Welcome to the future of lighting, at Indie Film Hire we have just taken stock of Mole Richardson Vari-Senior, the latest product to their LED line up.
Here is why we are so excited about the Vari-Senior ?
Build quality is superb. The Vari-Senior has a 10″ glass fresnel lamp head, (other brands cut costs, and use plastic lenses) It boasts a 5kw tungsten eqivalant output, and draws 900w or 4amps, that’s less draw than a traditional 1kw tungsten lamp head.
The Vari-Senior offers daylight and tungsten with plus & minus green. All at the touch of the botton, or a touch screen, the choice is yours. One lamp, that doubles up as a tungsten and daylight source. The kelvin range is 2700 kelvin – 6500 kelvin with 92+ CRI.
As a gaffer or cinematographer, we all have budgets to work with, we believe the Mole Richardson Vari-Senior will extend how far your budget reaches, whilst keeping your producer happy. Have you ever had a bulb blow on set? Have you had mis-matched colour temperatures on your HMI bulbs? Its a terrible sinking feeling in the pit of your stomach, hoping the spare is good, or money spent on filters to colour correct. Well say goodbye top that one, the LED’s in these lamps are good for many thousands of operating hours, which means years. For exampl a 2.5 HMI bulb is costing around £200.00, that soon adds up over the length of the light, and your shoots.
Often it’s the case when hiring tradtional tungsten or HMI lights on location that inevitably a generator is going to be needed, because you are limited to the power available. This can range from a 13amp domestic supply to, maybe even finding a 20a breaker behind the oven. In the kitchen, if you’re lucky. we at Indie Film HIre say..No more! All the Mole Richardson LED fresnels we stock can be run from 13amp houshold sockets. Imagine that 10,000w of light plugged into the wall, until now this was unknown.
Oh, wait there is more!
The Mole Richardson Vari-Senior will aslo run off block batteries. So if you are in a remote location with now power, you’re up and running.
We love the direction that mole are moving with LED lighting, the 2.8″ LCD touch screen, is bright enough for outdoor, and night time use, the menus are intuative, and the intergrated twist and push selector is great for lighting technicians wearing gloves. We are thrilled to hear Mole Richardson will soon be releasing an application, and we have high hopes as to what this application can do to bring even more versatility and simplicity to set. Finally, lumen radio is taking over the lighting game, Mole Richardson are smart to have followed suit, allowing lighting teams all over world, to immediatly gain full control of the vari-senior, over there choice of DMX Lumen Radio application control.
Check out one of our beautiful 5KW Vari-Mole Senior LEDs on set. It only draws 900W, but outputs the equivalent lumens of the traditional 5K tungsten fresnel fixture. Pretty amazing if you ask me! Its fully adjustable from 2700K to 6500K in colour temperature and too top it off it also features the ability to add plus and minus green in seconds.
