Nirav Shah : Brute Force a new light

Acclaimed Cinematographer Nirav Shah is always been ambitious to infuse new technology to Indian Cinema, as a part of it he always keeps an eye  about global happenings not only with Cameras,Lenses  most important is the grips,lights and supporting accessories, he readily purchases for his own shooting and makes it available for other filmmakers as rental option for Modern film making to make things simple and effective.

Among many recent one is a Light named Brute Force this modern one is a powerful Dino light in LED avatar with end number of controls.

This is Biggie light meant for huge illumination named as Brute force 6   a true LED full colour RGB-W lamphead

• Draws just 15 amps @ 240V.
• Robustly designed and fully dimmable,
•  Extended CCT range between 2,000K and 10,000K.
• features led individual bulbs of  96-way mappable pixel control
• with RDM, DMX and optional wireless operation.
• Produces tuneable whites, as well as pastel and saturated colours (2,800K – 6,500K / 2,000K – 10,000K extended CCT)
• Pixel mapping to generate ‘effects’ – e.g. fire & lightning

Speaking to Nirav Shah he says that this light is versatile creating a huge source of illumination with lot of controls like modifying hue, saturation.

Award Winning Cinematographer says that this a heavy light weighs more than 100 kg can be mounted with use of Industrial Cranes.

Brute force 6  can be placed  up to nearly 200 feet height and still achieve required exposure.

Here Nirav Shah shares his light reading

Brute Force 6 : ISO rated at 800 
with 5600K – T 5.6 @ 100 feet  and T 2.8 @ 200 feet high
with 3200K – T 4.5 @ 100 feet and T 2.5 @ 200’

With color setting of the Brute Force light -exposure readings

RED – T2 @ 100 feet and T 1.07 @ 200 feet
GREEN – T 2.8 .5 @ 100 feet and  T 1.4 .8 @ 200 feet
BLUE – t 2.3 @ 100 feet and T 1.09 @ 200 feet.

This Brute force is available for rental : company name Light Brush
Contact Shiva 9841314092.

CJ Rajkumar (Author/Cinematographer)