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Barbizon NY To Hold LED Open House June 14th

On Tuesday, June 14th, 2011, my alma mater, Barbizon Lighting Company will be holding an LED open house in their New York Office for the Film and Video people of the Big Apple. Barbizon is bringing in over 35 lighting manufacturers to show off their latest LED products for the broadcast, film and video world.  Barbizon is offering demo’s on camera testing and manufacturers reps to answer questions and learn more about their products.

When: Tuesday, June 14th 2011 from 9:30am to 4pm

Where: Barbizon Electric, 456 West 55th St (between 9th & 10th ave)

For more information, contact Barbizon Electric at benysales@barbizon.com.

Barbizon Lighting Debuts the World’s Brightest Broadcast/Film LED Fixture

Barbizon Lighting today revealed the intent to develop, manufacture, and distribute a new line of LED based
lighting fixtures called the Eta Carina line for the film video market segment. Barbizon’s plan is to reveal the fixture at this year’s NAB show April 11-14. Quietly over the last year Barbizon Lighting has recruited a team to build, hands-down, the most efficient, brightest flexible LED luminaire for use in film and video production.

The team includes:

  • Nano-technologists with deep understanding of solid-state lighting who are using nano structures to create white light LED arrays with a CRI of 95+.
  • Optical engineers who have developed high gain lenses utilizing Wavefront-guided LASIK technology to multiply the focusing power of the LED’s lensing system, by optimizing lenses with a spatially varying correction, guiding the computer-controlled excimer laser with measurements from a wavefront sensor. Based on their results, the team has successfully used WFG-Lasik to amplify the LED output exponentially.
  • A thermal dissipation team who’s sole goal was to keep the system cool and without divulging too much of the patent-pending system, have miniaturized a cooling technology originally developed by Cray Computers that uses a ‘plasma’ to cool components. The new system uses Moore’s Law and nano-tubes specifically knit to dissipate heat from the circuit.
  • Lastly an industrial design group with talent culled from industrial packaging to the auto and aerospace industry to develop a housing that can be used indoors or out that is easy to set-up and focus.

“We took almost a year to get it just right and ready for the industry. It’s also been so hard to not tell anyone what we’ve been up to.” says Tobin Neis, Marketing director for Barbizon. “The reigning “brightest star” in our galaxy is the Eta Carina, with a whopping solar wattage of 4.7 million suns. This is how our new fixture stacks up to the next closest competitor.”

Barbizon’s President Jonathan Resnick told us, “Look, we used our market position and customer base in television and film to determine where the white space was for this fixture. We also could see first hand where our now competitors fall short and where we could improve on their mistakes. There’s no doubt about it, this fixture is going to change this industry – everyone else will now be in our shadow.”

Happy April Fool’s Day

New iOS App: Barbizon Electrician’s Handbook

If you have been to a tradeshow or Barbizon event in the past four years, you most likely have picked up some version of the Barbizon Electrician’s Handbook. I still have ALL of mine starting with version 1!

The Electrician’s Handbook is a hand reference tool for all sorts of things that we need in our jobs. From standard electrical calculations, to socket types, lamp bases and even the perfect beer temperature!

Barbizon has teamed up with Useful Development, the developers that brought us the USITT iOS app, to bring the Electrician’s Handbook into our favorite little devices that run iOS.

Features of the app:

  • Handbook Indexed Navigation!
  • References for Electrical Terms, Wire and Cable, Lighting Fixtures, Lamps, Color, Patterns, Pipe, Knots, and More…
  • Page to Page Navigation!
  • Pinch/Zoom of Handbook pages
  • Interactive Contacts for All Barbizon Office locations, worldwide!
  • Barbizon Torch!

To get the new Barbizon app, head over to the iTunes app Store and pick up your FREE copy of the app.

Barbizon Denver Hosting LED Day May 18 & 19

What is better then a national trade show? A local event!  Barbizon Denver is having a Demo Day on May 18 & 19 at their shop in Denver Colorado.  This year, Barbizon Denver has brought in over 75, yes SEVENTY-FIVE LED fixtures for you to look at, demo, play with and compare.  The fixtures will range from the theatrical, architectural, TV and Film markets.  This is the perfect time to see a bunch of lighting equipment all at once and ask questions!

If you are a TV and Film person, Barbizon suggest you bring your camera.  Why not try the LED fixture on camera?! Excellent Idea!

The Barbizon Denver Demo Day runs from May 18, 2pm to 8pm and May 19, 10am to 4pm. They ask that you please RSVP for the Demo Days by emailing Barbizon Denver. Get directions and additional details from the Barbizon Lighting Blog.

Thanks Holly, wish I could make it!

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