Rosco Improves DMX Iris

A long LONG time ago at LDI last year, I got a sneak peak at what Rosco Labs was up to in the labs.  Rosco recently announced their new DMX Iris.  Since then, Rosco went back to the drawling board and made a couple of changes and improvements to the DMX Iris.
The New design still [...]

Friday Flickr Lighting Porn – Matt DeLong

This weeks randomly selected Friday Flickr Lighting Porn comes from Matt DeLong, a Lighting Designer and Product Manager for Rosco Labs. This is a photo from the production of Hair at the Warner Theatre in Torrington, CT.  What is interesting in this photo and production is the use of the Rosco X24 X-Effects Projector on [...]

Review: Rosco Strobist Gel Collection

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about an interesting product from Rosco Labs, the Rosco Strobist Collection Kit. While this does not have to do directly with Entertainment lighting, it is still worth a mention as a designer we must document our work for our records and our portfolio. Rosco Labs was kind enough [...]

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. E-Colour [...]

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 [...]

Rosco Labs iGobo iPhone App Avilable on iTunes

We just got word via twitter that @Rosco_Labs announced the availability of their new iPhone and iPod Touch Gobo app, iGobo via the iTunes App Store (iTunes Link).
At just under 43mb, the iGobo pack over 2300 images of select steel, glass, iPro and effects gobos available from Rosco Labs.
Similar to other iPhone gobo apps out [...]

New Gobo iPhone App On It’s Way

We heard from a reliable source the other day that Rosco Labs is in the works to release a new Gobo iPhone App of their entire Gobo catalog!
We just found confirmation of this on the Rosco website, www.rosco.com.  While details of the app are still missing in action, it is clear from the rotating image [...]

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 on twitter
send [...]

Tuesday Twitter Trivia – We Have a Winner

With over 30 responses, the first one with the correct answer was @afgld! He had the correct answers in by 9am yesterday, just an hour after the Tuesday Twitter Trivia was posted. @afgld wins the Roscolux 6″x3″ gel swatch book furnished by, Rosco.
The correct answer is:

R381 – Baldassari Blue
R302 – Pale Bastard Amber
R325 – Henna [...]

Tuesday Twitter Trivia – Roscolux Gel Swatch Book

Today we start the first Tuesday Twitter Trivia.  This week we have a very generous offering from Rosco US, a RoscoLux 6″ x3″ gel swatch book to give away (pictured left).  Once a winner has been selected, we will contact them and then announced here on iSquint and Twitter.
The 6″x3″ gel swatch book is great [...]