Saturday, April 28, 2012

Cool Lighting at NAB 2012

NAB is always full of lighting equipment, but there were three new lights that caught my eye this year. I previously blogged about the Zylight F8 LED Fresnel light, and today's entry is on new lights from Zacuto and Rotolight.




Utilizing new microplasma lighting technology, the Zacuto Plazma light is a softer, more powerful fixture than LED, but has the same benefits of LED in that it consumes very little power. Think of it as a LED and Chimera love-child. Coming in Julyish for around $1350.



Those clever guys at Rotolight in England have come up with quite an incredible LED light - sure it's powerful and bi-colour, but we've seen that before. But this light has WiFi, so you can control it from your iPhone! Yes, there is an app for that. But not only can you control colour temperature and light output from your iPhone, it has new Magic Eye technology. What is Magic Eye? Using your iPhone or iPad, you can sample the colour of the ambient light in the room, and transmit that colour to the Anova light, which will then reproduce it. Far out! And not only can it do that, you can sample light from around the world, and send it to the Anova light. So you want the exact colour temperature of the sunset in Tuscany, while filming in a studio in Vancouver, this light can do that. Available shortly for around $2900.