Aputure Teases NOVA II: The First BLAIR-CG Panel Light

The company promises more details at IBC, but just the news of the NOVA II, the first panel light to utilize the BLAIR-CG light engine, is pretty interesting.

Aputure's BLAIR light engine debuted last IBC with the STORM 1200x and the company has developed it rapidly since. It took the Blue/Lime/Amber/Indigo/Red combination which gives it its name and added Cyan and Green with the release of the STORM 1000c in November 2024.

While it ended up with a slightly clunkier name as a result, BLAIR-CG, the two new emitters enabled fixtures to achieve an even wider CCT range of 1800K - 20,000K and reach 90% of the Rec2020 colorspace as compared to 70% via the BLAIR engine alone.

As such, a panel light is an enticing prospect, and we will know more once the industry gets to Amsterdam in around seven weeks' time.

“Ever since we launched the STORM 80c and STORM 1000c with the BLAIR-CG light engine, our clients have been requesting we bring this breakthrough tunable color to a panel light, ” says Mitch Gross, Global Director of Product Marketing for Aputure.
“It was a huge technological challenge but our engineering team outdid themselves, developing a panel light so bright and with such precisely tunable color that one can do things like instantly turning a white wall into a perfect green screen, avoiding painting time and costs. The NOVA II can do color just as well as it can do white light, and it does them better and brighter than any other panel in its class.”

Will definitely be something to look out for.