Prolycht introduces Orion 300 FS full colour RGBACL spotlight

The Prolycht Orion 300 FS is a powerful LED spotlight that aims to revolutionise professional lighting with its full colour spectrum output. By using multiple LEDs in six colours precisely mixed together – red, green, blue, amber, cyan and lime (RGBACL) – the Hyperlight colour engine at the core of the Orion 300 FS can emit almost any colour and accurately emulate any light source.

Paint your scene with washes of bold colour, dancing flames, embers of evening light subtly focused on your subject, or flashing red and blue cop car effects – all using the Orion 300 FS. The user can quickly choose any colour temperature from 2000K right up to 20,000K, or from hundreds of preset Lee or Rosco filter colours. The Orion 300 FS can also emulate the specific colour signatures of dozens of light sources such as halide street lamps or cool fluorescents to match with background fixtures. Throughout its entire wide range of colour temperatures the light maintains accurate, pleasing skin tones.

The output can be hard or soft and shaped with a wide variety of tools. The Orion 300 FS uses the ubiquitous Bowens-style reflector mount and Prolycht offers a comprehensive range of modifiers including a 2x Fresnel lens, projection lens with gobos, dome softbox, diffuser, lantern, barn doors and reflector. The Orion 300 FS head is also compatible with a huge wide array of third-party modifiers. The extreme accuracy, combined with the ability to shape and control light in a multitude of ways, offers cinematographers and gaffers remarkable new creative opportunities in a light of this size, power and cost.

Precision lighting redefined

The Orion 300 FS uses six-channel RGBACL LEDs controlled by Prolycht’s unique Hyperlight colour engine that guarantees quality of light not achievable with LEDs until now. This technology eliminates the gaps in the spectrum found on other LED fixtures that result in unwanted or unexpected results. In fact, the Hyperlight colour engine is so powerful it is even capable of creating new light spectrums not seen before in cinema lighting which have specific technical or creative applications.

The kit

The Orion 300 FS consists of a head with yoke, plus a separate ballast/control module for flexible mounting. It is supplied with standard reflector, 5-metre connection cable, power cord, production case, safety rope and a quick release clamp to clip the ballast to a lightstand.

Power options

The light can be run from mains or battery power and is available in V-lock or AB battery plate versions. Its sturdy metal construction is designed for the rigors of the professional film set.

Power to project

The Orion 300 FS is a powerful light, measuring 261 fc at 9ft (3-metre) with the standard reflector. Attach the new Prolycht 2x Fresnel lens and that increases to an impressive 1055 fc at 9ft (3-metre) with a 15-degree beam angle, which is brighter than a 1.2k HMI. This new 2x Fresnel is also the first to be specifically designed to work with Prolycht’s colour LED spotlights, with the optics precisely aligned to the Orion 300 FS emitter array. The Orion 300 FS with the 2x Fresnel lens is the first focusing colour-tunable fixture for the film and video industry.

Prolycht also offers a 23-degree projection lens accessory for the Orion 300 FS. The collimated lens system features sharp focus and shaping controls with no colour fringing and even edge-to-centre brightness. It includes a standard 4-leaf adjustable gobo, an adjustable iris gobo and 16 precut metal gobo designs.

Control at your fingertips

The Orion 300 FS has the ability to dial in accurate daylight, tungsten, or any other colour the gaffer or DP requires via the intuitive interface on the unit, or via Prolycht’s free Chroma Link iOS app. Multiple units can also be controlled remotely using the Chroma Link app, DMX or several other popular protocols. This allows Gaffers and DPs to light entire sets using Orion 300 FS lights, outputting any desired colour.

Created with science

Prolycht is the vision of Dr Anqing Liu, who set out to create a better LED light by using his many years of experience studying colour reproduction and perceptual colour. As a leading colour expert Dr Liu was formerly a research scientist at Philips and an academic at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY. He contributed to the current CIE (International Commission on Illumination) standards which are used to evaluate lighting. Frustrated by the inferior colour fidelity he saw on most professional LED lighting fixtures, Dr. Liu developed the Hyperlight colour engine and founded Prolycht. The Orion 300 FS represents the current state of the art in tuneable full spectrum LED technology.

Designed with professionals

The Prolycht team has fused their state-of-the-art colour science and lighting technologies with practical input from a team that includes renowned Hollywood Director of Photography Rodney Charters ASC. Charters’ career spans decades and is perhaps best known for his work on the hit series 24, as well as shows like Shameless (US), Dallas, Dynasty, Nash Bridges, Roswell, Magnum P.I. (2018) and feature films including Going in Style, which starred Michael Caine and Morgan Freeman. He has served as principal cinema consultant for the new Orion 300 FS, utilising his many years of expertise to ensure it is a perfect lighting solution for professionals. Charters said: “With the Orion 300 FS I can throw colour anywhere I want with complete precision. Skin tones are simply beautiful. Prolycht have made the light I’ve been dreaming of all these years.”

Industry veteran Mitch Gross also serves as technical consultant for the light. He brings his years of experience both on set, and working for companies like Convergent Design, Panasonic USA and AbelCine. Gross said: “I’m always looking for interesting new technologies that can be useful on set. It isn’t often that something as innovative as the Orion 300 FS with its amazing colour engine comes along. Finally an LED spotlight that one doesn’t have to fight to get proper colour.”

Dr Liu said: “The Orion 300 FS is the next step in cinema lighting and the culmination of years of research. Working with true professionals like Rodney Charters ASC and Mitch Gross has helped us refine everything about the Orion and reaffirmed confidence in our core technologies through rigorous testing. I’m thrilled with the results.”

The Orion 300 FS and accessories are available immediately from authorised dealers in the US, UK, EU and China.