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NEWS thin-profile fixtures, which allow the user to swap between daylight and tungsten balance lamps using the company’s True Match fluorescent tubes. The BarFly “draws almost no current, and can slide into a bookshelf or hidden behind a desk. You can do a lot of things with it and hide it almost anywhere in a scene,” according to Scott Steukle, director of marketing and sales at Kino-Flo. K 5600 designed its lighting systems around HMI technology. “The video cameras react well to daylight color-balance,” said Gilles Galerne, K 5600 president. “And you don’t have all the filtration you have to use to convert tungsten lights to daylight.” The company offers a range of accessories for the basic light fixture that are often purchased in a kit. But Galerne said a news photographer might find that since 90-percent of his assignments are standup photography, a simple K5600 lamp might be all he needs to start with, and can add accessories selectively as he needs to. Frezzi’s Crawford said that while there is a lot of buzz about new technologies like LED on-camera lights, “the people in the know use HMIs.” At the 2008 IBC, Frezzi introduced a new Micro-Sun Gun X2, a compact cameratop HMI fixture that has nearly twice the brightness and battery life of the original, featuring a dual-power switchable ballast and specially designed optics for 80-degree beam angle to fill the wider screen of HD cameras. As for those who want to shoot with LED lights, Frezzi now provides MR11 and MR16 LED lamp assemblies that plug directly into the company’s tungsten-based Micro-Fill and Mini-Fill oncamera light fixtures. These LED lamp assemblies can be purchased in a range of color temperatures. Sachtler engineered its Reporter 8LED light to provide a flexible oncamera light fixture that can easily be relamped for daylight or tungsten color balance conditions. “It’s one single 8 watt LED, not a cluster of LEDs, so it’s got all of the advantages of a single source light without casting multiple shadows,” said Ali Ahmadi, product and marketing manager for Camera Dynamics, which markets Sachtler products in the United States. The Reporter 8LED also features optical modules placed in front of the LED to allow a news photographer to quickly change the beam angle, and comes with a 4-leaf barn door system that sports a built-in clip to attach filter material or diffusion material. The light has an input range of from 6 to 24 volts, draws 8 watts, and operates cool to the touch. PAG’s on-camera lights are built to be quickly adaptable to the range of lighting conditions a news photographer will face during the day. “The key to the PAG lights is that the lamps are completely interchangeable,” said Ste-Man’s Manios, U.S. marketer of PAG lights. “You’re a news photographer out running and gunning, and you’ve got the HMI bulb in,” he said. “All of a sudden you come indoors, and you can take out the HMI bulb and put in a halogen bulb for indoor shooting.” He pointed out that with a choice of tungsten balance bulbs ranging from 20 watts to 50 watts, a photographer can choose the right amount of output so that he isn’t providing too much light when shooting a closeup of talent or interview guest in cramped quarters. And the PAG light design features cooling louvers that allow the light body to quickly shed the heat generated by various bulbs. There’s daylight color balance, at 5600 degrees K, and tungsten at 3200 degrees K, but a news photographer quickly learns that there’s a range of fluorescent, mercury vapor and other light sources in auditoriums and so forth with color temperatures all over the map. Litepanels has just introduced a new LED lighting fixture, the 1X1 Bi-Color, which quickly switches from a 3200 degree K tungsten to a 5600 degree K daylight source, or to any color temperature in between to match odd ambient light situations. “This means you can work in either daylight or tungsten conditions without having to carry separate fixtures, re-lamp fixtures with different color temperature bulbs, or use lightrobbing filter material,” said Ken Fisher, Litepanels partner and co-founder. The 1X1 Litepanels design is a 1-foot by 1-foot array of LEDs that provides a soft light source using less than 10-percent of the energy needed to power traditional lighting fixtures. It can be powered from a battery pack for portability, or with an AC adapter. In addition to changing color temperature via a knob on the back of the fixture, a builtin dimmer provides dimming through a zero to 100-percent range with minimal shift in color temperature. IDX looked at the challenges news photographers faced and developed an on-camera light in response. “We are concentrating on low-power consumption but high performance light,” said IDX’s Iwamoto, who points to the company’s X5-Lite, a daylight balance LED fixture, as a solution. “We have an almost 50-watt equivalent light now in the market that will take only 12 watts of power consumption,” he said. 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TV Technology - January 7, 2009

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