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Powering Up: Lights & Batteries
and 1x2ft (30x60cm) sizes, the
smaller two sizes being able to be run
off camera batteries.
And finally for the lighting section,
Zylight has its new Pro-Panel variable
colour LED soft light available in 1×2
and 2×2 configurations. It adjusts
from tungsten to daylight with an up
to 95 CRI rating, is fully dimmable and
provides a wide, 110-degree beam
angle. And while it ships with an AC
power cable, it can also be powered by
battery through its three-pin XLR port.
Batteries
All of which brings us to Anton
Bauer and batteries. The company
will be forgiven for resting on its
laurels this year given the praise
still ringing out for the Cine battery
it launched at IBC2015. Not only do

Anton Bauer's
CINE90 family
available in 90
or 150 Wh models

these follow a form factor more suited
to modern cameras (i.e. not a brick)
than many of their counterparts, but
also have the novel feature of an LCD
time remaining display. This updates
automatically if you connect other
devices via D-Tap, and is proving to
be much-loved by users who have
bought the 90 or 150 WH models. Most
recently, the company has updated its
Performance Quad Charger to satisfy
new regulations set by the IATA, and
discharge their Li-Ion batteries to the
30% SoC level required for safe air
transportation.
Switronix had approached the
same problem from a different
angle, its Hypercore Prime using a
two-part system to provide a high
capacity battery which can be legally
transported without restrictions under
IATA, ICAO, and UN regulations.
Also featuring a backlit
runtime LCD on the
front (coupled with
a wraparound LED
grid indicating charge
status), the battery
has
been
scaled
vertically for better

weight distribution and features a
"slimmy" adapter. This allows the user
to detach the back half of the battery
pack and use it as a standalone power
resource for, for example, gimbals and
other camera stabilisation devices.
Block Battery, meanwhile, has
been working on cutting charge time
in half with new 560 watt hour blocks.
The blocks come in three design
configurations: the switchable voltage
S600 designed for power-hungry
cinematic camera rigs, providing
outputs of 28.8v or 14.4v at up to
15amps in either voltage; the dual
voltage D600 designed for cinematic
or lighting production applications
where 14v and 24v outputs are
required simultaneously; and the T60,
a 30v battery designed for powerhungry HMI lighting applications. This
provides 600 watt hours
of capacity, while an
extra high-capacity T800
provides 800 watt hours.
As IDX points out,
more energy density is
the holy grail of battery
IDX Duo-C190 for
longer run times

manufacturers, and it reckons it has hit
the nail on the head with its DUO-C95
pack, which fits 93Wh capacity into a
slim form factor weighing just 1.3lbs.
For those needing even longer run
times, the DUO-C190 weighs just
2.3lbs. with a capacity of 185Wh
and supports a continuous load of
11A/120W.
PAG's PL150 Series of PAGlink
Intelligent Linking Batteries uses the
latest high-capacity Li-Ion cells to
create a 150Wh battery that is housed
in the same case as the established
96Wh models. Batteries can be linked
to multiply capacity, from 150Wh to
300Wh with just two batteries. The
current draw capability increases from
8A to 12A when V-Mount batteries are
linked (from 10A to 12A for the Gold
Mount option). The 150Wh batteries
can be linked with the 96Wh versions
for charge or discharge.

PAGlink
PL150
series

IDX Powers Fracture TV's
Love Island Shoot

en
Hughes,
Director
of
Photography and owner of
independent crewing and facilities
company Fracture TV, chose IDX
DUO-C95 batteries to power Arri Alexa
Mini auxiliary equipment during nearly
two months of production for ITV's
2016 Love Island series.
"Each DUO-C95 battery gave us more
than 75 minutes of power using the
Alexa Mini on the Freefly MoVI M15,"
Hughes comments. "The batteries
simultaneously powered the followfocus and I used a second DUO-C95
on the crossbar to power the video
sender and monitor. We were mainly
on location on beaches away from
mains power so the batteries had to
be reliable and deliver every time. All
outdoors, day and night in extreme
temperatures.
"In prepping for Love Island I knew
that I wanted to power the camera on
the gimbal and minimise cables from

cont'd...

50W. The USB port can supply up to
2.3A. The dimensions are 97 x 146 x
38mm (WHD). Battery protection is
provided against reverse charge, over
the camera to the
charge, over discharge
cross bar. The Alexa
and
over
current.
Mini's small form
The DUO-C95 is also
factor lends itself to
temperature protected.
side-mounting power
IDX is launching D-Tap
on the MoVI. The
charging at IBC. The
DUO-C95 gave me all
D-Tap advanced socket
the powering options
provides
a
more
with its two D-Taps
portable and compact
plus a USB power
charging solution when
port in a super-slim
flying or travelling.
and lightweight body.
Love Island is a British
Operators who use
dating reality show
gimbals regularly know
produced in HD by ITV
that anything which
Studios on location at
can keep weight down
DoP Ben Hughes working with Arri Alexa Mini camera mounted on Freefly Mallorca, Spain.
MoVI M15 gimbal on Love Island (Photo: Series Director Paul Newton)
and also provides
Fracture TV is a
both camera and ancillary power is a built-in USB output to power ancillary camera and lighting company run by
huge benefit. IDX really seems to have devices, allowing easy integration into DoP Ben Hughes, who has worked on
solved this."
handheld gimbal and aerial setups.
some of the UK's biggest and most
The IDX DUO-C95 is a high-capacity
Weighing less than 620 g, the battery loved television shows, and was part
Li-ion professional battery with has a capacity of 93Wh and delivers of the camera team on short film
multiple power outputs. It is equipped 14.4V nominal at 6.3Ah. Each of the Stutterer that won Best Live action
with two built-in D-Taps and a single two D-Tap ports can deliver up to short at the 2016 Oscars.

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