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Ordered directly from England for $130. Shipped extremely fast, had in hand in one week. So far very happy. Keys have a nice feel. Keyboard size is trim enough to fit directly in front of a tangent panel.

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It's been very difficult to find a backlit USB mac specific keyboard for the theater. Everything is wireless on the mac now, and we needed USB for our extenders. Originally purchased a Moshi Luna, which I loved but it's form-factor was too large and tall for our console. This one is perfect, and has the benefit of having resolve specific shortcuts on the keys! Only bummer was the company only sells a mac UK version (No US). If ordering a PC version they have both US and UK versions.

Ordered directly from England for $130. Shipped extremely fast, had in hand in one week. So far very happy.

Keys have a nice feel. Keyboard size is trim enough to fit directly in front of a tangent panel. It's been very difficult to find a backlit USB mac specific keyboard for the theater. Everything is wireless on the mac now, and we needed USB for our extenders. Originally purchased a Moshi Luna, which I loved but it's form-factor was too large and tall for our console. This one is perfect, and has the benefit of having resolve specific shortcuts on the keys!

Only bummer was the company only sells a mac UK version (No US). If ordering a PC version they have both US and UK versions. Yes, I'm using one as well and it's pretty good.

A number of caveats:. the inscriptions are in about 2-point type, so abandon any thought of being able to read them during an edit/color session. the keyboard is adjustable in three different brightness levels (plus 'off'), and I use the lowest one. unfortunately, every time you reboot the computer the keyboard goes back to the brightest mode. on the Trash Can Mac, when the computer is sleeping, it occasionally refreshes the USB bus for no reason except annoyance, so the keyboard will light up for a minute or two, then go out. For this reason, I made black cloth covers for both my keyboard and my Tangent Elements panel when I'm not using the system. I actually use the keyboard the way I did on Baselight, with the keyboard in back of the color panel.

It's a bit of a stretch (ahem) to use, but I can function. If I had to type for long periods of time, then I'd move it to the front. Link for the product is here: I have zero connection to the company except as a satisfied customer, but bought one at cost (about $80) at their booth at Cinegear Expo over the summer. List price is $130, but you can get it for $100 from B&H Photo/NY. This was funded through kickstarter. I fed back to mark brown, suggesting the need to set the brightness, the need for ideally d65 light, or changeable lighting. They were going to send a development unit out but I got really busy so never chased it up.

I sent them the ebu room spec for reference. I have asked for a plain, non software specific version but that was not available.

So i guess i will be looking at other options. Cherry mx do them??? Worried about glare. Seems good d65 LEDs are affordable now so the keyboard could contribute to the bias lighting slightly.

I never liked the mac laptop keys on a plate keyboard and still drag my white bucket of dirt version around. Editors keys are ok. Bit hit and miss. They sold some truly awful hdmi cables for a while, but for budget audio equipment they are good. Click to expand.It's not that critical.

The illuminated keys are only bright on their edges, so it's not like the whole thing is lit up. It's so dim, it doesn't affect my perception of the picture at all. I think for a $100 keyboard, you're not going to get precise D65 white levels. If you wanted to go absolutely wild, you could just live with a black keyboard and buy an external (or ceiling-mounted) D65 light flagged to just the keyboard surface.

But that's an awful lot of trouble. I do like Litlites as a general rule in control rooms, and I throw on a blue filter (kind of like a CTB) to counteract the incandescent bulb, and I run them pretty low on the dimmers. The LED Litlite is about the same color, but as far as I know can't be dimmed yet. Yes, I'm using one as well and it's pretty good. A number of caveats:.

the inscriptions are in about 2-point type, so abandon any thought of being able to read them during an edit/color session. the keyboard is adjustable in three different brightness levels (plus 'off'), and I use the lowest one. unfortunately, every time you reboot the computer the keyboard goes back to the brightest mode. on the Trash Can Mac, when the computer is sleeping, it occasionally refreshes the USB bus for no reason except annoyance, so the keyboard will light up for a minute or two, then go out. For this reason, I made black cloth covers for both my keyboard and my Tangent Elements panel when I'm not using the system. I actually use the keyboard the way I did on Baselight, with the keyboard in back of the color panel.

It's a bit of a stretch (ahem) to use, but I can function. If I had to type for long periods of time, then I'd move it to the front. Link for the product is here: I have zero connection to the company except as a satisfied customer, but bought one at cost (about $80) at their booth at Cinegear Expo over the summer. List price is $130, but you can get it for $100 from B&H Photo/NY.

Click to expand.Sorry I missed your comment from a couple of months ago. Here's what my keyboard looks like: So there is lettering on the keys above the arrows, and little teeny-tiny symbols for 'bright' and 'darker' (for the key illumination. I'll be honest: I barely can read the 2-point type of the indicia, but since I work in a somewhat-dark room, just having the keys illuminated to the lowest level allows me to function just fine. We used something like this on a Baselight system at Lowry Digital, but I think there were issues with the USB extension and getting power to the keyboard (I think because we were 50 feet away from the system), because it was dark about 90% of the time. While the keyboards don't need a lot of power, they do need enough to light up. I have to agree with Dario.

At first, I though I would prefer the EditorsKeys with the glyphs/symbols against a mostly black background, thinking that would be more readable. Upon seeing it in person, though, the symbols and the tiny text just struck me as very busy and hard to distinguish.

While my main goal was mostly just to get a backlit Mac keyboard and Resolve shortcuts were a bonus, the whole combo was so visually busy that it interfered with using it as a regular keyboard. And at $100, I was kinda miffed that the keys caps were adhesive labels. Perhaps I was spoiled by the MBP backlit keyboards (actually going back to the PowerBook days over a decade and a half ago) that have the lit letters made into the key cap itself, but a mere adhesive label was unacceptable at this price range. Exchanged it for the LogicKeyboard Astra at $130.

While still plastic, it feel solid/heavy and the key labels are built into the material of the key caps themselves such that the entire key cap 'glows'. Much more acceptable design for the price. And while it is indeed more wordy and makes less use of symbols, overall I end up finding it less busy and easier to read. All that said, YMMV. I'm very happy with the Astra.

I'm having an issue with my Avid keyboard from EditorsKeys that perhaps someone can help me with: The quick transition key (the vertical line, backslash) doesn't call up the dissolve dialogue as it should. It seems to tab the playhead back a bit, although I'm not sure exactly what function it's executing.

I ordered a mac keyboard and received the one in the picture with the PC icons, but was assured by the EditorsKeys person I emailed that they're the same thing, and that I just needed to follow the 'hybrid keyboard' instructions to remap the command key etc. To use Mac shortcuts. That seemed to work, but could this behaviour of the quick transition be a Mac/PC thing that I also need to remap? It is set to be quick transition in my Avid keyboard settings, in case that needs saying.

The most popular keyboard for an Apple desktop computers is, as you would expect, Apple’s own keyboard. This is mainly because it already comes in packaging with some models, but it also the best designed and Mac-fitted keyboard out there. It also works flawlessly with Apple’s Magic Mouse or a Trackpad, giving you full control over your desktop with built-in and customizable gesture movements. But once in a while a new keyboard comes up, from some 3 rd party manufacturer who is trying to beat Apple’s keyboard in terms of design and functionality.

I am always interested in trying out new input devices, because I simply spend too much time in front of my computer, mostly writing and doing some work using a professional-grade graphics and photo editors. This said, sometimes I do feel a stress on my fingers and joints while working on an Apple keyboard. We have recently reviewed one of, which we were very impressed with. However, today we’ve got another interesting keyboard, which comes from Moshi, which is mostly known for some very interesting and stylish iPhone and iPad accessories. Moshi’s keyboard is called Luna keyboard, and this is USB low-profile desktop keyboard with illuminated keys. It costs roughly $100.

On a first look, the Luna keyboard is nicely and interestingly designed product, but it doesn’t follow some main points of Apple’s design philosophy, like most other Mac-made keyboards do. The Luna is thin and light, but it only comes in striking black color, with clear-cut lines and strong silhouette. Its main body is also surrounded by clear acrylic frame which is very visible in dark surrounding, since it casts white light toward all three sides. This surely looks very attractive and interesting, and gives comfortable rest space for your palms, even though this wasn’t enough space for my hands on the left and right side where I usually rest my hands between writing sentences.

I guess this depends on how you use a keyboard and how big are your palms and fingers, so some people will find it very enjoyable, but I wasn’t one of them. The Luna is very comfortable to use, in terms of mechanics beneath those keys.

This is so called scissor switch keyboard, which automatically means that this is going to be very quiet keyboard, whose keys are easy to press and which come with shorter travel distance. This is not the same mechanism as the one found in Apple’s keyboard, which is a membrane type. The Luna is USB keyboard and in order to use it with OS X all you need to do is to connect it via USB port. Any additional software or a driver isn’t required. As you would expect from any Mac-exclusive keyboard, it comes with OS X needed buttons and there are actually 109 of them. F-keys are separated from the number row, and they’ve got their OS X functions as well (display brightness, Mission Control, Expose, and Dashboard activation).

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You can use F5 and F6 to change Luna’s brightness level. This backlit illumination is quite strong and it illuminates not only symbols, but also the edge of keys.

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Interesting thing is that the Luna comes with keys like print screen, scroll lock, and function lock, which are Windows-exclusive. This keyboard is primarily made for Macs, but this can be useful in case you run Windows as well, via BootCamp or some similar software.