From Neon to LED Lighting – Old Trend, New Look?

In early 2010, LED lights started to hit the filmmaking market. At first, LED had a hard time competing with traditional fluorescent fixtures in terms of output, but more importantly, color accuracy. Kino Flo saw it coming and introduced the LED Celeb 200 series of lights in 2012. It was an expensive light and only a few of us, indie filmmakers, could afford them. Fast forward to today: Companies like Quasar Science and Digital Sputnik are constantly bringing innovations with battery powered solutions, RGB options like the Digital Sputnik Voyager, and even LED modification kits for Kino Flo fixtures. Needless to say that these new solutions are much more affordable.