New iOS App: ShowTool Swatch
Daniel Murfin, the UK App developer for the lighting industry has recently released a new app to the iTunes App Store, ShowTool Swatch. You may remember some of the other great apps from Daniel, ShowTool LD and ShowTool SM. ShowTool Swatch brings your gel swatch book to life. It’s the easiest and most beautiful way [...]
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Gobo Who? GoboMan
Do You know Goboman? If not, you should! I have known about Goboman for sometime now and have yet to try their gobos. After seeing their gobos in person at USITT and Goboman lowering their price of stock metal gobos from $7.95 to $6.95, they are making it even harder for me NOT to consider [...]
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A St. Patrick’s Day Mission
HAPPY ST. PATRICK’s DAY everyone! As we celebrate Ireland’s Patron Saint Patrick tonight. I have a fun little mission for those of us of age. While partaking in your favorite beverage of choice which just might happen to be green today, take along your favorite gel swatch book. While holding up your beverage toasting to [...]
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Rosco’s 12 New E-Colour Gels
Rosco Labs recently announced the arrival of 12 new colors of gel to their E-Colour line up. To help celebrate and get the new gels into users hands, Rosco Labs gave out 12 packets of the new gel colors in 6″ x 6″ sheets for people to test and see how they like them. I [...]
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Wybron Updates iSwatch iPhone App to 1.5
Right before LDI 2009, I wrote a rumor that Wybron was working on an update to their iSwatch Gel Library iPhone app. Well, the rumor is confirmed with the latest press release from Wybron. One of the most important things to note about the update is the ability to locate local dealers based on your [...]
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Rosco Introduces 12 New E-Color Gels
LDI brought some great an wonderful new technologies to life. Leave it to Rosco to continue expanding on something that everything lighting person uses almost daily, the gel. You may not know what Rosco’s E-color is, here is what Rosco says: E-Colour is Rosco’s comprehensive system of European color filters for film and video production. [...]
Read More ...Tuesday Twitter Trivia – Monday Blues
It has been quite sometime since we had a Tuesday Twitter Trivia contest. If you have forgotten how it works, it is very simple. The first person to CORRECTLY direct message (@iSquint) us through twitter wins. It is that simple! So here we go: Which gel manufacturer produces the gel named, Monday Morning Blue? For [...]
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An Industry That Listens: Rosco Strobist Collection
We received an interesting email from Rosco Labs marketing department about a new gel kit that they have put together called The Rosco Strobist Collection. The Rosco Strobist Collection is an assortment of standard gel colors and correction gels that photographers and lighting professionals use on a regular bases. What is unique about the Rosco [...]
Read More ...Lee Filters Introduces New Sodium Effect Gels
Lee Filters just announced the addition of a new range of gel correction colors to their Arc Correction and Effect filters, the Lee Urban Effect Filters. Lee has developed a range of gel correction that would turn daylight and/or tungsten lamps to a sodium light effect. Yes, the same sodium lights that are primairly used [...]
Read More ...Apollo Design Offers Rebate on Gel
It is that time of year when schools and theatre’s begin to stock up on the things they need during the course of the year. One thing that we just can not live without in theatre are gels. Of course with the multitude of gel manufacturers and then of course the shear number of gels [...]
Read More ...Gam Introduces GamColor Kits
This is more for the film and video folks that just happen to read iSquint. Similar to the 1′ x 1′ gel packs that are out there, GAM has come out with GamColor Kits but in full sheets at 20″ x 24″ of standard gel packs that film and video people use on a regular [...]
Read More ...Tuesday Twitter Trivia – Another Roscolux 6×3 Swatch Book
It’s Tuesday Twitter Trivia Time! This week brings us yet another Roscolux 3″ x 6″ swatch book. The larger Roscolux swatch book is a great addition to any lighting professionals toolbox as it offers a larger surface area then the standard swatch books to test color mixing. The rules are simple. You must follow us [...]
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