Monday, 24 November 2014

Production Skills - Examples of Lights Available: Purchasable from Cinelight


Tungsten Lights


Open face lights - Redhead 300 watts is a tungsten-halogen quartz fixture made from high quality lightweight aluminum with high efficiency aluminized reflector that provides high intensity in a small package. These type of fixtures are well known for their durability in time, portability and luminous efficiency. For use in Television news coverage, and Television film commercials as well in motion picture and industrial film. Excellent for use in small TV studios or stages in schools and universities. You can use this light on location to bounce into ceilings, into walls, or into bounce cards  to obtain a soft ambient in the room and also this is an ideal instrument to attach a small or an extra small chimera light bank for a soft fill or a beautiful key light.

Fresnel lights -  Fresnel 300 watts is the ideal, compact and lightweight fixture to work with, being designed to create a relatively even field of light. Short focal length lenses with wider angles give more light output and better light distribution over the full beam area. The adjustable focus makes it quick and easy to obtain the desired intensity or beam width so you can use it in flood position to get clean, hard shadows or in spot position when even light is desired. Wide range of accessories available: barndoors, filter frame, scrims, snoot, safety cable, speed-ring adapters and softboxes. Fresnel lights are the most commonly used lighting fixtures on the TV and film production sets.

Spacelight -  3K consists of three 1K nook lights configured like spokes of a wagon wheel, pointing down into the white diffusion silk cylinder. At the bottom of silk cylinder is a round diffusion ring to which a diffusion material or gel can be clipped. The lamps can be individually controlled either on a dimmer or by individual on/off switches at the distribution point. The Space Light provides overall scattered light for interior scenes. Excellent for 'exterior' settings where they simulate skylight, or large-area lighting; its use for most interiors is questionable. Spacelights are commonly hung throughout a very large set to fill the space with a general soft overhead illumination. The white silk skirt can be used for a multi-directional chinese lantern look. The black silk skirt can be used to direct that soft light downward creating a pool of soft light.


HMI & CDM


Fresnel Lights - Compact 200 HMI light is a compact, rugged, high output Fresnel designed for use in the TV/Film industries where an intense even field of light with sharp cutting capabilities is desired. Utilizing the compact single ended line of Metal-Halide lamps (HMI*), the luminaire delivers excellent daylight quality from a small, compact package and is useful in any situation where daylight color balance is required. The Cinelight Compact 200 is focusable from spot to flood and can be used as a daylight booster, keylight, or fill-light. The Cinelight Compact construction of corrosion resistant extruded and die cast aluminum maximizes body strength while maintaining the light weight of an ideal location fixture. Despite the small size, short focal length lenses with wider angles give more light output and better light distribution over the full beam area. The Cinelight HMI electronic ballasts provide the latest standards in ballast technology. Flicker free, low noise, high output, this ballast is ideal for most demanding. A rugged and compact design offers easy handling in the field. Safety circuits such as over-voltage, over-temperature and short-circuit protection gives safe and reliable operation dimming to 50% of full power. Active Line Filter (A.L.F.) and P.F.C assures consistent color output, despite dimming, or main voltage fluctuations. Universal voltage at a switch of a button and flicker free mode. Compatible with all 200W Fresnel and PAR units.     For transportation it is included a hard case that can accommodate the HMI Fresnel lamp head, electronic ballast, power cable and barndoors. HMI fixtures provide a daylight-balanced light, which is essential in many cases (for example, when an artificial light needs to mix with natural daylight or when tungsten-balanced scenes require blue “moonlight”). Another common application is making sunlight effects through window, both on location and inside a studio. They may be put through diffusion or bounced to create a large, bright soft source.

Par Lights -  The Cinelight PAR HMI lights are fantastic instruments on location. These fixtures can be used to light background elements, diffused or bounced into a white sheet for soft fill to light talents (PAR lamps are usually too hard sources for lighting faces).  PAR lights are more efficient than Fresnels, and they deliver a strong punch of light with a longer throw.

These lighting instruments are commonly used to light large spaces at night, giving a little more depth to  the night scenes, and also in situations requiring a far reaching, intense beam. Whenever punch or bounce light is required on a set, the Cinelight PAR is the ultimate answer.

PAR  lights have clear, UV protective glass in front and require separate spreader lenses to be placed in front for wide flood, medium flood, spot and narrow spot variations, in order to obtain the desired beam configuration. The spreader lenses affect both the shape and angle of the beam. The lens are available to purchase separately. As with any HMI fixture, The Cinelight HMI PAR light requires a ballast in order to function. The Cinelight HMI ballasts provide the latest standards in ballast technology: flicker free at any frame rates, low noise, high output, dimmable by 50% of the output light,  active line filter (A.L.F) and power factor correction (P.F.C), all  this make this ballast ideal for most demanding. A rugged and compact design offers easy handling in the field. A hard plywood case it is included for transportation. The case accommodates the HMI PAR lamp head, electronic ballast, power cable and barndoors.


Fluorescent Lights


Studio Lights - Studio Cool fluorescent lighting systems are the newest way to have continuous lighting in your studio without the incredible heat generated by the old tungsten lights. Studio Cool 4 x 55W is a soft light source, having constant color temperature and low energy consume without heat radiation. The unit is equipped with smooth, long life, high luminous efficiency tubes available in choice of 3200K (warm tubes) or 5600K (daylight tubes). The fixture is equipped with an integrated professional ballast that ensures long life, very low noise, stable Kelvin color temperature, power factor n>0.95%, THD<15% and has an output driving frequency of 40khz to guarantee flicker-free performance.  The power plug  connects to the fixture  through IEC socket and to the wall socket through a CEE 7/4 (Schuko) plug. The power cord has a in-line ON/OFF illuminated switch. Adjustable output via 2 on/off rocket switches located on the back panel of the fixture that control each group of 2 lamps. In this way the light output can be adjusted from 100% to 50% without changing the kelvin color temperature or making fluorescent lamps to flicker. The Cinelight Studio Cool fixtures are the professional choice for all types of visual media production from photography to film and video work. This type of fluorescent lights are the most common TV lights on local and national TV stations. Can be used mounted on stands or suspended from the ceiling. The Studio Cool series are recommended for permanent TV studio applications, interviews, TV shows, news, product presentations, chroma key and other events. Comparative with FloLight the Studio Cool has a slightly higher output and further throw thanks to specular mirrors on barndoors and interior reflector and deeper body..

Portable Lights -  The CineFlo line of fluorescent fixtures from Cinelight Equipment is one of the most common fluorescent light type used on big productions studios, in still photography and movie pictures. The whole CineFlo line is designed to make your life easier, to make you work faster and more accurate, and take some of the guest work out of it. The CineFlo fluorescent fixture provides soft, cool, flicker-free light like a bounce-source, and has also the features to control the intensity and spread of the light emitted, by using the built-in barndoors and included louver or other accessories available from third parties. The fixture is designed so that, if the whole fixture is too bulky for a particular application, the tubes, wiring harness, and reflector can be quickly stripped out of the fixture and employed in any number of configurations as needed. The fixtures are lightweight enough to tape to a wall.  The housing is made from polycarbonate and has reinforced ends, making it resistant to the every day abuse on the set. The lamps, being the most important component of this fixture, give several color temperatures, primarily the daylight and tungsten. It is very portable, and the lamps take almost no power so it is a very low power consumption. When you’re on a location the beauty of using these lights is that you can walk into a situation when you got a lot of daylight in the room and you can lamp them daylight or you can get into a situation when you’re working in a studio for the day so you can lamp them tungsten. The barndoors close for transport or for shipping and they protect the instrument; they open up and act as barndoors. The louver will help you to control the spill. Because the light is so soft and diffused, the light spreads out to vary wide beam.  The louver is attached using Velcro and can be pulled off completely. The detachable lamp harness has 4 different individual cables, one to each lamp and they’re shorten to the length and color labeled so that each one only goes to one lamp. This way you won’t have any confusion of what goes where. The mounting system for the 2ft 4bank is an omni-mount (MTP-K41) and it’s called the universal mount because it is for the single, double and 4 bank systems and that would be up to a 4ft size. The omni-mount has four capture points and a secure lock pin. This mount is designed to work on a grip head allowing you to position the fixture in virtually any position. With the optional baby-receiver mount (MTP-B41) you can get the grip head off and mount it directly on the top of the stand. The ballast is manufactured from high quality components with performance and durability same as  higher cost competitors. The ballast is designed to operate the lamps at 24'000 Hz, 400 times faster than traditional ballasts. The reason for that is that it is a very high frequency and it keeps out of range of a normal 60 Hz pattern which creates flicker, very critical when you’re shooting films. Flicker free at any shutter speed. The ballast has 4 separate switches to control each lamp individually so you can adjust the light output without color shifting the lamps color temperature (K). CineFlo Bank Select ballasts (four-bank and double-bank) feature an additional high-output/standard-output toggle switch. Use the high-output setting for 4-ft (75W) lamps and the standard setting for 2-ft (40W) lamps so you can use the same ballast on 4FT fixtures and 2FT fixtures.  Includes an easy to change power fuse that protects the ballast against electrical shocks. These instruments are truly the workhorses of the industry, for all blue/green screen work all over the world, regardless if it is a motion picture, commercial or any other field.


LED Lights


Camera LED -  The CamLED 144 Bi-Color is a compact, yet powerful, on-camera LED light that combines the cool to the touch LED technology with the ability to adjust the beam in both color and intensity. On CamLED 144 Bi-Color the color temperature can be varied from 3200K (warm color) to 5600K (daylight color) using the built-in variable switch that mixes the 72 pcs 3200K LEDs with the 72 pcs of 5600K LEDs. The process is controlled by a microprocessor that ensures constant brightness of unit and smooth transition between colors or dimming. The Cinelight CamLED 144 Bi-Color kit comes with everything you’ll need in a handy Cordura bag: lamp head, Li-Ion battery 2200mAh, charger AC 100V-250V and DC 12V, diffusion acrylic filter, pan-head. The system offers an efficient snap-on battery - Sony DV mount. This broad lighting source is ideal to be mounted on a camera or any place that calls for a highly portable softlight. Measuring just 13.5 x 8.5 x 3.5 cm, the head weighs only 200g. The Cinelight CamLED 144 housing comes outfitted with an integrated camera shoe mount. An additional metal pan-head is included in the kit to allow panning and tilting the CamLED when mounted on camera. The same pan-head allows the unit to be mounted on a light stand using the 1/4" thread.  For multi-panel configuration the CamLED is designed to be stacked as bricks or, using the optional T-Bar, a large LED panel can be created on a light stand. This simple to use LED light is the perfect fixture to use for both photo and video applications, suitable for indoor and outdoor photography.The great qualities of this new lighting fixture can make the Cinelight CamLED 144 to become an integral part of television, broadcast news & motion picture productions worldwide.



Studio LED -  The CineLED Box 4FT 4Bank combines all the benefits of LED technology with the most common fluorescent light design used on big productions studios. The CineLED Box 4FT 4Bank  fixture provides soft, flicker-free light like a bounce-source. The built-in barndoors and the included louver help shaping the light spread and also protect the LED tubes during transport. The CineLED Box consists of the 4FT lamp housing with wiring harness and reflector, the Bi-Color LED tubes and the externaldimming & DMX ballast. The main advantage of using this type of light is given by the 4 FT Bi-Color LED tubes relative to the traditional fluorescent lamps. The LED tubes are significantly less fragile than the fluorescent lamps due to their unique construction: aluminum shell with "milk" (very soft) diffusion cover. This type of housing has the advantage of maintaining the same light characteristics as the fluorescent tubes.  The expected life time of the 4FT LED tubes is 25 times higher than on the Kino Flo True Match lamps (50'000 hours of continuous use instead of 2000 hours) that translates to significant savings when using the CineLED Box. Just multiply 25 lamp changes with the cost of a single fluorescent lamp and the price difference will be noticeable. Above all, the 4FT LED tube has both 3200K and 5600K LEDs in one housing that can be switched and combined by a single push of a button, eliminating the elaborated process of re-lamping the fixture to change the color temperature. The high CRI (90+ RA) SMD LED tubes provide a flicker-free experience at high speed rates (studio tested at 3000 fps).  Also, the 4FT LED  lamps draw less power than a fluorescent lamp (40W instead of 75W) while providing a higher light output. The external ballast with integrated DMX digital controller is manufactured from high quality components with great performance and durability.  The built-in digital display shows the brightness values and the DMX address and allows the user to save different lighting presets. The built-in dimmer control helps dimming the light output from 100% to 0% while maintaining a constant color temperature. The CineLED Box 4FT can be powered from external batteries using the BVCU adapter when shooting in locations with limited or unavailable AC power source. The CineLED Box 4Ft housing is made from polycarbonate and has reinforced ends, making it resistant to the everyday use on the set. The fixture itself is lightweight enough to be taped on the wall so handling this type of light shouldn't be a problem to no one. Sharing the same construction design as CineFlo / Kino Flo 4FT 4Bank, the CineLED Box 4Ft 4Bank fixture housing, harness, cables and accessories are cross-compatible.

Fresnel LED -   The Junior LED Fresnel's series provides a powerful, high quality and high CRI light that looks great with today's digital cameras. They are the ideal combination of classic Fresnel characteristics and all the advantages of latest LED technology. The fixtures have been designed on the same body chassis as traditional tungsten Junior series with consideration for the accessories users may already own from the incandescent models. Barndoors, scrim kits, filter frames, softboxes or snoots all can be used with the new Junior LED fixtures. The units are manufactured using the latest MASM technology (multi array surface mount) and adopt high quality and precise 3 layers optical elements for a clean and crisp beam spread. The Junior LED Fresnel fixtures are totally silent as no fans are used to cool down the LED; instead, a smart thermal cooling design with sealed gas is used as on high end computers. No fans means no noise coming from the fixture and virtually no maintenance is needed. The LED life span also reaches up to 50'000+ hours of use equivalent to 15 years of day by day use / 10 hours a day.  The full metal body housing is made using a series of light weight aluminum extrusions with aluminum corrosion resistant castings and steel parts ensuring a sturdy and robust construction for years to use in a professional environment. The Cinelight LED Fresnel's are equipped with built in DMX 512 controller with single, master & slave functions, allowing for the brightness and color temperature to be controlled remotely from a console making them perfect for TV studio installations, theaters, stages or conference rooms.  The lights run with low power consumption, so are extremely well suited to run on battery power, ideal for professional videographers, filmmakers and broadcast productions. Cinelight Junior LED Fresnel fixtures come equipped with a low voltage 24V DC socket for battery connection in addition to the main powered plug. Optional battery voltage converter unit (BVCU) is available for installing 14.8V V-Lock batteries to power the lights.  Shooting slow motion? No problem! The Junior LED series are flicker free and tested at 3'000 fps. Travelling all over the world? Again problem! The Junior LED series are universal voltage capable AC 90V-240V and the IEC connector allows for fast change of power cable with local models.



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