ARRI Kit and LoCaster LED

Hello lighting people. I am going to be doing a write up on something that I know the most, which is ENG (Electronic News Gathering) lighting. You know those big ARRI kits that are in that big silver case that has four to five lights in them? Yes, I will be talking about that in my post today. 

Arri Kit

 Whether you are doing a sit down interview or a small indie film, the ARRI kits are the best to use. I use the ARRI kits for ENG sit down interviews. I personally use the ARRI kit that has the two 150’s, one 300, one 650 and one open face 1K with a chimera. With the lights in the kit I am able to do some really interesting interviews. I use the 1k with the chimera as my key light and a 300 or 150 as my back light depending on what the light is already doing as a back. If I want to create a fill, which I really don’t do because I use a technique called shadow side towards camera, but if I was to use a fill I would use a bounce board and use a 300 as a back light. 

Enough of my technique, lets get to whats in one of these kits. Depending on what your doing, you can customize your kits to what ever you want. you can have 150s to LED lighting. What ever you pick, your using ARRI which is a very reliable company and the lights are beautiful and controllable.  Mole Richardson is a great company and has there lighting kits also. But everyone I work with will not argue, Arri kits are the best to use due to being rugged and long lasting. 

LoCaster Kit

I am very interested to play with the LoCaster LED lighting that is part of ARRI's kits. The LoCaster LED panel has a 0-100% dimming function, as well as a 2800-6500k control that can be controlled from the fixture it self. But I am very concerned with the throw of the LoCaster, it’s throw is about equivalent to a 75w to a 100w light bulb. At the price you can get two LoCasters that range around $3,000 or you can having a five pice lighting kit with a Chimera for the same amount of money. As well having a fresnel lighting kit you have more control and creativity with the Arri five pice kit. 

Hope you guys got some good information from the Arri kits and the LoCaster. Till next time.

 Happy Lighting. 

The video Below shows the ARRI Kit I recommend. and what the Arri kit has in it.