Don't Leave Home Without These iApps

摘要

I'm not a "Mac guy." In fact, as I write this, I'm typing on an HP Pavilion m7 laptop, but I do love my iPhone and iPad. Dearly. They, truly, are technological marvels that make every day work (and life) easier. I've done a number of reviews of "iApps" over the years, but this month's column will be a roundup of some of my top recommendations for TV lighting professionals. All of the following apps are for the iOS platform unless otherwise indicated. Pocket LD, a reference and calculation software for entertainment lighting professionals, is, thus far the only iApp I've found that has photometric calculations that are pretty accurate. Of course, real-world photometrics always differ from lab readings, but they can be a solid starting point. Pocket LD features a library of fixtures from ADB, Altman.Arri, Colortran, Dedolight, DeSisti, ETC, K5600, KinoFlo, Kobold, LTM, Mole-Richardson, Strand and a couple more.You pick your fixture; you pick the lamp you want in that fixture; and then you come to a calculator screen. This gives you the wattage, color temp, lamp life, beam angle, field angle and candella rating.