blog.etcconnect.com: In 2016, a dedicated research team was formed at ETC to advance the technology of future product offerings. The team’s first primary project was to create the best light for use on camera. The findings from this multi-year, industry-wide study on color perception come together in the family of fos/4 panel lights. Three sizes, two arrays, and a feature-rich design.
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This article is amazing for many reasons. The first of which is because the topic is lighting and not only lighting but how color can be used in lighting. This is a topic of great interest to me. I also really like that this article included a video. The video highlighted and explained the new features that are specific to the fixture that this article was talking about. I really like how it not only explained that they added lime to the array of LEDs on the new fixture, but they also explained the science behind it. They also explained why they added it and altered the blue LEDs to make a light with the most available colors with the best quality. In my experience, I have gotten to work with the ColorSource series that the video was discussing so it was really great to learn about something that I was somewhat familiar with already. Usually when there is an article posted here about lighting, I have no clue what they are talking about but I love learning more about my field so I read it anyway, but this was great to expand my previous knowledge.
I have been reading about the release of this fixture for a while now on ETC’s social media and other websites and it really just looked like a really cool project. I’m excited to now see the specifics of its capabilities in this article. Watching the included video is really enlightening because it shows just the amount of work that went into the research for this light itself. I love that it is marketed as a light that could eliminate some editing in post production. It features a huge color spectrum where every mixed color is bright due to their additive color mixing system. There are built in effects in the light that allow you to do things like police lights without even programming the effect on a console. You can mix a color directly from the back of the fixture without a DMX connection, but they also built a wireless DMX transmitter directly into the light. The capabilities of this specific light are truly endless. While it was directly made for the film industry, I could see this fixture being used in a multitude of different industries.
The innovations exhibited by the release of this new lighting product by ETC is one that looks like it will improve the quality of the projects in which it is used. Color LED technology is one that has lots of room to grow and seeing the additions of a deep red and lime green seem to be effective. I wish I could have the opportunity to see just how well these fixtures work in comparison to fixtures that we have been used to for many years. I found James’ comment very interesting to read about, as well. I think the possibilities that this fixture provides will remove some limits that some people working in the lighting industry will feel. It will allow for new opportunities and new methods of accomplishing similar tasks and also making new ones possible with the greater degree of color accuracy. It is one cool light!
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