This means it is a slightly heavier fixture than a light that separates that power supply out from the fixture. The Orbiter has a unibody design with no separate power supply. Photo courtesy of ARRI Photo courtesy of ARRI Built Like a Tank The available attachments are several different sizes of soft boxes, domes, octa banks, as well as egg crates and grids which attach to control the spill of the light. Just like the Orbiter, and exactly as you would expect from DoPchoice and Chimera, these accessories are built to last. In order to take that hard light and make it soft, ARRI has partnered with DoPchoice and Chimera to modify the Orbiter’s output into a beautifully soft and controllable light. It can be preferable to having a soft light as you can alter a hard light to make it soft, but the opposite is not true. Having a hard light is oftentimes the right way to go as it gives you more options. This allows you to cover a larger area and the narrow 15° open face spotting the light into a tight beam. All these optics maintain the hard light of the sensor with the wider lenses. The open face optics that are available for the Orbiter are, as of now, 60°, 30°, and 15°. Although, in order to get the light to strike, you must attach either an optic or another ARRI-certified accessory otherwise you will get an error message. When unmodified, the light has an 80-degree spread of light. This means that, without any modifiers attached, it emits a single source of light that casts hard-defined shadows. ![]() ![]() I work as both a cinematographer and a gaffer and, in both those roles, I have been very impressed by the versatility of the Orbiter. There are very few lights which are as versatile as the ARRI Orbiter. ![]() The Orbiter is the next step in lighting from ARRI after the massive success of the Skypanel family of lights, which are used on almost every level of film production. ARRI is a highly respected company that has been making high-end film equipment for over 100 years.
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