LEDs - with Jeffrey Lee, Ph.D.

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James Ellis Deakins

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🗓️ 10 December 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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SEASON 2 - EPISODE 171 - LEDs - with Jeffrey Lee, Ph.D.

In this episode of the Team Deakins Podcast, we return to the world of LEDs. After speaking with Tim S. Kang (Season 2, Episode 165), we realized we had even more questions! To answer them, we invited Jeffrey Lee, Ph.D. who works at Fiilex Lighting as its Chief Product Officer to speak with us. We learn how Jeff's background in biology and physics and interest in the physical properties of light led him to work at Fiilex, and he shares what the company is doing to address the bottlenecks inhibiting further innovation in LED fixture design. Our questions run the gamut (again) on LED lighting technology, and Jeff teaches us how colour is really emitted from the fixtures. We also discuss how filmmakers and engineers deal with the spikes in a given fixture's colour spectrum, and we brainstorm future possibilities of the lights' designs. Plus, we learn the best tool to use to light worms, and we accidentally develop a new task for Jeff's intern.

This episode is sponsored by Aputure

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome to Season 2 of the Team Deacons podcast,
0:07.0	a collection of informal conversations between Roger and James Deacons and a guest.
0:13.0	We never know where the conversation will take us, so listen in and see where it goes.
0:21.9	This episode is sponsored by Aperture and its new Storm XT-52, the industry's most
0:29.5	powerful LED point source light. Brighter than a 6K HMI and powered by Aperture's revolutionary
0:36.8	Blair light engine, the Storm XT-52 is both a tunable
0:41.9	white light and also the brightest ever adjustable color LED. Storm XT-52, unrivaled output,
0:51.5	only from aperture.
0:55.9	Today we're talking about LED lights and their technology.
1:00.2	LED lights only relatively recently have become so prevalent on film sets, and we'd like
1:05.7	to learn more about them.
1:07.5	To help us dive into the world of LED lights, we have Jeff Lee, Chief Product Officer
1:13.2	at Felix with us today. Jeff, thank you for doing this. Thank you. Yeah, welcome.
1:18.9	We always start with our question, how did you get to where you are today? As a kid,
1:23.9	were you obsessed with light? Or did you think you were going to do something else and then find this later?
1:30.7	How did you get to where you are?
1:32.7	It's a great question.
1:33.9	I could see a chance to think back at the history a little bit.
1:37.4	So I guess growing up, I've always been interested in the sciences and technology.
1:42.9	I actually spent quite a time, a lot of time in school. I went to graduate school studying physics and actually a lot of what we call optogenetics where we use light to actually interact with biology. And it was only after graduate school that I found Felix and joined the company and started working
2:02.5	specifically on LED lights.
2:04.6	But I've always been interested in the physical properties of light, how to shape it, the
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