The ARRI Orbiter is a powerful and versatile directional LED, and it also happens to be ARRI’s first directional LED luminaire. It’s designed with a six-color light engine, color sensor, changeable optics, removable control panel, and more. The Orbiter’s high-end features make it suitable for professional productions, theatre shows, live entertainment, broadcasts, and still photography. Here’s everything to know about the ARRI Orbiter.
Key Features
- Six-color light engine
- Wide color gamut
- Ultra-high color rendering
- Color sensor mode
- Smooth dimming from 100 to 0
- Eight color modes
- Quick Lighting Mount for changeable optics
- Open face optics, Projection optics, Dome optics, and softboxes
- Removable control panel
- LiOS software
- Internal power supply
- Weatherproof housing
Color accuracy and range
The ARRI Orbiter’s color reproduction is both wide-ranging and accurate. The Orbiter uses six different light engines to offer more color possibilities, or hues. Beyond a wide color gamut, the blending of green, blue, amber, cyan, lime, and red LEDs lead to more precise colors and ultra-high rendition throughout the correlated color temperature (CCT) range. Users can set the CCT anywhere from 2,000 – 20,000 K.
Another notable feature is the color sensor. When you’re shooting in a setting with multiple light sources, the ARRI Orbiter will measure the ambient light and match it. This comes in handy when you’re mixing natural light and artificial light, or light sources continuously change. Also to cater to changing light sources, the ARRI Orbiter can smoothly dim or increase light power on a scale of 0-100.
For further versatility, the Orbiter has eight different color modes including CCT, HSI, X/Y coordinates, RGBACL, gel selection, source matching, lighting effects, and color sensor mode. Creators are able to adjust to any set or lighting.
Changeable optics
The main selling point of the ARRI Orbiter has to be its changeable optics. The directional LED has a quick lighting mount for users to swap out open face optics, projection optics, dome optics, and softboxes.
The open-face optics have high enough output to compete with other powerful light sources like the sun. They also output light at different angles — 15 degrees, 30 degrees, and 60 degrees — to provide both narrow and broad light. Projection optics offer more even illumination across the field and are workable in many different settings. The dome optics mimic a Chinese lantern and will provide soft, full, omnidirectional light in large spaces. Lastly, softboxes are easily attached to the ARRI Orbiter to create soft light.
Exceptional hardware and software
The ARRI Orbiter boasts a new user interface and improved software. The Lightning Operating System (LiOS) gives users more functionality and control over their directional LED. The Orbiter also comes with a removable control panel so users can more conveniently sculpt their light.
Don’t worry about shooting in the elements, the ARRI Orbiter is housed in a weatherproof case to withstand rain, snow, and more. Lastly, the Orbiter has an internal power supply and XLR battery input for 48v batteries.
The ARRI Orbiter is now available at Adorama.
