NANLUX introduces Nebula C8 - the industry's first eight-color light engine

Shantou, China, 5 September. 2025: Today NANLUX introduces the first color light engine in the Nebula series, and the first eight-color light engine in the industry - the Nebula C8.

It integrates Deep Red, Red, Amber, Lime, Green, Cyan, Blue, and Indigo emitters to cover the visible color spectrum. Using NANLUX's proprietary color-mixing algorithm, the eight colors are precisely balanced and seamlessly blended, delivering better skin tones, a wider CCT range, a broader color gamut, and more expressive lighting for filmmakers.

Building on NANLUX's existing six-color RGBLAC engine, the Nebula C8 improves performance even further by adding deep red and indigo emitters that fill the gaps in the spectrum found in traditional color engines. The result is a more complete spectrum, wider color temperatures, and richer colors. In addition, Nebula C8 supports ±200 Green/Magenta adjustment across the entire CCT range, allowing precise tint control at any color temperature.

Ultra-Wide Color Temperature

With the addition of deep red, the Nebula C8 Color Light Engine achieves the industry’s widest CCT range of 1,000K–20,000K, covering all color temperature needs in production. Its low end reaches an unprecedented 1000K - far below sunrise or candlelight, enabling exceptional ultra-warm tones. Whether recreating fading flames, candlelight, or compensating for low color temperatures after white balance calibration, the Nebula C8 expands creative possibilities on every set.

Accurate Skin Tone Reproduction

Accurate skin tone rendering relies on full coverage of the red spectrum. Most competing color light engines lean toward orange, making skin appear pale and unnatural on camera. The Nebula C8 adds a 665 nm Deep Red to its original 645 nm Red, expanding coverage across the red spectrum. This delivers richer, healthier skin tones with natural vibrancy, both to the eye and on camera.

Superior Color Rendering

With the addition of more colors, the Nebula C8 Light Engine delivers an exceptionally wide color gamut. It achieves 79% coverage of the CIE 1931 visible color gamut - 3% more than Rec. 2020 in the visible color gamut, and 92% coverage of the Rec. 2020 color space. The saturation of deep red and indigo is especially enhanced.

Compared with RGBW and RGBWW color engines, the Nebula C8 produces smoother and more accurate RGB transitions, eliminating common color distortion during blending.

Compared with six- or seven-color LED systems, the Nebula C8 light engine delivers richer deep red and indigo tones, preventing reds from appearing too orange and indigo too pale.

With this broad gamut, the Nebula C8 clearly outperforms existing color light engines.

No Ultraviolet

Safety is always a top priority for NANLUX, both on-set operational safety and user health. These concerns were taken into account during the development of the Nebula C8 Light Engine. After carefully refining its spectral distribution, the indigo LED has been engineered to eliminate ultraviolet wavelengths below 400 nm, thereby avoiding potential UV hazards to the skin and eyes of crew and talent on set, ensuring safer prolonged lighting use.

The Nebula light engine system now encompasses the B4 white light engine and the new C8 color light engine. This gives users the freedom to choose which variant best suits their application, and together they represent the core foundations of NANLUX’s latest professional lighting fixtures:

The Nebula B4 light engine aims to offer accurate and efficient white light, providing high illuminance through high-power fixtures.

The Nebula B8 light engine focuses on offering expressive colors and an ultra-wide color temperature range, delivering versatile lighting options through medium and low-power fixtures.

Whether producing high brightness in large-scale scenes or creating rich color variations in dynamic environments, the Nebula Light Engine serves as a forward-looking solution.

The NANLUX Mission

Since its launch, NANLUX has been driven by one mission: to deliver professional, efficient, and user-friendly lighting solutions that withstand on-set demands and elevate on-screen results. Inspired by filmmakers and powered by relentless R&D, the team has advanced light source technology from early RGBW/RGBWW to RGBLAC lights and beyond, while prioritizing accuracy, consistency, safety, durability, and versatility.

This pursuit of innovation and reliability leads to the creation of the Nebula Light Engine - a breakthrough designed to provide precise, energy-efficient, and enduring performance, setting a new standard in creative lighting. The new Nebula C8 color light engine brings these many innovations together to create the most full-spectrum Film and TV LED lights available.

Nebula C8 Light Engine Key Features:

• Eight-color light engine: dR (Deep Red), R (Red), A (Amber), L (Lime), G (Green),

C (Cyan), B (Blue), I (Indigo)

• Widest CCT range of 1,000K–20,000K with ±200 green/magenta adjustment

• Accurate skin tone reproduction by adding the 665 nm deep red

• 79% coverage in the CIE 1931 visible color gamut

• 3% more coverage within the visible color gamut than Rec. 2020

• 92% coverage in the Rec. 2020 color space

• Smoother and more accurate RGB transitions

• Higher saturation in deep red and indigo

• Avoid UV hazards to skin and eyes

For more information, please visit www.nanlux.com.

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