F&V ultra-color LED panels – CRI = 95 !!!

The respected lighting & accessories company F&V just updated their LED panel line-up. Additionally to their good quality affordable large and compact LED’s they’ve added ultra-high CRI (color rendition) panels to the mix. Nice!

We’ve been following the development of F&V lights very closely over the past years and this has several reasons:
- Even their affordable LED lights had very good CRI values (85). The 3 light kit for example
- Their lights have very strong light outputs.
- Their lights are very affordable. The 3-light kit for example goes for $1000 (LINK)
- The lights might not look supercool, but their built quality is solid and lightweight.

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IBC 2012 – The Litepanels sola eng LED light kit

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So what are these Litepanels Sola lights you wonder? Me too, so I had Ali from Litepanels explain that to us at IBC.

This looks like a nice light kit considering that according to the manufacturer these daylight lamps offer an output comparable to a 100W HMI.

The Sola lamps are 30W LED lights in a fresnel-like single light enclosure, much like the Arri L7-C we saw yesterday (LINK).

The Sola ENG kit has the following in it:
- Sola ENG x3
- Gel Kit (Set of 3) x3
- Ball Head Shoe Mounts x3
- Shoe Mount Conversion Kits x3
- Barndoors x3, AC/DC Power Supply x3
- AC/DC Power Cord x3, TVMP Mount x3
- D-Tap Cables x3, Nano Stands x3
- Pelican 1510 Case with Custom Foam
- Lastolite Fold up Soft Box, Diffuser

The Sola ENG kit is currently $2695:

IBC 2012 – Arri’s L7-C – the light fixture from the future

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Arri is one company that keeps being successful at what they do. Their stuff just works and is extremely reliable. They offer some of the best quality in our field of work and come up with new devices every year. Here’s a new lighting fixture that I found very intriguing.

The L7-C is an LED light that is built to imitate the characteristics of a typical fresnel lens. So it gives you the nice varying beam at a very low weight.
What is special about the L7-C is that you can tune in any color you desire which makes using gels obsolete and gives you full control over your image in a very simple and cost effective way.

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IBC 2012 – F&V’s 169€ Ringlight and 1000€ 3-panel lightkit

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Here are two very nice products by a company that makes great stuff for the low budget. F&V manufacturers some great led lights and they are among the few companies that I know actually manufacture their stuff themselves and they have their own US and EU store.

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