DoPchoice now offers light directing Snapbag® soft boxes and Snapgrids® to make the most of Aputure’s new P600c LED fixture. To complement this panel light, DoPchoice has designed a dedicated new Snapbag® soft box and Rabbit Ears Mount Adapter, plus a host of other choice tools.

Renowned filter manufacturer, The Tiffen Company, adds a new line of problem-solvers to their vast array of front-of-the-lens optical filters. Tiffen’s Warm Diffusion family premiers three distinctive innovations—all aimed at giving new cinematic looks to today’s diverse array of complexions, dark to light—in camera. Each filter in the series offers the benefits of Tiffen Filter’s effective yet natural-looking diffusion while adding a warm overtone.

Warm Diffusion filters create a soft warm glow and smooth out fine details in the skin, while maintaining definition—yet each series has it own visual personality.

Designed to Elevate Video, Photo, Streaming & Teleconferencing

The Lowel EGO LED™is a diverse lighting tool with professional output that is also a stylish desk light. Its soft output makes Ego a workhorse for moving or still content including portraits, tabletop and beauty work, while it is also instantly ready to provide pleasing lighting for today’s frequent streaming and teleconferencing.

Matthews announces the answer for safely mounting Astera Hyperion, Titan and Helios as well as T12 tube lights to standard grip equipment. The Claw is a new generation clamp, designed to solve real on-set issues, by Sci-Tech Award-winning Key Grip Richard Mall with gaffer Jeremy Launais and crafted by the team at MSE headquarters in Burbank, California.

Dennis Dillinger has returned to Brightline as the global product manager for desktop lighting solutions, effective Sept. 7. Based in San Diego, he is focused on sales efforts for the ZELo and desktop studio lighting solutions.

Joey Clayton has joined Brightline, a leading manufacturer of video lighting systems, as sales operation manager, effective Aug. 23. Based out of the company’s main offices in Bridgeville, she will be responsible for organizing order logistics and post-order customer communication for the company. Erin Nath, who previously served as sales operation manager for Brightline, has been promoted to AV account manager.

Tiffen announces that new Blender® XL LED lights are now shipping. The bi-color Blender XL puts out a tunable narrow flood beam—up to four times brightness of a traditional 1x1 panel light—yet its durable metal housing is compact enough to hold in one hand. It’s a soft light with punch, ready to be dialed to an infinite choice of color temperatures for diverse location uses.

ACT Entertainment, the new entity formed by the ACT Lighting, RapcoHorizon and AC Power Distribution brands, announces the appointment of David Johnson to the new post of Senior Vice President Sales. Johnson is well known for managing the Live Design International (LDI) franchise.

As Senior Vice President Sales, Johnson will focus on several key areas. He will support the entire sales team as they integrate the multiple disciplines of the company and identify cross-sales opportunities. He will also liaise with top lighting designers to help them realize their creative visions and work with the entire ACT family to identify and execute long-term goals in order to better serve the market and grow the business.

Most recently, Johnson was Managing Director of Informa, managing multiple event/digital

brands in the entertainment technology market, including the LDI, XLive and WFX trade shows.

Brightline today announced it is now shipping the new Lupo Dayled 1000 and 2000 Dual Color PRO LED Fresnels. Designed for studio and location shoots, the new models offer variable color temperature and built-in DMX, and can be powered with mains or batteries. 

Avolites has announced the release of the latest version of its lighting software Titan, v15 which includes the highly-anticipated Timeline feature set. Timeline essentially allows timecoded shows to be programmed and edited using visually-led tools, dramatically increasing the speed with which users can set up the full range of Avolites lighting and video effects for a project.  

Due to the popularity of the Gobo Plate line of versatile mounting plates, Matthews introduces the new Gobo Plate™ XL, a beefy problem-solver offering endless robust rigging options.  

Like its smartly-designed sister products, this mounting essential is made to support an array of gear, from camera rigs, set pieces, lighting and grip modifiers to building materials like lumber and pipe. Built to receive 4.5” Grip heads, the XL is the big brother of the family—designed to couple heavier duty gear found on the rigging side of production that requires versatile support options and above all, safety. It easily bolts to standard cheese plates, hood mounts and hostess trays, etc. or may be nailed or screwed to lumber, set walls and overhead beams.

Dedolight will present their 3rd International Streaming Session on Monday 26 April, 2021. This latest LiveStream will focus on reflected light and how this works with the dedolight Lighstream system.

Litepanels has announced the launch of the latest addition to its Gemini RGBWW LED panel range. Litepanels’ Gemini 1x1 Hard RGBWW LED Panel delivers an incredibly bright output of over 3000 lux @10ft/3m to produce the brightest and most accurate 1x1 panel ever.

To accommodate today’s preponderance of video streaming, DoPchoice now offers the patented Snapbag®softbox and Snapgrid®20/30/40/50-degree grids to pleasingly soften and direct the output of the industry’s respected Cameo® F-Series Fresnels.

The Vitec Group plc has announced the acquisition of Quasar Science, a leading LED lighting technology provider. Quasar Science is an innovator in linear and tubular LED lighting solutions for cinematic applications. The business will become part of the Group’s Production Solutions Division alongside Litepanels the award-winning supplier of LED lighting panels for television lighting and cinematography acquired by the Group in 2008.