{"id":2716,"date":"2017-03-09T09:03:56","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T09:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/en\/?p=2716"},"modified":"2017-03-09T03:19:47","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T03:19:47","slug":"in-the-mood-for-led","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/en\/2017\/03\/09\/in-the-mood-for-led\/","title":{"rendered":"In the mood for LED"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"twoclick_social_bookmarks_post_2716 social_share_privacy clearfix 1.6.4 locale-en_US sprite-en_US\"><\/div><div class=\"twoclick-js\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/* <![CDATA[ *\/\njQuery(document).ready(function($){if($('.twoclick_social_bookmarks_post_2716')){$('.twoclick_social_bookmarks_post_2716').socialSharePrivacy({\"txt_help\":\"Wenn Sie diese Felder durch einen Klick aktivieren, werden Informationen an Facebook, Twitter, Flattr, Xing, t3n, LinkedIn, Pinterest oder Google eventuell ins Ausland \\u00fcbertragen und unter Umst\\u00e4nden auch dort gespeichert. 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LEDs also have advantages for outdoor locations because smaller, less environmentally harmful generators are sufficient. \u201cModern generators are equipped with soot particle filters\u201d, says Zimmermann. \u201cAnd they don\u2018t have to run at full power because LEDs don\u2019t require much energy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/de\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/03\/LED-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3265\" src=\"http:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/de\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/03\/LED-1-300x106.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"452\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a>LEDs are particularly favored by studios. Since 2014, when the German broadcaster <a href=\"http:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/en\/2015\/01\/31\/ndr-broadens-its-horizons\/\">NDR <\/a>replaced the twenty-year-old fluorescent lamps in its large studio, it has been using an LED-based backlighting system to provide homogenous studio lighting. LedCyc6 was developed by the Cologne-based company <a href=\"http:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/en\/2014\/02\/05\/what-producers-want\/\">Lightequip<\/a> in cooperation with the Austrian manufacturer LDDE. \u201cThanks LDDE, we\u2019re able to achieve energy savings of up to 50 %\u201d, says Jo\u0308rg Droschinski, Head of Lighting Engineering at NDR. <a href=\"http:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/en\/2016\/02\/17\/the-long-lifespan-of-the-led\/\">ZDF<\/a> also equipped its large Broadcast Studio 1 as well as its Capital City Studio in Berlin with LEDs. Background lighting is produced by LedCyc9 panels which provide 30 % more luminosity, while Arri\u2019s Sky Panels S60-C are used for horizon lightening.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe U.S. series <em>The Terror<\/em>, about the Royal Navy crew that vanished while searching for the Northwest Passage in the Arctic in 1847, was fully equipped with LEDs by Arri. Set up in a studio in Budapest, the snow and ice landscape would have required much more refrigeration if tungsten lighting had been used. \u201cWe once relied on big lighting banks in the studio; now we use LEDs\u201d, states Hubertus, Prince of Hohenzollern, Head of Lighting at Arri. LEDs operate well up to 4 KW. At around 5 KW, they hit a physical barrier because the lighting elements must be cooled in order to perform at that level. \u201cTherefore, we set up a lot of small-area units. It will still take a while longer for us to replace the powerful HMI lights that we need for daylight effects.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/de\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/03\/Sky-panel-Marco-polo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3263 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/de\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/03\/Sky-panel-Marco-polo-300x181.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"336\" height=\"203\" \/><\/a>Rental houses, such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arrirentalgroup.com\/\">Arri Rental Deutschland GmbH<\/a>\u00a0in Munich or the Hamburg-based equipment supplier <a href=\"http:\/\/www.electric-sun.de\/\">Electric Sun<\/a>, are reporting a high demand for Arri SkyPanels. For the shooting of the Netflix series Marco Polo in Malaysia, Munich-based gaffer Mike Wa\u0308chter<br \/>\nused 500 Sky Pan- els S60-C. So far, panel lighting from various manufactures has in each<br \/>\ncase required different diffusion accessories.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Addressing this issue, Munich-based <a href=\"http:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/de\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/03\/DSC02097.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3264 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/de\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/03\/DSC02097-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"322\" height=\"242\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dopchoice.com\/\">DoPChoice\u00a0<\/a>developed Snapbags, a multifunctional softbox system for gaffers that is economical as well sustainable throughout the supply chain. \u201cOur Snapbags are made of stain- less steel and durably sewn reflective fabric\u201d, emphasizes Stefan Karle, CEO and Founder of DoPChoice. \u201cWe\u2019re using robust, water resistant materials that don\u2019t wear out so quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Photos: \u00a9 Lightequip\/ Mike W\u00e4chter\/Arri\/ DoPChoice<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There are many good reasons for DoPs and gaffers to use LEDs: energy efficiency, durability, flexibility, and speed as well as the resulting compositional possibilities. \u201cModern LED lights make it possible to switch quickly between different color temperatures\u201d, explains Mike Zimmermann, Managing Director of Lichthaus Berlin. \u201cLighting cues can be quickly changed from daylight to \u2026 <a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/en\/2017\/03\/09\/in-the-mood-for-led\/\">Read more<\/a>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2718,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,38,19,9,17,1,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-co-calculation","category-energy-efficiency","category-lightening","category-production","category-series","category-technology","category-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2716"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2730,"href":"https:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2716\/revisions\/2730"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}