SMPTE-NY February Meeting

The use of LED Lighting for Studio and Field Production

February 7th, 2019
Pennsylvania Hotel
401 Seventh Avenue (entrance on 33rd street)

5:30 to 6:15 Refreshments
6:15 to 6:30 SMPTE Business
6:30 – 8:30 Demonstration and Panel Discussion

From 3 PM to 5:30 PM, Prior To The Meeting, There Will Be An Exhibition with Several LED Lighting Manufacturers in the NEP Studio....!

Lighting Exhibitors:

Cineo Lighting
Arri Inc.
AC Lighting
Lumos
DeSisti
AAdynTech
Zylight

Speakers:

John Gates is a Lighting Designer & Consultant with over 40 years of experience in helping clients create attractive lighting for their television, film and special event projects. His work has appeared on almost every domestic broadcast and cable network and several foreign networks: ABC, Al-Jazeera, ARD, BBC, CBC, CBS, CNN, C-Span, Cleopatra Group, Comcast, Discovery Channel, Dubai Television, ESPN, Fox, Group W, HBO, Hearst, MSNBC, MTV, NBC, RTE, PBS, Playboy and Tele+2, among others.   John has lit seven U.S. Presidents, one Pope and other world leaders, won two Emmy® awards & the top Illuminating Engineering Society Award, is a Life Fellow of the Society of Motion Picture & Television Engineers and has worked in various motion picture formats (film & non-film), including 3D

David Leitner is an Oscar-nominated producer, director, and Emmy®-nominated cinematographer with over eighty credits in feature-length dramas and documentaries including eight Sundance premieres. He is an author (Kodak’s “Creating Better Video With 16mm Film”), contributing editor (Millimeter, Filmmaker), industry consultant on camera and lens design, and SMPTE Fellow.

Steven Robinson is currently the director of technology at Adorama rentals in NYC. For the past 3 years he has overseen all the aspects of the rental business for Adorama including lenses, lighting, cameras, and control systems.