If you were to purchase just ONE light?

BVX said:
Thanks for the link and the demo Mitch. That is one very clever & innovative approach to lighting. It looks like it would be great in a flight kit and outdoors, but I'd worry about serious light spill problems indoors. Care to comment? Also, the nearing-$4000 price tag with a few attachments, a couple batteries & mounting plate is getting up there.
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The lenses are available in wide medium or spot (interchangable), so you control where the light goes. There are no spill issues as nothing comes out the sides. The open structure is for heat ventilation.

If you look at the pricing compared to other units with the versatility, punch, control and ability to run off batteries ... well, there are no other units like this.
 
Erik Olson said:
We rep most studio lighting manufacturers and I'm having some difficulty finding an Ianiro footprint in the USA. Looking into this!
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AbelCine is the US distributor for Ianiro products such as the IaniLED54. If your company is interested in becoming a reseller then you can contact me directly. Or the units can be purchased off our website.

http://www.abelcine.com/store/IANILED54-Complete-System-Medium-Flood-Lenses/

We do have a far more complete bundled kit that includes EVERYTHING one could want (I call it the Run & Gun kit) and it includes all the batery mounts, yolks, power supplies, lenses, diffusers, cables and even a Kata bag to hold everything. That's not on the website but you can email me or contact any of our sales staff and ask them about the bundles available for the IaniLED54.
 
Man... one light? I love my fresnels, but in your case, I'd get a 4 or 6 bank biax flo. I just got a 4-bank for under $300, brand new, killer light.

Keep an eye on eBay for used theatrical fresnels - I have four of the Altman/L&E models - nice lens, they're like $120 new, $50 used. Take up to 750. I have one gutted with an HID in it, kinda sweet.
 
Huy Vu said:
Just one light will never be enough. With that said, what you're talking about is basically an HMI fixture (daylight, high output, cool temperature) which is extremely expensive and bulky to carry around. That light that you linked is a fluorescent light which is not at all a flexible light to have. It's a soft light only, with limited throw (amount of light over a large distance). For all all purpose light, a tungsten fresnel is the most affordable. It's not daylight balance, energy efficient, or cool running, but it's a cheap hard light source that can be softened in a variety of ways.
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+1

A tungsten fresnel by far is the most versatile and affordable. It can be used to get a variety of effects from hard light, diffused and soft. It is versatile in that it can be mixed with indoor lights, or gelled for daylight mixing.

A powerful single light can be used to raise the overall light level of a room, it can simulate moonlight through a window, you can dim it and diffuse it with spun and use it as a fill light on your actor/talents face, at full power you can backlight a subject and use the spilt light to reflect as fill back into your subject faking a 2, or even 3 light setup.

Remember you can always turn hard light into softlight, but never turn softlight into hardlight.

If you really were only to purchase one light, go hard all the way!
 
If you were to get only 1 camera part would it be the lens, cam body or the rec button????? See how nonsensical the questions is? Now if you asked for examples of scenes where out of necessity only one light was used to light that specific scene and then asked for us to chim in why only that one light was used then we could have a discussion but asking which one-and only one light to get....
 
eco_bach - So tell us, what light did you decide on?

Patryk_Rebisz said:
If you were to get only 1 camera part would it be the lens, cam body or the rec button????? See how nonsensical the questions is? Now if you asked for examples of scenes where out of necessity only one light was used to light that specific scene and then asked for us to chim in why only that one light was used then we could have a discussion but asking which one-and only one light to get....
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The question is definitely not "nonsensical". Anyone starting out to learning lighting is best doing it with one light to start with. Sooner than you know it logic will kick in and you will start to see where it might be useful to place more lights to get more desired effects. Too often, people new to lighting buy a 3 piece lighting kit, turn it all on in 3 light position and end up blasting the scene lighting it flat.

Unless you have someone who can teach and show you how to do a multiple light setup, I still say start with one light that is versatile and you'll automatically learn what you need next.

Anyone intersted to see my one light setups doing photography, and in less cases two light setup have a look www.flickr.com/hingsberg

Have fun!
 
Well, neither under lighting the scene with one light or blasting it with 3 is a good idea. And telling a person who clearly knows noting about lighting to go and get one over another is not really helping either. Why is it that we stopped to value education? And i don't mean the expensive stuff we get at schools but the free tutorials one can find by simply searching the internet. Having seen some videos or reading a few articles the person would know more or less what to do with their 3-light kit and yes by having that super rudimentary knowledge start exploring the possibilities.
 
Nobody advocated for one-light really, and the OP wasn't necessarily asking to buy just one. Ideally, based upon what he's asking, I'd show him a 100w+ single-emitter LED Fresnel, at either 3200 or 5600K for about $500. That light is on the verge of happening, but it isn't here quite yet. Soon, though...
 
Consider getting a Source 4. It's a tungsten 750 watt light, but the output is roughly on par with a 1K. The beam is even harder than a fresnel, but you can make any hard light soft if you bounce or diffuse it. It costs less than a light of a similar wattage from Mole or Arri. It's ruggedly built, so it should last you forever if you take care of it. Pros in LA sometimes use nothing more than a single Source 4 bounced off a bed sheet to light interior rooms on large productions where they could afford anything.

I bought one, and have been very happy with it. I have another thread about it here.

No one light will be able to cover every single situation, but a Source 4 used properly can cover a lot of ground. And you can always add a China ball for a second light for practically no money later.
 
Thanks! Does it require its own power source? I'm a total novice when it comes to location lighting, but am nervous about blowing fuses
 
Sometimes, I do pack only one light... in that case, it's a RIFA 55 augmented with a dimmer, egg crate, gels (clipped to the diffuser), the "eX" Edison converter and a 4-way Edison splitter, depending upon the need, to use daylight or tungsten-balanced CFL's. Fill is typically covered by reflectors. Easily portable, usually powerful enough, and quick to set up and tear down - which is how I typically need a light to be.
 
I will get shot for this I am sure but what the heck, I would go for a Lowel Tota and speed ring with a Chimera. You can use it alone, with a gel frame, off a bounce, with an umbrella, you can barn door it, flag it and of course use it with the chimera and diffusion along with crates etc. It is cheap, lightweight and easy to transport.
 
BrianMurphy said:
I will get shot for this I am sure but what the heck, I would go for a Lowel Tota and speed ring with a Chimera. You can use it alone, with a gel frame, off a bounce, with an umbrella, you can barn door it, flag it and of course use it with the chimera and diffusion along with crates etc. It is cheap, lightweight and easy to transport.
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<grin> Pretty good.

I have ten of these very useful little things in my kit. How do you barndoor them? Not with the reflectors that look like barndoors, it's not only against the rules they melt. I've bought several of them that way. Do you use the clip-ons Lowel sells?
 
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