everyone can get a sliding shot then that shot in turn has lost its meaning and if someone is doing a sliding shot with a purpose then it disappears into totally obscurity of irrelevance.

Cheap gear influences the culture. The producers aren't stupid. If you can get "good enough" for cheap than why spend serious $$? And in turn why pay top $$ for that "good enough"? On top of that the clients for the most part are uninformed so for them the "good enough" is actually "fantastic" so again why pay top $$ for "better quality" if this is "fantastic" already?

Cheap gear allows us to shoot more, but more of what? Are we more relevant as a culture than we were say 10 years ago? Are better films being made? Is that Coppola's dream of some little girl making being next Mozart realized?
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I am of the opinion the Lena Dunham's rise to fame pretty much validates the "How" of Coppola's assertion, in that her first film was made possible by the low cost/high quality technology available today ("Tiny Furniture" was shot with a 7D). I am not wholly satisfied that Ms. Dunham's success satisfies the "What" part of Coppola's quote; that content of significance will be produced. I have high hopes that "Upstream Color" may fit that bill. However, I think that Shane Carruth is a filmmaker who is obviously taking advantage of low cost/high quality gear but I think that he would still tell stories on his own terms whether the "DSLR Revolution" had happened or not. I think that FFC may have set the bar a tad high predicting a "...New Mozart...". Maybe with the state of our culture it might be a stretch to expect anything more than the next Hans Zimmer or a new Yanni...!
 
Due to my NAB visit the next on the list for me will be Kino celebs 200/400 to minimize traditional Kino tube inventory and the Arri L7Cs and Mole's LED Tweenie and Baby.

Dont care for the HEX units or the Hive ones at all. Looks like an engineer designed them. :lipsrseal

Touching on the previous, ill loose my ass on everything as people go without lighting out of ignorance.
 
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