Section: Moving Lights
SeaChanger Improves the Tungsten SeaChanger Fixture
Fast speeds and more light output… YES PLEASE! SeaChanger just announced these updates to their tungsten color mixing fixture add-on to the ETC Source four. Increased light output and fast color mixing, how can you go wrong? Here is more from the official press release. SeaChanger has improved upon its flagship product line, the SeaChanger [...]
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Vari-Lite Shipping New VL550 Wash & VL1100 ERS Fixtures
I got super excited when I saw this email hit the inbox, Vari-Lite shipping new fixtures?!? What did I miss?! Turns out Vari-Lite re-tooled and configured the VL500 Wash and VL100 ERS fixtures with design enhancements and eco-friendly technologies and gave them updated part numbers. Here is more from the official press release: Philips Vari-Lite [...]
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Mega-Lite Announces Axis Tri-LED Moving Light
Mega Systems out of Texas recently announced the arrival of their latest product, the Axis Tri-LED moving head fixture. The fixture packs in 90, 3 watt tri-color RGB LEDs in just 26 pounds total weight. The Axis Tri-LED is switchable between 110v or 220v and draws just 2.95amps and uses 247 watts of power. The fixture uses [...]
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Elation Announces E Spot LED Moving Light
The new E Spot LED from Elation Professional has got a lot of people buzzing about just what the “E” in its name stands for. “Energy Efficient” is one likely guess, because this compact LED-powered DMX spot fixture produces an output that’s brighter than a typical 150-watt discharge lamp, yet it uses less than half [...]
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Elation Professional Announces Design Spot LED Mover
Elation Professional recently announced the arrival of another moving light to their Design Spot series of lights, the Deign Spot LED. The Design Spot LED is an LED-powered version of Elation’s popular Design Spot 250 Pro DMX moving head. At 48.5 lbs./22 kilograms, the Elation Design Spot LED weighs less than the original Design Spot [...]
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Book Review: Automated Lighting, 2nd Edition By Richard Cadena
Back at USITT 2010 in Kansas City, I got a chance to catch up with the Electron Magician himself, Mr. Richard Cadena. I am always in awe when around Mr. Cadena. Not only is he a wealth of knowledge on lighting, but the entire industry as well. During our talk, I mentioned that I would [...]
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GLP Introduces Volks|Light LED Moving Head
GLP or German Light Products has been steadily releasing new LED fixtures this year. If the pace keeps up, they will have brought six new fixtures to the market by the end of the year. This time around, GLP introduces their Volks|Light LED moving head. The Volks|Light uses 60 Luxeon Rebel high power LED’s with [...]
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City Theatrical Announces Vari-Lite VLX Accessories
City Theatrical just put out their March Newsletter with a bit of interesting news. Looks like City Theatrical is starting to make accessories for Vari-Lite’s VLX LED moving Light. In the announcement of the Vari-Lite accessories, City details why and how they come up with lighting accessories for different types of lights. A pretty interesting [...]
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Barco/High End Welcomes Intellaspot XT-1 at ProLight + Sound
Barco/High End Systems just announced their offerings at ProLight + Sound this morning. One of the new offerings form the company is the new Intellaspot XT-1. They also announced a new hybrid switcher and mixer for video/ lighting controller, the SDI-DMX Mixer Pro. Here is more from the press release. Two new product announcements round [...]
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Martin Has Even More Coming at ProLight + Sound
This week has been all about Martin’s rumored new control surface which is being officially announced next week at ProLight + Sound. It all started with a little video and then some more details about the desk. Well, it looks like that is not all that Martin is announncing next week. They have a couple [...]
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Robe Launching 11 New Products at ProLight + Sound
Robe Lighting is kicking of the year with 11 new products being launched next week at ProLight + Sound 2010 in Frankfurt Germany. Robe is expanding their ROBIN series of moving lights by adding 6 new fixture while also increasing their LED line up of fixtures by adding to the LEDForce series of products. ColorBeam [...]
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Richard Cadena Updates Automated Lighting Book to 2nd Edition
I’ve heard the the comm chatter that the Electron Magician, Mr. Richard Cadena has just updated his book, Automated Lighting: The Art and Science of Moving Light in Theatre, Live Performance, and Entertainment with a 2nd edition. Doing a quick search over at Focal Press, the publisher of Mr. Cadena’s books confirmed it. Here is [...]
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