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- Page 1 USER MANUAL Version 1.2...
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Page 2: Page Contents
1 x 250 Medium, Half White Diffuser (3/4 Stops) 1 x 184 “Cosmetic Peach” Diffusion 1 x 279 1/8th Minus Green (Magenta) Thank you for purchasing Rotolight AEOS! We hope you enjoy using it as much as we enjoyed making it! Please register to activate your warranty at... -
Page 3: Operation Flowchart
PARTY DMX DEVICES OR LIGHTING CONSOLES PRO BALL HEAD V-LOCK BATTERY PLATE CONNECT ROTOLIGHT V-LOCK PROFESSIONAL ALUMINIUM BALL HEAD WITH BATTERY OR GOLD MOUNT MODEL USING 360º SWIVEL WITH 1/4 - 20 & 3/8th MOUNTS QR-A200 ADAPTER PLATE * BATTERY NOT INCLUDED IN SINGLE UNIT... - Page 4 “The ultimate light for portrait / location photographers. Powerful yet portable, AEOS enables you to get shots no-one else can” Jason Lanier - Sony Artisan of Imagery Photo by Jason Lanier www.jasonlanier.com...
- Page 6 AEOS BASIC OPERATION To operate AEOS you will fi nd two red rotary controls, which are also switches, and a DC on/off switch, these are all located on the rear of AEOS. POWER AEOS can be powered by 1 x V-Lock battery, DC from the supplied AC mains Adapter or from a DC source in the range of 7v -15v (i.e.
- Page 7 10% (Fast Mode). Simply rotating the knob will adjust the brightness in steps of 1%. AEOS has a dimming range of 0% -100% and is completely fl icker free at any brightness level, shutter speed or frame rate.
- Page 8 ‘FLSH’, you are not IN fl ash mode and must right click to ENTER fl ash mode) Set your Camera to Manual fl ash mode AEOS is not a TTL fl ash, it is a Manual Flash with adjustable fl ash power, modelling light, colour temperature duration settings.
- Page 9 PC sync output, with a PC sync able to the 3.5mm mono jack FLASH Trigger input jack located on the rear of AEOS below the DC Switch. Place the trigger on top of your camera shoe. Alternatively for wired operation, connect a long PC syncable from your cameras PC sync port to the 3.5mm mono jack...
- Page 10 Phottix ARES (not HSS) – Canon, Nikon, Sony Pocketwizard (not HSS) : Other models NOTE : AEOS will flash once for the duration set shutter interval when syncing in HSS, ensuring that the complete frame is illuminated. If AEOS detects a flash re-trigger...
- Page 12 (Programmable fade up / fade down for practical ‘in-camera’ production fade effects) Scroll to ‘FADE’ Click the right switch to enter ‘FADE’ mode Rotate the right knob to adjust the fade duration Lit with 1 x Rotolight AEOS, Sony A6300, Sony 10-18mm, ISO 100, F4.0, 1/15th(tripod)
- Page 14 The fade can be from 1 to 12 seconds long. Please note, the FADE will be a fade to zero from the current brightness level the AEOS is set to (i.e. if brightness is currently 80%, then fade will be 80%- 0% over custom time duration).
- Page 15 Therefore, to ensure maximum SFX brightness, set AEOS to 100% brightness and 4300 Kelvin for maximum brightness in SFX mode. To adjust the colour temperature of the light to better match your desired effect, i.e. for ‘Fire’, set the ‘COL’ to 3150kelvin, for ‘TV’ set the ‘COL’ to ‘6000k’, for Lightning’...
- Page 16 (‘Strb’) STROBE STRB The Strobe effect produces a regular fl ashing light, you can control the speed Click the right switch to activate the strobe effect, Rotate the right knob to adjust the strobe speed (It will display XX hz , where= ‘XX’ = number of strobe cycles per second).
- Page 17 effect and return to SFX Menu. (NB the duration of the lightning fl ashes is 20ms which is the recommended duration for cinematography, The lightning strikes come in bursts of between 2 and 8 random length pulses) (‘Thrb’) THROB Thrb Throb is a regular smoothly pulsing light.
- Page 18 You can meter ‘AEOS’ output which will be your peak exposure during the Fire effect. Click the right switch to activate the ‘Fire’ effect. Rotate either the right knob to adjust the ‘Fire’ effect frequency (It will display XX hz which is an indication of the effect frequency –...
- Page 19 TV effect, just connect this to the ‘FLASH’ sync port on the rear of AEOS) (NB: the TV parameters are stored in non volatile memory). Click the left switch to exit the TV effect and return to SFX Menu.
- Page 20 MICHAEL KELLY, STAR OF HIT SHOW ‘HOUSE OF CARDS’ Lit by Rotolight AEOS, Photo by Mark Mann for DEADLINE...
- Page 21 BRIDGET REGAN, STAR OF TV SHOW ‘BILLIONS’ Lit by Rotolight AEOS, Photo by Mark Mann for DEADLINE...
- Page 22 (Please note the ‘True Aperture Dimming™’ algorithm calculates the F-Stop based on the AEOS Brightness setting, your camera’s ISO and shutter speed, the distance to the subject AND compensates for the skin contrast of the subject) To re-adjust the last selected parameter (usually...
- Page 23 You can also choose to work in reverse, i.e. you creatively choose an Aperture (i.e. f-3.0) and match your light to your camera exposure settings, this way all the photos from your shoot will have the same grain structure/depth of fi eld/etc. This is a novel and very useful way of working creatively and also can save a lot of time.
- Page 24 2800 kelvin up to 7200 kelvin. This custom colour value is held as an operating preset whilst you operate the AEOS, but will be reset if you power the unit down. It is very useful to have an accurate colorimeter (such as a Sekonic C-700) to create these custom colours.
- Page 25 Enter MENU then navigate to ‘DEMO’ by rotating the left knob. Select ‘DEMO’ by clicking the right knob. AEOS will now demonstrate a range of effects from its library, whilst simultaneously explaining what is being demoed on the red display.
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Page 26: Technical Specification
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION ROTOLIGHT AEOS BEAM ANGLE 50 Degree 91 - Appproved for live broadcast without TLCI correction - “errors are so small a colorist (Television Lighting Consistency Index) would not consider correcting them” OVERALL CRI (Ra) CRI => 96 (Skintone R15, CRI=98) - Page 27 ROTOLIGHT LED TLCI TEST RESULT PHOTOMETRICS FIXTURE 3 ft. / 0.9m 6 ft. / 1.82m 9 ft. / 2.74m Angle 50º 534fc 5750 120fc 1295 57fc 614 AEOS (at mid point 4400K) CRI TEST 20 40 60 80 100 100...
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Page 28: Filter Information
FILTER INFORMATION A filter holder is included with AEOS. Simply place your desired filter underneath the filter holder, then using both thumbs, rotate the filter holder into a locking position on the front cover the AEOS light (you will hear a positive ‘click’ to indicate locked). To unlock, rotate in the other direction. - Page 29 These are also used to attach accessories like the barn doors and to mount the light. AEOS has two handles and can be easily hand held by an assistant on a shoot allowing incredible versatility and access to get shots from unusual angles.
- Page 30 Battery (recommended) rotolight.com). Specifi cally optimised for use with the AEOS, it will power the light at full continuous power for up to 3 hours. At the time of writing, this is also the largest capacity battery that can be legally carried on an airline.
- Page 31 Rotolight V-Mount Battery Bundle (RL-Batt- Bundle) Rotolight AEOS Soft Bag (RL-SOFTBAG) AEOS Barn Doors (RL-AEOS-BD) 10 Piece Add On Colour Filter Pack (RL-AEOS-CFP) AEOS Yoke Kit for c-stand or studio mounting (RL-AEOS-YOKE) Rotolight Portable Light Stand (RL- MEDIUM-LS) AEOS 360 Ball Head Adapter (RL-AEOS-360)
- Page 32 CineSFX (EP17165609.3,15/481,460, 1606907.2), Flash Sync (EP17166340.4, 15/485,239, 2017-078504, 1705754.8, 1606658.1) and True Aperture Dimming (EP17165574.9, 15/481,463, 1606908.0) are patent pending technologies of Rotolight Ltd. Accucolour,™ Aeos™, CineSFX™, Designer Fade™, True Aperture Dimming™, and Rotolight™ are registered trademarks of Rotolight Ltd.
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