Rotolight has introduced what it says is the world’s first digital “SmartSoft Field” for its AEOS 2.
In line with supplies supplied to Newbie Photographerthe corporate says this world-first digital “softbox” has been developed to avoid wasting creatives money and time on set by permitting customers to manage the diffusion, focus, and unfold of the sunshine by way of the SmartSoft Field with out the necessity for gels or extra modifiers and all of those changes could be managed by way of the app on a smartphone or pill.
Mounting to the entrance of the AEOS 2 mild, the SmartSoft offers 1.5 stops of “digital diffusion” which lets customers create a tough or gentle mild with only a few clicks of a button as a substitute of counting on totally different bodily diffusion panels.
SmartSoft, initially constructed into the Rotolight Titan line of lights, has turned out to be extremely well-liked for the model. A lot in order that the product and associated know-how has been utilized in quite a few movies and television reveals (together with the most recent James Bond and Batman movies) the place the corporate claims it has helped crews save massive quantities of time from making handbook changes and adjustments to the lighting on set.
As such, the corporate has determined to adapt the know-how right into a detachable digital softbox beginning with the AEOS 2 system. The brand new SmartSoft Field can mount to the AEOS 2 in seconds and connects to Rotolight’s devoted smartphone app simply as simply, the place customers can alter the diffusion of the SmartSoft Field in addition to the sunshine itself. By means of using the app, customers can management and alter as much as 20 lights on the identical time with out having to make any handbook adjustments.
Commenting on the brand new product launch, Rotolight’s CEO, Rod Aaron Gammons says the corporate “has confirmed that it’s, but once more, on the slicing fringe of patent-protected industry-first applied sciences within the lighting {industry}, offering our clients with distinctive, state -of-the-art instruments that improve artistic potentialities on set.”
The brand new SmartSoft Field for the AEOS 2 LED lighting system is offered to pre-order from the Rotolight web site for $500 and is anticipated to begin delivery on August thirty first, 2022. The modifier is anticipated to be obtainable by way of different retailers shortly after the product launches that month.
