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Ask Michelle Poley what a lighting designer does and she’ll tell you the obvious answer is “we light the show.” The real answer is bigger: a collaborator who makes the director’s vision and the talent look great on camera, a miracle worker on budgets, and the glue that holds the image together.  In this Scene and Heard conversation, the three-time Emmy […]

Two lights can read the same Kelvin on a meter and render completely differently on camera. Kino Flo has spent decades on that problem, first with fluorescents and now with LEDs, and this talk is the condensed version of the colorimetry lecture he gives at universities and cinematography societies. The full video is above. The short version of the […]

The iconic 4×1 form factor returns — reintroduced with 1200 watts of full-spectrum power built for any environment. At a Glance Los Angeles, CA — Kino Flo announces the official launch of the Celeb IKON 12 — the most powerful Celeb fixture ever built. Featuring a new RGB-cW-wW LED engine that drives full power to […]

How the Industry Slowed — and What Comes Now There’s something unsettling about an empty soundstage. If you’ve spent any time around production, you know the feeling: stages that should be humming with generators and chatter instead sit still. Parking lots have space. Call sheets aren’t circulating the way they used to. For an industry […]

Broadcast Studio Lighting: Practical Lighting Plots for Real-World Setups Designing lighting for a broadcast studio often means balancing a lot of competing needs: even coverage, color accuracy for consistent skin tones, and setups that don’t need to be rebuilt every day. Having a clear lighting approach can make studio workflows easier to manage – and […]

Los Angeles, CA – Kino Flo, the leader in color-accurate lighting solutions for film, television, and broadcast, proudly announces the launch of Diva Lux 4, the next generation of the highly regarded Diva family of soft lights engineered to deliver full power across all white points and nearly all color points. Powered by Kino Flo’s advanced RGB-cWwW LED […]

Gaffer Luca Rieger’s Experience with the IKON6 Luca Rieger, a gaffer working out of Germany, has built his experience across a wide range of feature films and commercials, tackling everything from local passion projects to major international productions. Along the way, he has worked with countless pieces of lighting gear, and recently, he got to […]

Move Expands Company’s Leadership in Pixel and Video Control, Creates Unified Lighting, Pixel Mapping & Media Playback Solution. SOUTHAMPTON, UK – ChamSys, a subsidiary of Chauvet & Sons LLC, has expanded its leadership in show control by acquiring the product and software portfolio of Arkaos SA, including MediaMaster, KlingNet and Grand VJ. The strategic move […]

“Having a light like the Celeb IKON that’s just so clean, hundred percent output at full saturation, these units had all the punch I needed to tell my story.” – DP Kristian Dane Lawing Local 600 Director of Photography Kristian Dane Lawing and his crew put the new Kino Flo Celeb IKON through its paces […]

Revolutionary solution for lighting talent, wardrobes, and sets LOS ANGELES – KINO FLO, the world’s leader in lighting products for movies, television, and broadcast, announces the release of the first of its revolutionary family of products, the Celeb IKON 6. This breakthrough in lighting technology features a powerful new LED engine that offers near-perfect daylight and tungsten […]