Kino Flo color temperatures

What Robert Morein say is correct. Because of the weak throw and cool operating
temperatures, these lights are good for special close space applications such
as lighting a car interior.

Richard
Fat, bearded cinematographer in LA
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Any soft source by nature has weak throw. Put a big diffusion panel in front
of a hard directional light and you'll have a softlight with fast drop off.

Kinos are great. A 4x4 (four bulbs that are each four feet long) uses 160
watts and puts out a considerable amount of light. The output of Kino bulbs is
essentially the same as any household or industrial fluorescent unit; the big
difference is an electronic ballast for no flicker and color-corrected bulbs.
Very useful and versatitle lights, but they can be large and unweidly in tight
spaces (that was a four foot long unit I was mentioning).

Mitch
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"MitchGross" <mitchgross.DeleteThis@aol.com> wrote in message
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> Any soft source by nature has weak throw. Put a big diffusion panel in
front
> of a hard directional light and you'll have a softlight with fast drop
off.
>
> Kinos are great. A 4x4 (four bulbs that are each four feet long) uses 160
> watts and puts out a considerable amount of light. The output of Kino
bulbs is
> essentially the same as any household or industrial fluorescent unit; the
big
> difference is an electronic ballast for no flicker and color-corrected
bulbs.
> Very useful and versatitle lights, but they can be large and unweidly in
tight
> spaces (that was a four foot long unit I was mentioning).
>
> Mitch

I have gotten the impression that some diffusion lights, such as the typical
softbox, retain a little directionality through the diffusion; hence the
impression that these lights have more "throw." Or perhaps the size and
shape of these simply make it easier to control the spread.
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