Film Set Lighting Apps

Straying away from my normal blog about film lighting, I am going to be talking about a useful app I found the other day called set Lighting by Enlightened Shenanigans. Set Lighting is an IPhone app that is meant for Director of photography’s, Gaffers, and anyone on the G & E teams. This app has a catalog of any and all Film lighting and electrical we use in the industry today.

        Set Lighting has it all; from looking up information on certain lighting fixtures from Kino to the new ARRI LED lights. If you thought you are intrigued just by that, you also have an area you can look up specs on a condor lift to a scissor lift.

         For all you new bees, say you see something on a truck and you don’t know what it is, simply open set Lighting on your IPhone and find what you are looking for. With pictures of the object your looking for or searching, you should have no problem finding them.

        Normally all lighting apps stop there, but not with set Lighting. You have cheat sheets for distro such as; amp chart, volt drop per 100 feet and max ampacity. It shows distro examples on how to lay out distro on a set. As well as teaching you how to tie knots. Not to mention set Lighting shows you jell swatches and tells you why you should use them.  I can go on and on about how setLighting can help you, but you would have to buy this app for your self. I feel the $9.99 price tag is a great price for this app. You will not find a better app anywhere else. All I can say is, I wish I had this app when I was a new Electric on set.    

Kino Flo LED Celeb 200

            Kino Flo LED Celeb 200 is the new talk of Kino lighting systems. And don’t let the 200 get to you. This beauty of a light pushes out a 750w light and with being dimmable to 1% to 100% with out flicker and no color shifting is very impressive.  But that’s not the best part of the Kino LED Celeb 200.
              With the normal Kino lighting, you have to always change out the bulbs to get the color temp to where you want it, as well keeping the bulbs in stock is another challenge after the new guy on set drops and breaks the bulbs. But not with the Kino Celeb, you can go from 2700K to 5500k and anywhere in between with just one of the five preset buttons or turning the knob. As well as the light levels do not change when selecting kelvin settings. Not to mention you can scroll to pretty much any color temp you want from 2700K to 5500K.
              





Celeb 200 is lightweight fixture that operates on universal AC power, 100VAC-240VAC, and needs only one amp to produce more lumens than a 750W tungsten soft light.  The Celeb 200 LED can also be powered by 24VDC battery. So for all you guys that do a lot of car mounts, the Celeb 200 is perfect. The Celeb 200 also comes with a built-in reflector, removable gel frame and a 90 deg honeycomb louver. The molded accessory holders hold the gel frame and louver and also allow for a 4-point rope hang. The 3000ish price tag is a great price and anticipating the daily rental rate to be about $125/day. One thing I can say about Kino is that they listened to their costumers and went up and beyond and created one amazing light. Can’t wait to see more LED’s from Kino.