ARRI | SkyPanel S120-C | LED Panel Kit

The sky just got bigger. The ARRI SkyPanel S120-C is an impressive soft light fixture, whether for horizontal or vertical use. Twice the length as the S60-C with a larger light aperture for superior lighting. Consumes less than 400 watts and provides a high efficacy of 90 lumens/watt.

ARRI continues to literally broaden their LED line with the introduction of the wide-format SkyPanel S120-C LED Softlight. Supported by an aluminum yoke, the panel surface area measures 50.8 x 11.8″ and employs interchangeable thermoplastic diffusers that range from Lite to Heavy to soften the light and wrap its output around your subject. A Standard medium diffuser is included with the light. The SkyPanel outputs the approximate equivalent of a 2000W tungsten soft light while drawing a maximum of only 430W.

Using technology originally designed for the L7-C Fresnel, the SkyPanel S120-C is fully color tuneable, allowing output of a warm 2800K to icy blue 10,000K light and also uses the full RGB+W color gamut with hue and saturation control for fine adjustments. Full minusgreen to full plusgreen is also possible, so if you’re lighting for blue or greenscreen, you can simply dial your chosen color in. This wide degree of control is responsible for a very high CRI of 95 and a rating of 90 with the newer TLCI standard. All of these functions as well as 0-100% dimming can be adjusted locally with the SkyPanel’s onboard controller or remotely via DMX or an LAN. 

Incorporating features of ARRI’s successful L-Series LED Fresnels, the SkyPanel is one of the most versatile soft lights on the market, as well as one of the brightest. Like the L-Series, SkyPanel “C” (Color) versions are fully tuneable, meaning that correlated color temperature is adjustable between 2,800K and 10,000K, with accurate color rendition over the entire range. Full plus and minus green correction can be achieved with the simple turn of a knob, and in addition to CCT control, vivid color selection and saturation adjustment is also possible. Applications for this controllability range from quickly adjusting the CCT to set the mood of a scene, to selecting the chroma green output for green screen color keying. Each LED light engine is computer calibrated in order to ensure unit-to-unit and batch-to-batch consistency, as well as accurate color temperatures.

High output is usually not associated with a fully tuneable LED fixture, but with the SkyPanel ARRI has been able to accomplish both. SkyPanel has tremendous light output across the entire CCT range. Brighter than a 2000W tungsten soft light, the SkyPanel S120 has more than enough light for most applications. In some cases, the fixture can even compete with natural sunlight; at the same time, it is able to perform impressively at lower light levels.