Sorry, just a little excited. This weekend I went down to LA to visit a friend and attend cinegear. My good friend and best man picked me up at LAX and we headed over to the Expo. I've missed the last 3, so I was excited to see what's new. Afterwards we stopped by Roscoe's House of Chicken and Waffles - YUM!
Here are some pictures from Cinegear:
Socal DP and best man E. G. Petersen at the Briese lighting booth with their 11' umbrella reflector: http://www.brieseusa.com/index.html
Element labs was also impressive. http://www.elementlabs.com/ They have a 5 phosphor led light that does near full spectrum lighting. Most are white LEDs only, some use RGB lights to make white, These guys add Magenta and Yellow to fill out the gaps. They also make a *very* cool led panel display that can be as large as a building and can display full color motion imges. This display was showing a quicktime movie off of a lap top.
Here is Eric getting a closer look:
Some other items that caught my eye:
A 58k light from the people at photosonics. No, not 58k color temp - 58 thousand watts. 58 1k bulbs packed tightly in a 2'x3' box! This thing can only be turned on for 10 seconds max before it starts to melt the diffusion screen.
http://www.photosonics.com/soft-box-lights.htm
Dragon Grips was cool with their ladder platform and cross beam-less dolly track:
http://www.dragongrips.com/
These guys had a cool aesthetic for a rental house:
http://www.monsterlighting.com/
The Nila LED lights were 1,200 Par HMI equivelents, with less power and almost no heat:
http://www.nila.tv/id6.html
And this is where old steadicam ops go to retire...
