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March - April 2015

PR Lighting Has A Taste For Egypt

EGYPT

“..had no problem in convincing the LD that PR Lighti ng

fi xtures would fulfi l all his requirements..”

• Hamad Arafa, Hi-Lights Egypt

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i-Lights Egypt are using more than
800 fi xtures from the PR Lighti ng
catalogue to create the ambience on
one of the Egypt's most popular TV cookery
programmes: The Taste Egypt.

The largest rental company in Egypt, Hi-
Lights became involved from the outset,
working closely with both SYNC-MEDIA, the
producti on company, and lighti ng designer
Fouad Haddad of Hand Made Image (HMI).

The programme is a worldwide franchise
and although the producti on format had
been pre-arranged, according to Hi-Lights
Egypt’s Hamad Arafa his company “had no
problem in convincing the LD that PR Lighti ng
fi xtures would fulfi l all his requirements —
parti cularly aft er undergoing camera tests to
demonstrate colour temperature, CRI etc.”

The schedule of equipment deployed on the
set — which was built in one of the principle
studios of Al Nahar TV — included 80 of
PR Lighti ng’s recently launched LED Studio
3200D zoom Fresnels (with barndoors),
which had been purpose-designed for the
TV studio environment. It incorporates a

high-power 200W LED light source, with high

luminous effi ciency and high colour rendering

index, as well as wide beam angle.

Elsewhere the set features no fewer than 500

x XPar 336-W (with 36 x 3W white and amber

LEDs), as well as 24 x PR 5000 high power

discharge spots, 120 x XR 200 Beam, which

produces a parallel, high output laser-like

‘pencil’ beam from just a 189W lamp source,

and 72 x XLED 1037, containing 37 x 10 W

RGBW (4-in-1) LEDs , with a wide beam angle

ranging from 13 to 52°.

Other small LED fi xtures were used for other

areas of the set, such as inside the kitchens.

The show is recorded in front of a live studio

audience and broadcast at prime ti me in

front of millions of viewers.

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