SICA event : Aputure Lights!

SICA General Secretary Ilavarasu  ,President Karthik Raaja and Treasurer Sakthi Saravanan  after elected to their respective posts with the new office bearers decided to bring many reforms that would benefit members of SICA.

As pandemic restrictions are relaxed immediately a demo on new age lights by Aputure was decided.

Aputure demo was conducted at Prasad lab theatre on 6th Sunday  from 10.30 am to 2 pm, more than 200 members attended.

SICA welcomed team Aputure- Mr. Mredul Mani – Aputure India Manager, Mr. Vasanth Saravanan(Aputure Resident Pro), Mr. Ranjith Kumar J(Aputure Sales & Marketing Consultant), Mr. Ali Ibrahim (Aputure Lighting Expert).

List of Lights and Accessories presented during Demo.

Aputure B7c 8 light kit

Aputure MC 4 light kit and 12 light kit

Aputure LS 60d
Aputure LS 60x
Aputure LS 60 Softbox
Aputure Spotlight Mini Zoom
Aputure LS 300d II
Aputure LS 300x
Aputure Spotlight Mount with 19’ and 26’ lens, 18 leaf Iris and Gobo kit
Aputure Nova P300c
Aputure Nova P300c Barn door
Aputure Nova P300c Softbox
Aputure LS 600d Pro
Aputure LS 600x Pro
Aputure Spacelight
Aputure 2X Fresnel
Aputure F10 Fresnel
Aputure Barndoor
Aputure Dome 150
Aputure Dome II
Aputure Dome II Mini
Aputure Nova P600c
Aputure LS 1200d
Aputure Narrow reflector for 1200d and other accessories.

Aputure also introduced  their recent Lights to SICA members,  National Award Winner Madhu Ambat and Dop Balasubramanieum  unveiled Aputure 1200 D and Cinematographers RD.Rajasekar, Ekhambaram and Rajesh Yadav unveiled Nova P 600 c.

Here some few  fine experts from the event about the Aputure Lights  presented by Mr.Vasanth

Aputure lights are the into one eco system, it has wide range of lights. Aputure has COB LED lights  “D” standing for daylight and “X” for bi-colour.

Beginning of the event started with Aputure MC RGBWW LED Light is part of the Aputure M-series of lights and features RGB LEDs, as well as both tungsten- and daylight-balanced LEDs, creating a full hue controllable LED that emits up to 95% of the BT 2020 color gamut. This lightweight light fixture easily fits in the palm of your hand and can be mounted using the built-in 1/4″-20 threaded mounting hole or attached to metal items via its built-in magnets, Later of the event Cinematographer Shakthi Saravanan shared his recent experience shooting with this lights which was very useful at narrow paths of street during night and Tunnel sequence where he used as much as 32 MC small lights.

Aputure LS 60 d/x is its point source light which has lots of features, the LS 60 can be controlled with the Sidus link. The LS 60 has eight built-in lighting FX: Paparazzi, Fireworks, Lightning, Faulty Bulb, TV, Pulsing, Strobe, and Explosion.

Aputure 300d/x is brighter point source light from Aputure, it is supposed to be equivalent to a 2K (2000 watts) tungsten light. we can change the quality of light within minutes by easily mountable light modifiers,The 300x is the first Bowens Mount Bi-Color light to be compatible with lensed optical modifiers like the Fresnel 2X and Spotlight Mount.

Aputure Nova P300c RGBWW LED Panel The sturdily-constructed, 15.8 x 10.6 x 6″ fixture has two lighting modes. The CCT mode offers an expansive color temperature of 2000 to 10,000K with an impressive CRI/TLCI rating of 95 and plus/minus green control. The HSI mode allows you to adjust the hue, saturation, and intensity giving you access to literally millions of custom colors, while there’s also a 300 industry-standard gel library for even greater chromatic control, The P300c is also dimmable from 0 to 100% without flicker or color shift. Besides user-programmable presets, the P300c has 15 special effects including Cop Car, Lightning, Paparazzi, Candle, and Fire.

Another highlight is about SIDUS link app from Aputure

Aputure’s Sidus Link App has been around for a little while now, and have quickly become one of our favourite ways to control any light. It’s great, the mobile app is free to download on both iOS and Android and allows for full control over any of Aputure’s recent fixtures, as well as some of Aputure’s older lights.

The app allows for simple brightness and colour temperature adjustment, which is the more everyday feature of the app you’ll end up using, and we love it. It works just as it should, it’s responsive, intuitive and generally makes life much easier when you’re working alone. You also get RGB control with one of Aputure’s RGB fixtures, which allows for fine control over hue and saturation, along with the ability to record lighting effects, i.e natural fire-light, that can be stored in the app and applied to an RGB light when needed, the app provides lots of features like volumetric control by simply recording a music beat..thro app aputure lights can generate illumination sync with the sound.

SIDUS App imp features…

. Compatible with all new Aputure fixtures including LS C300d II, MC, RGB panel light etc.etc
. Up to 100 connected fixtures with a smartphone or other smart device.
. CCT mode, Gel mode, Color mode, Effects mode
. Fixtures Console, quickly adjusting the intensity of all fixtures
. Allows the multi smart iOS device to control one lighting network
. Lighting network encipherment protection
. Create a scene and add fixtures, then you can control all fixtures in the scene
. Link fixtures as a group
Quickshots function, save the scene lighting looks and quickly reset up
. Unlimited Presets
. Free Cloud Synchronization for Scenes, Presets, and Lighting Effects
. Collaboration CC Group Regulation
. Collaborating the scene to CC Group member
. Casually sharing scenes with the verification code, Color Picker allows fixture match the color with picking up any color and color light, Sourcematch allows fixtures to match the color temperature from scene and light source.

Finally a contest was announced for attendees to share images, videos of the event at Instagram tagging  sicadops and aputureindia and one lucky winner was presented a MC light.

Article compiled by

CJ Rajkumar

Author/Cinematographer