dedolight California: Overview of key accessories for the dedolight product range

Sean Boyriven from dedolight California runs through key accessories for the dedolight range; these accessories differentiate the dedolight system from other lighting systems on the market and completely redefine what the dedolights are capable of doing. The following accessories are shown and demonstrated: Wide-angle lens attachment: increases the spread of light substantially, depending which dedolight you are using, while maintaining the ability to focus throughout the wide-angle range. In most cases the increase is from a maximum of 60 degrees to 90 degrees in flood position - which means you can fill an entire wall with light without too much trouble. The wide-angle lens features rotating 8-leaf barn doors, enabling unique angles of lights and custom shapes to be created. These barn doors are far more controllable that standard barn doors; in combination with the wide-angle attachment exceptional results can be achieved. Beam spreader: this slides in front of the dedolight, the result can be seen when spotting or flooding the light: the result is a narrow or wide strip of light. This can be rotated and positioned wherever you wish and is perfect for creating a controllable strip of light within the frame. By placing several lights in a row with Beam spreader allows one to create a continuous homogenous “river of light.” When using the Beam spreader the results are quick and easy to achieve and can be immediately seen. DP1.1 imager projector: allows the projection of gobos, patterns, and images with perfect resolution. DP2.1dedicated shutter projector: allows you to control shapes by cutting light with fine detail and precision. Parallel Beam Intensifier: this lens is a computer calculated optical elementwhich attaches to the front of a dedolight and redefines what the light can do. By putting the light into flood position the result is a tightly focussed parallel source - this can then be utilised as part of the Lightstream system. By focussing the light into a Lightstream reflector, the light can then be directed wherever the cinematographer chooses; or several reflectors can be used, with a single parallel beam serving more than one reflector; the result is multiple light sources can be created from a single light head. The quality and character of the light produced is unique to Lightstream. Soft box attachment: turn your hard dedolight into a soft light. The soft box works on the classic sized heads and provides a quick and easy way of creating soft lightfrom a single light source. “If I was to tell you you could take the projector off of that light and then turn it into a shutter system and then turn it into a focussing light that does more than any native focussing light can do; and then you can turn it into a beam intensifier and then you could use to it reflect off of Lightstream reflectors to create more light out of a single source. And then I could tell that you could put on a wide angle attachment in order to flood it out to 90 degrees; and then you can use barn doors that are more optimised than anything else to just create simple slashes. If I could show you every single accessory that you could put onto a dedolight I think you would find yourself in the most flexible and creative situation possible with the best possible outcome.” Sean Boyriven Presented by Sean Boyriven, from dedolight California. Sean is well-familiar with the advantages and tremendous potential which the dedolight system brings and is always happy to talk about and demo these products in action. Sean can be contacted at dedolight California, in Burbank, CA. More info at dedolightcalifornia.com