ice light

[Shane Kelly]

These look interesting:
http://cinescopophilia.com/the-ice-light/
Might have to pick up a couple.

 

[Mike Yonts]

They also look like they'd make pretty cool light sabers!

 

[Shane Kelly]

They also look like they'd make pretty cool light sabers!

good idea!

 

[Clint Lealos]

These look cool. ANybody ever seen them in real life?

 

[Matt Ryan]

These look cool. ANybody ever seen them in real life?

How do you know were not in Limbo?

 

[Stephen Mick]

I used one on a shoot a month or so ago. Came in handy as a backlight/rim light, but IIRC they've got a built-in battery that runs down pretty quickly. It did come with an AC adapter. Quality of the light was good, but I seem to remember it being a bit off (maybe cooler) than the daylight it was said to be.

Certainly not a bad piece to have in the kit, but don't expect miracles from it.

 

[Shane Kelly]

Stephen, someone in town has one?
I'd probably use it just as an eyelight, seems perfect for over a matte box

 

[Stephen Mick]

I think the one we used was sourced from LensRentals.com.

And I think that would be a pretty perfect use for it, Shane. It's definitely a handy piece of gear, I just wish it had a better battery and was $100 or so cheaper.

 

[Bob Gundu]

Most of the complaints are from the price and low output. But definitely nice to have in your kit.

 

[Shane Kelly]

yeah $400 would be better for a purchase that I would never make any money off but may make my closeups better.

 

[Max M.]

And replaceable battery's would help a lot, $350 would be a better price. Hopefully the make a version 2 which will be bicolor, cheaper and with replaceable battery's also, then i'm buying one

 

[Juhan Malmstein]

Those seem unrealistically expensive for what they are. I was working on a Finnish feature film last summer and the Gaffer had a badass Ledlenser flashlight (the x21, which outputs up to 1600 lumens and is both dimmable and can be either spot or flood) and he always taped it into an identical product that he used everywhere, except he needed aluminum foil, some frost/diuffusion and gaffertape to create a costum one in a matter of seconds.
So what I was trying to say: find a powerful led flashlight that has an acceptable color palette for you and your camera and use a piece of cardboard pipe, some aluminum foil and some diffusion to make one yourself. It'll be cheaper, more flexible and give you better results. Plus when you don't need it, you have a bigass flashlight for your electric/camera department to find/pack/unpack something.