The New Classic

We’re starting off this year’s Summer Sale with FilmGear®’s hottest new beam projectors: the daylight and tungsten Power Beams!

This family takes the classic beam light and expands it to a more modern lineup, featuring up to 18kW HMI and up to 24kW tungsten, with twin lamp support for every model. Their improved output is complemented by their thicker glass mirrors, built to withstand rough rentals and lifetime ownership, giving you bolder beams at longer ranges for decades to come.

This perfect fusion between old school lights and new school technology has got filmmakers everywhere excitedly welcoming their return. And what better way to celebrate their comeback than with 15% off on all Power Beams, from now until August 12, 2022.

The full Power Beam family includes:

Daylight:

  • 36" 18kW/12kW Daylight Power Beam with Wheeled Transport Case

  • 24" 9kW/6kW Daylight Power Beam with Wheeled Transport Case

  • 24" 4kW/2.5kW Daylight Power Beam with Wheeled Transport Case

  • 18" 1.8kW/1.2kW Daylight Power Beam with Wheeled Transport Case

Tungsten:

  • 36" 24kW/20kW Tungsten Power Beam with Wheeled Transport Case

  • 24" 12kW/10kW Tungsten Power Beam with Wheeled Transport Case

  • 18" 5kW/2kW Tungsten Power Beam with Wheeled Transport Case

Email joanna@filmgearusa.com or call us at 323-780-8880 to place your order while supplies last!

Cine Gear Recap!

Thanks to everyone for joining FilmGear® at last week’s Cine Gear LA Expo! For the second year in a row, our Power Beams caught the attention of all at the LA Convention Center, with the 3 newest family members taking the spotlight. Here are some of the highlights in case you missed it:

Though we were limited on hazing up the venue, the Power Beams still shone even without their signature 0° shafts of light. Both daylight and tungsten showed up this year, from the brightest 18/12kW Daylight to the classic 12/10kW Tungsten, along with the newest 1.8/1.2kW Daylight and 5/2kW Tungsten Power Beams.

Want to see these modern beam projectors in their full glory? Schedule a demo with us by calling 323.780.8880 or by emailing info@filmgearusa.com. We’ll be beaming into studios all over LA, but the post-Cine Gear orders are flying in, so call soon or you might miss us!

In addition to bringing beam projectors back, we also showed off our new Helios 1100C RGB space lights and Max series RGB maxibrutes. FilmGear®’s unique TIR lenses optimize the output from MCOB LEDs to yield a directional punch of brilliant color that you don’t get from other LEDs, making them a worthy successor to the tungsten maxibrutes of old.

As always, our favorite part of the event was the chance to reconnect with old friends and make new ones. Your feedback strengthens the core of our design philosophy to make lighting that is engineered for filmmakers, by filmmakers. This year’s theme of old school lights made with new school technology is just more proof of that, reimagining the limits of beam projectors and maxibrutes.

See you next Cine Gear!

FilmGear® Takes Space Lights to New Heights: The Helios 1100C!

The most powerful RGB LED space light from the NAB Product of the Year award-winning Helios series builds upon the industry-leading color mixing and adds the vibrant colors of FilmGear®’s RGBW LED chips. Now with 1080W of efficient, punchy MCOB LEDs, the Helios 1100C is fully equipped to paint even the tallest of studios with the colors of your dreams!

Back in 2019, the Helios 700B and 1000B bi-color LED space lights both won awards on the strength of their raw output and incredible color temperature accuracy, which was followed by the release of the RGB Helios 700C. This first foray into color space lighting integrated the RGB functionality to fill entire studios, bringing to life complex and dynamic scenes at the largest of scales.

Since then, studios have only continued to expand upwards, so FilmGear®’s engineers have spent much of the pandemic developing the Helios 1100C to take space lighting to new heights—literally. The 1100C features FilmGear®’s revolutionary new MCOB LEDs, giving them the same efficient output and throw as the Max series of RGB maxibrutes. In fact, the Helios 1100C is functionally equivalent to the Max 6C, which makes it useful as a powerful RGB skypan with its softbox.

Also like the Max 6C, each of the 6 banks can be individually controlled in all of the various modes. With the plus/minus green filter packaged into the 2700K-10000K CCT mode, this RGB space light has a more robust color temperature setting than typical bi-color lights. When it comes to RGB, the 1100C literally shines in every category that the 700C does already, with more than double the intensity for the HSI and GEL modes. The expanded Scene mode library now includes 18 presets, with options to import or program more of your own. 

Newly empowered by LumenRadio’s latest TimoTwo module, the Helios 1100C’s wireless controls take another monumental leap forward for filmmakers’ quality of life. With built-in wireless DMX and Bluetooth complementing the standard DMX/RDM, Ethernet, and USB, gaffers have total control over the light from the ground, eliminating the hassle of climbing up to each hanging fixture on a grid.

FilmGear®’s Helios 1100C RGB LED space light is here to lead the next generation of space lighting in brightness, efficiency, and versatility. Make sure to check it out as it touches down at booth 621 this Cine Gear LA!

Maximizing the Maxibrute: FilmGear®’s RGB LED Max Series

FilmGear®’s new Max 12C is leading the Max series of RGB LED maxibrutes back to Cine Gear LA! With the rapid evolution of FilmGear®’s LED engineering, the maxibrute made the leap straight from tungsten to RGB this year, with the Max 12C capping off the line this June. Combining the raw output of traditional PAR64 maxibrutes with the creative freedom of FilmGear®’s custom-designed RGBW chips, the Max series transcends both tungsten and LED at a new lighting frontier.

The new 4-in-1 chip design takes advantage of rigorously quality-controlled MCOB LEDs to optimize the output and color accuracy of each chip. The improved efficiency not only gives gaffers more light for less power drawn (up to 20A for the Max 12C) but also accelerates heat dissipation, resulting in lower fan noise overall. Clustering high-power LEDs into localized cups further allows for unique optical lenses that give the Max series their punchy naked 24° beam angle, making them a worthy successor to the tungsten maxis.

Much like their tungsten predecessors, the Max’s 4, 6, 9, or 12 LED lampheads can be individually controlled, but these fixtures have much finer tunability over brightness with 5 preset dimming curves for each individual LED bank—all maintaining average CRI and TLCI both >95 over the whole 0-100% and 2700K-10000K range.

Beyond the CCT mode with plus/minus green control, the real freedom lies in its full spectrum RGB output, configurable through either the HSI mode for cinematographers who like to fine-tune their color space or the Gel mode for gaffers who prefer to stick to the color gels they love. The Gel mode in particular has been expanded to include over 300 industry-favorite lighting filters, eliminating the hassle of having to swap color gels while keeping them from burning. For actual burning effects, the Scene mode ships with 18 preset patterns mimicking everything from flickering flames to police beacons.

Additional patterns that take advantage of the separately controllable banks can be programmed directly into the menu to suit your creative ambitions. With a fixture packed with this many features, lighting professionals will appreciate the intuitive navigation to get to the exact settings they want.

As for connectivity, the Max series comes equipped with every option imaginable, including DMX/RDM, Ethernet, USB, and built-in wireless DMX and Bluetooth through LumenRadio’s TimoTwo chip. It even comes with firmware support for the upcoming FilmGear® app, allowing for full control of all FilmGear® fixtures from the comfort of your smartphone or tablet.

The 5/2kW Tungsten Power Beam: FilmGear®'s Upgraded Twin Lamp Support!

With stronger output and greater versatility than the competition, the 5/2kW Tungsten Power Beam has been a long-awaited and highly requested upgrade to the classic 18” tungsten beam projectors. Want to experience their warm shafts of light and parallel shadows for yourself? Come and check them out as they light up the halls of Cine Gear LA from booth 621 this June!

Like the rest of the series, the 5/2kW Tungsten Power Beam is equipped to power higher wattage bulbs, giving you bolder beam definition at longer ranges. Though they raise the standard for brightness, the flexibility offered by their twin lamp support for varying LCLs makes no sacrifices, ensuring backwards compatibility with the 2000W tungsten bulbs of older beam projectors. This highly requested design enables gaffers to efficiently run Tungsten Power Beams off of 20A house circuits.

All of that concentrated output comes packed in a sturdy form built to withstand the rigors of set life. Equipped with a reinforced housing and a thicker glass mirror, FilmGear®’s iconic dark lavender workhorses are engineered for rough rentals and lifetime ownership, making the Power Beams a shining beacon of hope for the evolution of beam projectors.

Remember to visit booth 621 at Cine Gear Expo in LACC, where we’ll be showing live demos of all of the Power Beams and more!

FilmGear®’s New 1.8/1.2kW Daylight Power Beam: Efficient, Powerful, Practical

Designed in response to American filmmakers’ requests for a more modern beam projector, the 1.8/1.2kW Daylight Power Beam is the newest member of FilmGear®’s Power Beam family. This efficient and practical 18”-faced luminaire is making its US debut at Cine Gear LA this year and is available for orders starting now.

Since their premiere at last year’s Cine Gear Expo, the Power Beams have impressed gaffers at demos across NA from New York to Hawaii to Toronto, but there was one notable special request: an efficient Power Beam that can strike with house power. Prioritizing a smaller footprint over the excess output of the 4kW Junior model, the 1.8/1.2kW Daylight Power Beam adds versatility and range to the Power Beam series. This 18” lamphead features twin lamp power that drives the efficiency of modern 1800W HMI globes while maintaining the familiar option of the 1200W beam projectors of old.

The 1.8/1.2kW joins FilmGear®’s family of Power Beams that goes up to 18/12kW HMI and 24/20kW tungsten. As with the other Daylight Power Beams, its adjustable beam angle narrows down to 0°, creating powerful parallel shafts of light through windows and foliage, replicating the sun itself. With their reinforced glass mirrors, wheeled flight cases, and overall sturdier construction, these workhorses were clearly built with rentals and long-term ownership in mind, cementing FilmGear®’s dedication to durability and practicality.

The Power Beams, including the new 1.8/1.2kW Daylight Power Beam, are compatible with FilmGear®’s electronic ballasts and are available to order now.

Daylight Power Beam:

  • FilmGear® Power Beam Daylight 1.8kW / 1.2kW (18’’)

  • FilmGear® Power Beam Daylight 4kW / 2.5kW (24”)

  • FilmGear® Power Beam Daylight 9kW / 6kW (24”)

  • FilmGear® Power Beam Daylight 18kW / 12kW (36”)

Tungsten Power Beam:

  • FilmGear® Power Beam Tungsten 5kW (18”)

  • FilmGear® Power Beam Tungsten 12kW / 10kW (24”)

  • FilmGear® Power Beam Tungsten 24kW / 20kW (36”)

Brighten Your New Year with FilmGear®!

Happy New Year! If you missed our End of Year sale, don’t worry: we’re rolling over the 2021 deals into 2022, until January 14! We want to start off the new year right by putting both our bi-color and RGB models for the high power Aurora panels and the award-winning Helios space lights at 30% OFF! FilmGear®’s LED powerhouses pack enough output for any situation, making them indispensable tools in the hands of creative users.

AURORA A200B, A400B, A200C, and A400C

Gaffers know output is everything, and the more output you have, the more you can do with it. Featuring 200W and 400W of efficient bi-color LEDs, the Aurora 200B and 400B output the best-in-class illuminance of any 1x1 or 1x2 panel. The Aurora 200C and 400C build upon the warm and cool white LEDs of the bi-color line and mix in RGB LEDs to add full-spectrum color without sacrificing any white light output — this design gives the Auroras a boost of almost 40% over the next brightest competitor! Not only are you getting more brightness out of the CCT mode, but you also get improved CRI and TLCI, both averaging over 95 for the entire 2700-10000K range.

With this much output, you can use the Aurora panels as more than just an indoor key or fill light. Check out how Kiran Devadiga uses the Aurora 400C with their softboxes to throw some additional sunlight outdoors through the windows of this bus.

He could also have used the HSI or GEL modes to create a redder sunset look, or even the Scene mode to get the effect of fancy flickering flames without risking burning down the bus. Gaffers have described the Aurora as “the best of both worlds” between raw output and user-friendly functionality. All of these creative modes, in combination with the lights’ impressive intensity, make the Aurora panels possibly FilmGear®’s most versatile light yet.

HELIOS H500B, H700B, and H700C

Our award-winning Helios series of LED space lights is one of our most in-demand products and it isn’t hard to see why. The bi-color H700B model won NAB’s 2019 Product of the Year Award for its stellar output and unrivaled color accuracy throughout the entire 2700-6000K range. We later developed the H500B off of the same LED design to light smaller studios that wanted the same reliable CRI and TLCI (95+), but didn’t need the H700B’s intense throw. Since 2019, you can see hundreds of our Helios space lights lining the ceilings and rafters of stages all over North America, like SCS, where they’ve been used to light shows like Goliath and films like Mulan.

More recently, we took the beloved H700B form factor and elevated it to new colorful heights with the H700C RGBW space light. In CCT mode, the H700C features the same color accuracy as its bi-color cousin with a wider color temperature range up to 10000K. It shares the same HSI, GEL and Scene modes with the Aurora panels, evenly scaling up the magnitude of the effects across the entire studio. Being able to swap gels on hanging sets without having to climb up under the included silk skirt and target is not only a huge timesaver but also a potential lifesaver. Combine that with the built-in wireless DMX, and they’re ready to go with minimal setup.

Both the Aurora and Helios series show not only our dedication to light quality, but also that FilmGear®’s engineering prowess extends far beyond traditional lampheads. Kick off the new year with two lights that are paving the future for LED lighting in film!

Call 323.780.8880 or email sales@filmgearusa.com to order yours before the sale ends January 14!

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