2008 NAB Show Report

It's Posted!!

Check out what was seen from various lighting / ENG / EFP industry manufacturers at NAB.

Here's the link http://reports.barbizonexpo.com/nab08/

NAB 2008 is a Wrap

We bid Las Vegas Goodbye Friday afternoon and I think most of us slept for the weekend.

It was a busy, busy week. We saw lots of new and familiar faces and equipment.

Coning soon will be the Barbizon NAB 2008 Show report with the complete lowdown on the latest we saw at the show.. It should be done by the end of the week.

Here is a smattering of images we didn't get posted. There are also more videos on the way once we edit them down!

To the right is a picture of us puffing up the blimp Wednesday before the show opened..

Here the Seachanger duck snuck into the Rosco booth

PARTY PIX. Thanks to David Blair here's a few more pictures from the party we held @ the Voodoo Lounge. If you have any pics you think should be posted email them to us!

See you next year!

NAB 2008 Day 3 continued

Mole Richardson has a few new things of interest. First there is the Type 6731 2K Tungsten Par. It uses the new HX2000 lamp from GE and and is amazingly bright. It will be available soon..

Now this is a big light.. It's a 12 / 18 / 24K HMI fresnel with a 24-3/4" lens. Seriously.

Not that you'd want to do this, but, with the 24K HMI lamp and the unit spotted down you'd get 117,563 foot candles @ 10 feet in a 1.5' beam diameter.

Conversely, spotted @ 200 feet there's 294fc in a 30' beam diameter... Seriously.

Here's a pic of Mole's new 12" Windmachine. It's the little brother of the bigger 24" unit and works on AC or DC. The windspeed can be controlled locally at the unit or via a control desk with DMX.







Lastly for today there is RoscoView. Rosco VIEW is a two-part system consisting of wide width polarizer filter in gel form and a matching optical glass polarizer camera filter. When utilized together, you are able to instantly control 100% of exterior brightness as seen through windows without affecting the lighting and exposure within the studio or set. By rotating the Rosco VIEW camera filter, you are able to change the degree of cross polarization occurring on the window where Rosco VIEW gel filter is applied. It is no longer necessary to constantly change out various ND filters or keep many different types of hard gels on stand by.
Here's a video of it in action.

I strolled over to the South Hall with some clients to show them Element Lab's booth.. They had the new STEALTH video wall on display and also had a neat demo of a motorcycle with STEALTH behind a silk shining on the bike.

Remember, we'll have our complete Barbizon NAB Show Report posted (hopefully) by the end of next week with a much more complete list of everything we saw. We'll let you now here and keep checking for it on the Barbizon.com main site.

NAB 2008 Day 3

Today we saw some fun things.. although with all the walking on hardened concrete we really wanted to hang out in the Porta Brace Booth and sit in this comfy chairs.

But we had to move on.

At the Bogen booth Reflec Media who has been around for a few years had a really neat demo set up. It's the same green or blue LED ring for your camera (but they make a new smaller one for consumer cameras now) with a special fabric background. It's a neat, economical way to get to experiment with chroma key applications.

Here's a video of it in action.

At Kobold we saw a 200w HMI back for the ETC Source 4

We'll post a few more interesting things later.

NAB 2008 Day 2 Wrap Up

Tuesday here @ NAB 2008 was still pretty busy. Lots of faces we have not seen in a while and a few interesting things we found on the floor.

In the Lowel booth they have the new twist to their classic 60 second set-up Rifa: The eXchange System. The new bayonet mount lets you swap lampheads with a twist of the wrist. Each model comes with a removable lamphead that uses the exact same lamps Rifa has always used. But now, the Rifa eXchange System's quick exchange accessory lampheads expand your options.
All 4 models can now go down to 125W AC or be powered with a DC battery. Also as a new option you can now use our new high CRI daylight fluorescent lamps.

Another interesting thing we like is the Rololight .

The Rololight softbox systems are comprised of a series of interlocking panels which host 15" fluorescent tubes. The panels each have its own ballast so they can be used individually or daisy chained to create a wall of light, several feet tall. Because of the flexible nature of interlocking panels, the light can rolled up for easy storage, or used in a curved form. They have egg crates for greater light control.

So here's the cool part. Rololight is so convinced you will want to keep this as a part of your kit they have a "Try and Buy" Program. Basically, purchase the system, use it for 30 days and if you don't like it return it for a refund less the cost of the shipping to you.

On the LED front (of which there are dozens) there are a couple new things from City Theatrical for the Color Kinetics iW Blast 12TR. We saw prototypes of a mount for the back that's a baby pin receiver and they have a single power supply that will be AC/DC and adjusts the color temp from tungsten to daylight and a master dimmer. They are also making frosted lenses, snap-on barndoors, and egg crates for light control.

Also coming soon.. We've had our team scouring the floor for all the latest news.. Soon there will be a link posted for the official Barbizon NAB 2008 Show report..

Barbizon Voodoo Party 2008

Tonight (Monday) was the night for the annual Barbizon Customer Appreciation party @ the Voodoo Lounge on the 51st floor of Rio Las Vegas. Thanks to the generous support from ETC, DeSisti, and Videssence we hosted close to 250 people for our reception this evening. A great time was had by all, and thanks to a couple really great customers, I will post a more comprehensive photo compilation later in the week.. be sure to check back.. But in the mean time here are a few quick shots from tonight.

NAB 2008 Show Floor Opens!

The NAB show floor opened this morning with a rush of people eager to see the latest and greatest in gear for broadcast and film (yes there is film stuff here too!)

The Barbizon Booth was steadily busy once the people made their way to the back of the central hall. The John Gate's 10:30 and 2:30 as well as Jim Sippel's 12:30 and 4:30 presentations were well attended, and will be happening through Wednesday at the same times if you'd like to stop by.

If the interesting thing seen day one..

Arri has a new line of fresnels called the T line that is tungsten and water resistant. More info forthcoming.

Kino Flo has a new fixture coming out soon based on the Element Labs LED array called the KELVIN TILE. it does daylight and tungsten and is a soft light.. It's pretty slick.

More news of new things tomorrow.. after we get the report back from all the Barbizon Crew who have been scouring the floor to find what are the next must-have items for Film, ENG, or EFP.

Web Links to John Gates Green Lights Presentation @ NAB

Below is a list of websites for information on Lamp Recycling that John Gates mentions in his seminars from the floor @ NAB.

http://www.sylvania.com/recycle
http://www.sylvania.com/AboutUs/EnergyAndEnvironment/LampRecycling/
http://www.lamprecycle.org/
http://www.nema.org/lamprecycle/recyclers.html
http://www.aircycle.com/?ilbcode=576

More Information About Hg (Mercury)
http://education.jlab.org/itselemental/ele080.html

NAB Floor opens Tomorrow @ 9AM!

When I left the show floor this afternoon the aisle carpet was not down and there were still crates waiting to go to storage.. but somehow it all gets done.

Tomorrow morning over 75,000 people will converge on the Las Vegas Convention center to see the latest and greatest in broadcast equipment.

Here's a few sneak peaks from the floor.

Our booth before the plastic was up..

Here's quick shots of the Kobold and Matthew's Booths

DeSisti has both lighting and their automated hoists on display. Here is a pic of a fluorescent system for backlighting Chroma Key walls.

More info and pics will be forthcoming.

Let us know if you want to see pics on anything!

NAB T Minus 1 Week and Counting

Happy Monday everyone..

NAB starts one week from today and Barbizon will be there ready to show everyone the latest in lighting, grip and accessories for broadcast and film. Jim Sippel and John Gates will be on hand doing helpful seminars and as always, there will be M&M's!!