JUNE 2017
Vol 236
Dedolight for PLS We are at Dedolight with Fernanda Cavazos. Ed: Fernanda, you are going to tell us about what’s new and we should start with the Parallel Beam Attachment. Fernanda: Because our lights are double aspherics and you can add more optics to the system, we have now developed for the different lights, Parallel Beam Attachments. This means that you get a tighter beam that goes farther away and longer – it has a longer throw and it has much more light, more punch. It’s perfect to work with the likes of the cinema reflector light and those kinds of reflectors where you can have your light alongside the set and then just redirect it with reflectors. You can put some soft reflectors on and you clean your set. You can use less light heads and you can split them into different light sources with the reflectors. Ed: So this is giving you some extra light. Now another area where some extra light’s coming from is the Turbo series? Fernanda: That’s right. We have for some years the DLED lights and what we’ve done is that, with the same sizes of light heads, we’ve put more powerful light sources, more powerful LEDs. They do need very slow active cooling by fan and that allows us to put more light in the same size. Ed: But a fan is a bad word in Dedolight circles I understand, however you put your ear to them and …? Fernanda: Yes, Dedo is very mindful of the noise that can come from using a fan – it was all passive cooling, but then he was shown some very silent fans and, after a lot of tests, and you can put your ear to the light and you don’t hear it, he became comfortable and said “yes we can do it.” Ed: To clarify, you can put your ear to the front of the light which is directed towards the talent and you can’t hear anything, but if you put your ear to the side of the light, you might hear a slight hum like a bee in the distance? Fernanda: Exactly. If you put your ear directly to the fan, you can hear a little.
Fernanda was well into the excitement of Vegas.