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An interview from the 2014 PhotoPlus Expo in New York City with Rod Gammons of Rotolight. Rotolight is a rapidly growing family business based at Pinewood Studios, UK, specialising in the manufacture of multi award winning on-camera, studio and location LED lighting systems for photography, videography, broadcast and cinematography. Rotolight’s products have been used on major Hollywood productions including James Bond “Skyfall” and Tom Hanks latest multi-million dollar movie ‘Captain Phillips’, as well as by leading Photographers, DoP’s and Cinematographers worldwide. In this interview Rod talks with us about their latest light, the NEO LED.
The Rotolight NEO is a revolutionary on-camera or location LED lighting fixture designed for the most demanding of professionals. Featuring Bi-Colour LED lighting technology with best in class colour rendering, Neo is the world’s first on-camera lighting system with accurate electronic colour temperature display (CCT) to enable fast, tuneable colour on location. Neo delivers a powerful 1077 lux at 3 feet (twice that of competing LED on camera lights), whilst providing a gorgeous soft light source, along with industry leading on-camera battery performance and Rotolight’s signature ‘Ring-light’ Effect.
Neo builds on Rotolights multi-award winning LED technology which is used by leading broadcasters, filmmakers and professional photographers the world over including BBC, NBC, CNN, Disney and ITV to name a few. Providing a highly versatile solution for run-and-gun news shooters, filmmakers or still photographers, is easy to use and fast to set up, great on location or in a studio. NEO’s 120 LED’s offer full spectrum colour reproduction with an overall CRI=95 (Skin tone>98) and can be accurately dialled from 3150K to 6300K in ten degree Kelvin steps. Featuring an intuitive dual rotary encoder control system for rapid brightness and colour temperature adjustment in the field, and Rotolight’s ‘Dynamic Drift Compensation’ for smooth dimming from 0%-100% with no colour shift. Neo can be powered by 6 AA batteries for up to 5 hours(or 3 hours at 100% power), AC adapter or D-TAP cable, drawing only 9W at full power.
For more information please visit: http://www.Rotolight.com
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