Astera lights up IBC2024 for visitors seeking fine skin-tone bulbs

August 1, 2024

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Astera, a developer of innovative light solutions for film, event and TV markets, will highlight its LunaBulb at IBC2024.

Externally replicating the appearance of a conventional light bulb, the LunaBulb is internally driven by Astera’s TitanLED engine, providing fine full-colour and wireless control across a range of creative and practical applications.

Being the only LED-based bulb with inbuilt CRMX, together with Astera’s NYXBulb, the brand-new LunaBulb is available with an E26, E27 and B22 fitting and, like a conventional bulb, screws directly into an AC-wired bulb socket. A spring-loaded clip allows the light to be converted from a slimline shape to a conventional bulb, granting it both aesthetic and practical value on sets both indoors and outdoors, since the bulbs maintain the same weather-proof quality of an IP44 socket.

According to Astera, the LunaBulb has received “significant praise” from a number of cinematographers, gaffers and rental owners due to its practical design and exceptional skin tones.

It joins Astera’s wider range of innovative lighting solutions, which include the battery-powered PlutoFresnel and LeoFresnel, offering versatile and portable LED lights that can work both as a high-quality 15º to 60º Fresnel or an accurate Profile Spotlight with 16º to 36º zoom, gobo projection and individually-controllable blades.

Drawing just 80W and 250W respectively, PlutoFresnel and LeoFresnel are equivalent to traditional 300W and 1000W tungsten-based Fresnels, but with all the advantages of wireless operation, CRMX and RGBMA colour mixing.

Ready to welcome visitors to booth 12.F55, Ben Diaz, Head of Product Management, Astera, said, “We’ll be able to talk with potential customers at IBC about the broad range of ways Astera lighting — and now, the LunaBulb — has been used in film and television, on some of the biggest motion-picture films and TV shows in the last 10 years.

“We have some exciting broadcast case studies to share.”To find out more, speak with Diaz and his team at IBC2024, which is taking place at the Amsterdam RAI convention centre from September 13-16.