I stopped by the ARRI booth at Cine Gear to speak with Mike Wagner, Senior Product Manager, about the new SkyPanel, a fully tunable LED soft light that compliments Arri's L7-C fresnels.

Today I met with Kaur Kallas, Co-Founder of Digital Sputnik, to talk about their new DS LED System, the DS 3. The DS 3 is a modular system, so you can put the modules together or use them separately with one power supply driving up to three modules.

If you stopped by our CCW booth earlier this month, you'll remember that we featured a Phantom Photo Booth as part of our display. Of course, when shooting high-speed footage, one of the most important considerations is having enough light - and that's where the new Litepanels Astra comes in.

Last month we celebrated our 25th anniversary as a company with a party at our LA location. Over 400 people attended the event, which included raffles, a silent auction, a Phantom Photo Booth, lunch and a bar, as well as a number of panel discussions on different topics, from technology to craft.

During this year's NAB show, Jon Miller of Hive Lighting stopped by our booth to tell me about the new BEE light, and he recently brought it by the LA office to give us a closer look.

The name Mole Richardson is certainly no stranger to the production environment, and you're likely to find some Mole lights on any set you visit.

At NAB 2012, Kino Flo introduced their Celeb 200 variable color LED fixture. This year, it's all about the Celeb 400 and, as you can probably guess by the name, it is twice the size of the 200.

Last year, we posted about the TruColor HS and how it utilizes Remote Phosphor Technology (RPT) to eliminate the color-accuracy limitations of other LED fixtures.

In our industry, most people hear LED lighting and think of small low-power lights that can be mounted on a camera or stashed in a corner. What does not generally come to mind is "high output," as most people believe that large tungsten or HMI units are still the only choices for real punch.