Rotolight has introduced what it says is the world’s first digital “SmartSoft Field” for its AEOS 2.
In line with supplies offered to Beginner 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 means of the SmartSoft Field with out the necessity for gels or further modifiers and all of those changes might be managed by means of the app on a smartphone or pill.
Mounting to the entrance of the AEOS 2 mild, the SmartSoft supplies 1.5 stops of “digital diffusion” which lets customers create a tough or comfortable 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 widespread for the model. A lot in order that the product and associated expertise has been utilized in quite a few movies and television reveals (together with the newest James Bond and Batman movies) the place the corporate claims it has helped crews save giant quantities of time from making guide changes and adjustments to the lighting on set.
As such, the corporate has determined to adapt the expertise 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 regulate the diffusion of the SmartSoft Field in addition to the sunshine itself. By means of using the app, customers can management and regulate as much as 20 lights on the identical time with out having to make any guide 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 prospects with distinctive, state -of-the-art instruments that improve inventive prospects on set.”
The brand new SmartSoft Field for the AEOS 2 LED lighting system is on the market to pre-order from the Rotolight web site for $500 and is anticipated to start out delivery on August thirty first, 2022. The modifier is anticipated to be obtainable by means of different retailers shortly after the product launches that month.