“When we invented the Diva-Lite in the mid 1990’s, we didn’t anticipate that the light would be so popular outside the video community for which it was designed,” said Frieder Hochheim, founder and president of Kino Flo. “Diva-Lites are still strongest in the digital video and HD markets, but they continue to find favor with productions shot on film.”
The Diva-Lite was created in response to growing demand from the video community using Kino Flo film location equipment. The Diva-Lites were a new direction for Kino Flo because the electronic ballasting system was built into the fixture. This made Diva-Lites heavier than Kino Flo portable 4bank systems, which had been around since 1987 and had just won the Academy Award for Technical Achievement a year before.
However, the Diva-Lites came with dimming controls not available with any other Kino Flo product at the time. They were packaged up in kits and quickly changed the way video lighting cameramen worked in the field. Later, as film production crews adopted the Diva-Lites for use on feature and commercial production sets, Kino Flo added remote control dimming, universal electronics, a dimming/switching feature, and a wide range of light control accessories such as fabric grid cloth and louver styles. The biggest change came when Kino Flo developed a new line of True Match ® lamps to work with the Diva-Lites.
One of the most unique Diva-Lite features is the Kino Flo designed True Match lamps that deliver the most accurate color reproduction for film or video capture of any fluorescent lamp in the market. True Match lamps operate coolly, run for more than 10,000 hours and are formulated to match the spectral sensitivity curves of film and digital imaging equipment.
High output daylight and tungsten versions (CRI 95) are available in sizes that range from four inches to eight feet. The compact 5500K and 2900K lamps are used in the Diva-Lites and match other True Match lamps, as well as other professional HMI and tungsten light sources, without color correction.
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