Kino Flo

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Kino Flo Incorporated is a manufacturer of lighting equipment for use in motion pictures, television and photography. The company is located in Burbank, California. Kino Flo is best known for its fluorescent tube-based systems that are optimized for the sensitivity of film and digital video. These lights provide a relatively easy and cheap way of providing soft lighting. Compared to the original workhorse of motion picture lighting, incandescent lights (and, more recently, HMI lights), Kino Flo tubes produce less heat and fit into smaller spaces, two significant advantages that have made them popular with professionals.

[edit] History

Kino Flo was reportedly conceived of in 1987, during the filming of the movie Barfly. The Director of Photography, Robby Mueller, was filming in a cramped interior, and couldn't fit traditional lights in the space allotted. His team was able to provide the key lighting from the outside through windows. For the softer fill-lighting, his Gaffer and Kino Flo founder, Frieder Hochheim, designed a high-output fluorescent light that, when the ballast was placed remotely from the fixture, was small and lightweight enough to be taped to the wall.