NAB 2017 – Waterbird Systems

NAB can sometimes be fun for finding cool little upstarts that have a unique product.  These folks have built a slider that can morph from a straight track to a curved track literally in 5 seconds.  I didn’t spend a lot of time on the details, I figured I’d let the video speak for itself and have you head to their web page for more.

Make your LED panel bi-color

Cotech Filters

The Flolight Daylight Spot LED panel was the first battery powered light I ever used that could make a real difference acting as a fill light in direct sunlight.  Up until that point, the only way (aside from a flex fill) that one could light outside was with an HMI, and that meant wall power.  So the panels were great for that purpose, but hard to use in other situations without gelling them.  Since they output no heat, we usually just taped standard CTO and diffusion to them.

They did have slots for drop in “solid gels”, but once they inevitably got lost, it was hard to replace them.

On my way out the door on my last day at NAB, I came across a company called Cotech Filters.  They look like they have a complete line of those solid filters, and not just CTB/CTO/Diffusion either.  I don’t know much about them other than that, but if you’re looking for that specific product, hopefully this helps you out.