Rosco Introduces The Silk 110 LED Advanced Soft Light

Rosco just introduced the Silk 110 LED – a powerful new 1×1 LED with many improvements over some of the company’s existing lights.

We have just finished looking at the LitePad Vector by Rosco and apparently the company has been listening to many of our suggestions and released a new LED family of lights which seems to take care of some of the issues that we found on the older lights.

The new Silk 110 LEDs (part of a larger family with lights of different sizes and shapes) produces a high volume of light output at color temperatures ranging from 2800K – 6500K (a bit wider than the LitePad Vector in this respect).

The Silk LED family by Rosco – the Silk 110 on the right

The Silk 110 uses proprietary tungsten & daylight balanced LEDs with a broad-spectrum white light that features over 90 TLCI, CRI and R9 metrics for perfect colors with (according to Rosco) no correction in post-production.

The fixture comes with on-board dimming and color temperature controls for filmmakers to control the fixture on location, as well as DMX options for integration into broadcast studios. It ships with a 100 /240 AC power supply, enabling it for worldwide use, and V-Lock, Anton/Bauer and 4-Pin XLR input are available to ensure maximum portability.

Here is the official power (Lux) specs for the new Silk 110 LED

Distance	Lux @3200k	Lux @5600k
1m	2000	2400
2m	450	560
3m	200	240
4m	110	140

Color Metrics:

Parameter	@3200K	@5600K
TLCI	97	98
CRI Ra	98	94
R9	94	94
CQS	96	91

A few things we noticed which are different than the LitePad Vector that we tested – the control dial is fully metal, the yoke has an angle and it has an on/off switch (which was annoyingly missing from the LitePad Vector). We could only wish it had WIFI/BT or remote control.

We are still trying to find the price but we shall update you as soon as we shall know (you can find out more on the Rosco website).

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Iddo Genuth

Iddo Genuth is the founder and chief editor of LensVid.com. He has been a technology reporter working for international publications since the late 1990's and covering photography since 2009. Iddo is also a co-founder of a production company specializing in commercial food and product visual content.