Speaking of LED lights- Lightpanels just announced a very interesting new 1×1 panel that lets you adjust Color Temperature as well as Brightness.
This is a very nice feature, considering that the LED panels are cool to the touch (not like hot lamps) & require very little power. Its a little too expensive right now (About $2500), but this is a good sign of things to come as prices will definitely come down with time. I think their non-temp control 1×1 models run just over $1,500 and I saw one at Vincent Laforet’s workshop. It was extremely nice. Everyone I know that has used one has very positive things to say about them, the one major drawback: they have limited range.
If you haven’t already you might want to take a look at their website, they have a lot of great information about video lighting:
I found their “On the Set” Section to be quite surprising, there are a lot of big time productions that are using these more and more.
Thanks for coming on my show last night. Here is a link to the video I talked about where people can pick up a 500 LED panel for a little over $200. Emm has some pretty cool videos, http://cheesycam.com/?p=1730
Great find! I was at a red carpet event the other day, and finding myself displeased with the results of using a flash (as always). I stood next to a video guy who had one of these on his camera, and it provided such even, clean, flattering light…so I shot without a flash in that spot! Seems very useful for certain situations…