Welcome back to another week of FilmGear® sales! This week is dedicated to some of our most popular LEDs: The Apollo series, LED Profile, and LED Flo-Box. With bi-color options offering more efficiency than traditional globed lights without sacrificing quality. It’s easy to see why LEDs are replacing traditional globes.
The Apollo Series: Stating From $1,106
These LED powered Fresnel lights are simply ahead of the game. The Apollo series outperforms similar wattage Fresnel lights, both HMI and tungsten. These lights eliminate the need for separate HMI and tungsten lampheads altogether. No more warm-up times, no more scalding hot lights, and no more changing globes, unless you count having to swap a few LEDs once every 30,000+ hours (~3.5 years) of use.
The Apollo series comes in 500W daylight and tungsten, 300W bi-color, 150W bi-color, and 90W bi-color. Featuring the same ripple lenses in our HMI and tungsten fresnels, you get the same even distribution of light that you’ve come to expect from FilmGear®, without spottiness or fraying.
In addition to the quality of light, the Apollo’s raw output is simply unmatched. At full flood, the A150 gives 216fc at 10ft compared to the 135fc of other LEDs with similar power draws. Even the A90 doubles the output of other 90W LED film lights. In daylight, the 500W Apollo gives a similar output to a 1.2kW HMI fresnel. In tungsten, the 500W outshines a 2kW tungsten fresnel.
Each model comes equipped with an LCD menu to control dimming, color temperature, and fan speed. You have total say over the light’s intensity from 0%-100% in the “Dimming” section of the menu, eliminating the need to ever use scrims again. For even more control over your output, the Apollo offers 5 preset options for dimming curves: linear, exponential, logarithmic, S and TV. With adjustable color temperatures ranging from 2700K-6000K you have the full power of both daylight and tungsten at your disposal.
These lights stay cool because they have built in fans. Don’t worry, they aren’t noisy, but just to be safe, the LCD menu has fan options for auto, low-speed, and off, a feature the sound crew will really appreciate. The screen displays the temperature of the Apollo’s body in Celsius for full transparency in regards to the health of the light. In addition to keeping the set temp comfortable, the low heat of the Apollo allows you to get gels as close as you want to the light without setting off the smoke alarm.
If you’re the one loading and unloading the truck, then it’s worth noting that the heaviest Apollo weighs only 33lb and the 90W option is under 7lb. These lights don’t require a ballast either, so the set-up is minimal in both time and labor with this DMX compatible and daisy chain-able light.
Apollos come with 4-leaf barndoors and the options of soft boxes and filter frames.
LED Profile Series: Starting From $1,652
These spotlights normally see use on theater stages, but have their place on the DMX board of a clever gaffer. The FilmGear® Bi-color LED Profile series stands out from the competition with their low operating temperature and super long bulb life.
The LED Profile series are all based off our 300W LED lights but have different ellipsoidal reflector lens barrels to focus the light into a neat circle. These barrels come in fixed angles of 50°, 36°, 26°, and 19°, or in adjustable barrels that range from 25° to 50° or 16° to 28°, great for doing multiple shots with minimal setup.
The Profiles are great for shaping light to fit just what is needed for a shot. The integrated cutters and gobo adapter can shape the light to simulate a window or door without the need to set up more stands to hold flags and cutters.
The efficiency of the bulbs and the built in cooling fans lead to a much cooler lamp housing and set. The lower heat means they can be easily operated and moved on set with less time waiting for the lights to cool off. That combined with the handle on the back means that they can be easily aimed to exactly where they are needed.
Our LEDs have a rated bulb life of 30,000 hours! That's roughly 15 times longer than a traditional tungsten bulb and it means that you won’t have to get a ladder up to it any time soon to change the bulb.
Setting these lights up is a breeze. Each light in the Profile series takes so little power that you can daisy chain up to 5 of them together off of one outlet in a 110V 15A circuit, or up to 14 times if its a 220V 20A circuit (as always, check with your on set electrician first). Gone are the days of fiddling around with splitter cables at the top of a ladder, just get a boxful of cables and start chaining!
Save time on your next shoot and pick up a LED Profile today for 30% off!
Flo Boxes: Starting From $252.80
Even with the wave of LED panels that have taken over the industry recently, the LED Flo-Box remains the lighter, more durable, and more cost-efficient option. Against fluorescent Flo-Boxes, the LED Flo-Box is miles ahead for its durability, efficiency, and convenience.
The Flo-Box comes in 4-bank 4-ft, 4-bank 2-ft, 2-bank 4-ft, 2-bank 2-ft , and Singles(2-ft/ 4-ft), all weighing under 14lb. Even the heaviest Flo-Box will still be a quicker set-up than most panels on the market, without sacrificing much in the way of brightness. The Flo-Box will get you a nice soft output with the 4-bank 4-ft model giving off 38fc from 10ft, although the LED flo tubes are cool enough that your subjects can be much closer. This is the same output of a 300W fluorescent Flo-Box while only drawing 160W, making it almost twice as efficient.
Unlike fluorescent lights, the LED flo tubes are tough and won’t shatter if dropped, though we still wouldn’t recommend trying. Additionally, if you want to switch between tungsten and daylight with fluorescents, you will have to change the flo bank entirely. The LED Flo-Box is dual color so switching between 5600K daylight and 3200K tungsten is a flip of a switch. If you only need one color temperature, single color LED Flo-Boxes are available as well for 60% off.
For boxes with 4 banks, the power cable comes equipped with an additional on/off switch to toggle between four and two banks, which can be further dimmed with the dimmer knob.
Flo-Boxes also come in two kits: the Twin Kit and Mono-Flo Kit
Twin Kit:
2 Flo-Boxes
Dual LED Flo Tubes for each bank
2 Power cables
2 Mounting brackets
2 eggcrates
1 Carrying case
Carrying cases for the 4ft boxes come equipped with wheels.
Mono-Flo Kit:
2 bi-color LED Flo Tubes
Mounting bracket
Power cable
All Flo Boxes include mounting brackets, eggcrates, power cables with dimming switch and two on/off switches.
The Flo-Box will remain the go-to option for key lighting beauty shots and interviews due to its light weight, efficiency, durability, and affordability. Now at 30% off, this already low priced light can get even more bang for its buck.
LED technology is taking the film lighting industry by storm in the name of efficiency and versatility. Stay up to date now with a 30% discount and don’t forget to check in next week for more deals!
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