A wonderful light source, pioneered by my gaffer on a recent job, “The Orb” is a convex piece of milk-plexiglass that has been fastened to a lightweight aluminum frame for easy attachment to a Kino-flo Wall-o-lite.
It’s kind of like using the ‘bottom’ end of a gargantuan frosted lightbulb, and behaves as such, spraying light out in many directions, so the wrap and softness of this source is perfect for shooting faces if you want some light fill on the shadow side of the subjects’ face.
It is similar to the quality of light gotten from a chimera pancake, but a lot softer. Nice to be able to chooses between daylight and tungsten tubes and keep it flicker-free.