ASTERA Titan Tubes

ASTERA Titan Tubes 8 KIT Review

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To produce quality images or videos, perfect lightning is highly essential for cameras. Currently, excellent LED light tubes work best in cinematography. One of the famous and most cinematographers’ favorites is ASTERA Titan Tubes. ASTERA has launched a full line of RGB LED tubes with multiple “pixels” that allows you to program lights with numerous different colors. Simply put, you can set up and enjoy various colors simultaneously through the tube. This incredible option will enable you to make sets creative, colorful, and vibrant, providing you with perfect entertainment environments. Additionally, the tube serves multiple ranges of usage including indoor or outdoor, on the go with the ASTERA App, AC-powered or battery, with wired or wireless DMX.

The robust ASTERA wireless tube lighting set is the ideal LED tube for filmmakers, photographers, TV studios, and for creative individuals. If you are interested in investing in the wonderful ASTERA LED Tube lights, then pay attention to this guide. Here is everything you need to know about the ASTERA Titan Tubes. 

ASTERA Titan Tubes: The Detailed Review

ASTERA Titan LED tubes are specially designed for filmmakers, combined with numerous outstanding features, including customizable and programmable effects, TruColor calibration, robust design, high and more. Additionally, it emits powerful colored light and tunable white ultra-high color rendering, which users can apply to individual pixels or the whole tube. Further, the tube serves a boundless range of uses; it’s a must-have product for cine, theatrical, and event productions. 

It consists of a wide 120° beam spread that makes it ideal for producing soft direct light on the subject that users can use as an accent light or design element on sets or any location. Moreover, the titan tubes are cordless, and an integrated LG Chem Li-ion battery powers the light and serves approximately 20 hours of runtime when charged fully. The battery takes around 3 three to charge fully. The 40.7″ long tube consists of 16 LED emitters, which is why the tube light offers bright light and high performance. The set of 8 Titan tubes comes with basic mounting hardware so that you can start using these lights in no time. It’s pretty simple to mount the light on a set or anywhere; also, you can use the stand, hang it from a grid, or safely hold it in your hands. Additionally, the kit includes a fast charger that allows you to charge all eight tube lights simultaneously. 

Color And Control Options

The ASTERA Titan tubes have an excellent CRI/TLCI rating of 96/96, indicating high accuracy in the rendition of color. Further, it uses RGB, mint, and amber LEDs and hue, saturation, and intensity control to access numerous custom colors. Its 16-pixel segments across the length of the tube allow the color to chase across the length, and effects allow additional colors to chase simultaneously. Thus, the light output of the Titan tubes is undoubtedly the best; you can get the perfect light output once you understand the control options correctly.

The best thing about these LED Titan tubes is that it includes unique control options that effortlessly predict the battery life of lights. Similarly, you can get an idea of how long your lights will run and manage your shooting sessions ideally. Additionally, you can adjust the output by decreasing it if you want your tube light’s battery to run for more hours. However, for this, you need to deal with a lower output. 

The Titan ASTERA tubes are wireless and can simply be connected to smartphones like iOS and Android. It allows you to operate the tube lights from your phone and adjust effects, colors, and other options from your phone effortlessly. Besides, you can use AsteraApp to control the light via Bluetooth and IR control by using an optional remote. 

Specifications

  • Colors: Red: Green, Blue, Mint, Amber
  • Total LED power: 72W
  • Maximum power draw: 48W
  • TLCI: ≥96
  • CRI: ≥96
  • Strobe: 0-25Hz
  • Beam Angle: 120˚
  • Field Angle: 180˚
  • Pixels: 16
  • Luminous flux: 2900Lm
  • Emittance @1m: 785Lx
  • Battery: LG Chem Lithium-ion
  • Battery Lifetime: 70% after 300 cycles
  • Battery Runtime: Up to 20 hours
  • LED Lifetime: 50.000 Hours
  • Charging time (nominal): 3 Hours
  • Input Voltage: 24V 2A
  • Control: Backside Display with HSI control Infrared
  • Range: 300m | 330 Yards
  • Housing: Polycarbonate, metal endcap
  • IP Rating: IP65
  • Relative humidity: 0-100%
  • Operating Temperature: 0-40 ˚C | 32-104 ˚F
  • Dimensions: Ø42 x 1035mm | Ø1.6” x H40.7”
  • Weight: 1.35kg |3Lbs
  • Wired DMX: supported via Astera PowerBox
  • Wireless DMX: CRMX & others, excluding W-DMX G5, City Theatrical
  • Wireless Modules: 865-870MHz | 902-928MHz | 2.4GHz

Cost

ASTERA Titan tubes are doubtlessly perfect equipment for cinematographers if they want to make an appealing set. These lights can be bought separately or in a kit. The kit contains a set of 8 titan tube lights with a charging set. The single ASTERA Titan tube light you can purchase by spending $850.00. At the same time, the price of the Titan Tubes (8) kit is around $8,300.00. 

If you are on a tight budget and found these rates unaffordable, then no worries and rent ASTERA Titan tubes 8-kit from Atlanta Camera Rental at just $425 per day.

Final Verdict

The LED lights are every cinematographer’s favorite, but the ASTERA Titan tubes are professionals’ best choice for their shooting purposes. Its remarkable features, versatility, fantastic control options, wireless connectivity, and high performance make it irresistible. The only downside is its high price, making it difficult for many to afford. However, renting is the most popular option in such cases; renting from a trustable camera gear rental house and getting your hands on this fantastic ASTERA Titan tubes kit is better. If you live in Atlanta, Georgia, contact us, rent ASTERA Titan tubes at $425 per day, and make the most of these wonderful lights.