FilmGear®’s new Max 12C is leading the Max series of RGB LED maxibrutes best rental deals in Thailand. With the rapid evolution of FilmGear®’s LED engineering, the maxibrute made the leap straight from tungsten to RGB this year, with the Max 12C capping off the line this June. Combining the raw output of traditional PAR64 maxibrutes with the creative freedom of FilmGear®’s custom-designed RGBW chips, the Max series transcends both tungsten and LED at a new lighting frontier.
The new 4-in-1 chip design takes advantage of rigorously quality-controlled MCOB LEDs to optimize the output and color accuracy of each chip. The improved efficiency not only gives gaffers more light for less power drawn (up to 20A for the Max 12C) but also accelerates heat dissipation, resulting in lower fan noise overall. Clustering high-power LEDs into localized cups further allows for unique optical lenses that give the Max series their punchy naked 24° beam angle, making them a worthy successor to the tungsten maxis.
Much like their tungsten predecessors, the Max’s 4, 6, 9, or 12 LED lampheads can be individually controlled, but these fixtures have much finer tunability over brightness with 5 preset dimming curves for each individual LED bank—all maintaining average CRI and TLCI both >95 over the whole 0-100% and 2700K-10000K range.
Beyond the CCT mode with plus/minus green control, the real freedom lies in its full spectrum RGB output, configurable through either the HSI mode for cinematographers who like to fine-tune their color space or the Gel mode for gaffers who prefer to stick to the color gels they love. The Gel mode in particular has been expanded to include over 300 industry-favorite lighting filters, eliminating the hassle of having to swap color gels while keeping them from burning. For actual burning effects, the Scene mode ships with 18 preset patterns mimicking everything from flickering flames to police beacons.
