ROSCO DMG LUMIERE: lights for future

Rosco reputed company that was known for manufacturing Cine Gels that allowed cinematographers to color, correct & control their light and change quality of light by Diffusions.

Rosco also won Academy awards for its scientific achievement now it also getting popular for bringing up new lights for film and television industry.

Rosco’s years of expertise in color and lighting heritage joined hands with  DMG Lumière’s experience solutions in LED lighting to manufacture new amalgamation of motion picture lighting that has a cutting-edge, portable and durable LED fixture.

Recently Lotus Cine Equipments had launched these new lights at Chennai with demo conducted by Mr.Andreas Dessloch.

LIGHTS MODELS ARE….

MINI MIX

SL1 MIX

MAXI MIX 

MIX features three different functionality modes:
• The white mode offers a wide range of tunable white light from daylight to tungsten, along with precise green/magenta correction.
• The color mode enables users to adjust color hue, saturation—with the ability to desaturate colors to either daylight or tungsten—and intensity, including a fine dimming curve.
• The gel mode allows users to select a Rosco gel from a vast gel library and even modify the gel’s hue, saturation, and green/magenta shift as needed.

MINI MIX (SWITCH)

This Mini Switch is a light weight and portable panel can be used anywhere. It has AC/DC power solutions with wide range of diffusion accessories. It is ideal companion on any set,location,confined space, low ceiling studio or set.

SL1 MIX

This variant is manufactured to find an alternative LED solution to the fluorescent tubes, a light which could be robust, compact, color changing and dimmable, Dome type diffusion housing can be easily mounted to this light.

MAXI MIX

The light measures The previous MaxiSwitch measures at (48″ x 26″ x 0.8″.)  for only 12.5 kg, Maxi mix out puts light equivalent to 520w power.

It is Bi-color light built from two panels joined together by smart hinge..the two panels can be operated separately by split mode.

Advantages of these lights are it has high CRI value of 94 and above, cinematographer or gaffer can create unique lighting effects like fire, photographers flashing lights, ambulance lighting   all these can be done on board of the light or can be controlled by mobile app.

myMIX app allows users to mix, save, and share colors. Users can capture a color within a mobile phone photo, save the color and push it wirelessly to the MIX fixture. The app controls MIX fixtures wirelessly and contains all of the onboard control features, along with the ability to name and save colors within project folders, and share colors instantly with colleagues.

Cinematographers have some unique opportunity to mimic the colors of the costume or background by just clicking it and save it to the my mix app and exactly  emit light with the desired color we want to match it.

With six options for mixing and matching, a much wider gamut of color is available over four-chip RGBA and five-chip RGBWW lights. The Lime and Red chips, both phosphor coated, are exclusively available in the Mix lights, an additional benefit for highly specific tones, hue and saturation, as well as unique combinations not found in competing models. The control software will also automatically set a base color temperature of a Mix model to accurately match other models on set or in an environment.

Rosco has other LED variants under the brand ‘SILK’.

Rosco’s DMG lumiere lights has recently won technical awards for its unique design and future proof technology.

These lights are now available and exhibited at ABCL exhibition (7,8,9 December) at Chennai trade center Stall #c 54 by Lotus Cine Equipment’s.

CJ Rajkumar

Author/Cinematographer