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iSquint LDI 2010 T-Shirt Phrase Contest

It has been a request by you guys for the longest time, an iSquint t-shirt. LDI 2010 will be the r Read more

Philips Selecon Leko Lite… The Strand SL is Reborn?

Take a look at Philips Selecon’s latest fixture, the Leko Lite.  No, no, I mean it, take a REALLY close look at it.  Remind you of a fixture that recently went away? Maybe the Strand SL is a phoenix, it died and has been reborn as the Leko Lite, they do share a bunch of [...]

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Philips Color Kinetics ColorBlast TRX

Do you like the Color Kinetics ColorBlast?  Who doesn’t?  It’s small, portable, powerful and does uplighting beautifully. The ColorBlast just got better.  Color Kinetics introduced it’s latest version of the ColorBlast, the ColorBlast TRX.
The ColorBlast TRX adds two more colors to the fixture making it an RGBAW LED wash fixture. In addition to the Amber [...]

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Sneak Peak at Philips/Selecon PL-3 LED Fresnel

When you reach the Broadway level of being a lighting designer, you can pretty much get what ever you want. I am not talking about fame and fourtune but new fixtures and technologies. Such as the case for Don Holder at the Broadway Lighting Master Classes this year. Mr. Holder put on a [...]

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Strand Selecon Introduce SPX Fixed Beam Fixtures

Strand Selecon recently announced the arrival of the SPX Fixed Beam fixtures. The goal of the SPX series of fixtures is to help round out the entire line of Strand Selecon fixture range including the Pacific and Acclaim series of lights.
The SPX Series of fixtures use 220-240v lamps, the 600w GKV, the 600w GLB and [...]

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Chroma-Q Color Force LED Batten Fixture

Here is something that I have been meaning to write up about since USITT, the Chroma-Q Color Force. Coming up to the AC Lighting booth at USITT, I was curious to see what was hidden in their 20′ high curtains.  It was Chroma-Q’s latest product, the Color Force LED Batten fixture.
After watching the Color Force [...]

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Robert Juliat Releases the Aledin LED Profile Into the Wild

Remember that “project” Robert Juliat showed off at LDI in a back room under special invite?  Looks like the “project” has been turned into a final product and is getting ready to ship! Here is more from the Press Release:
The Aledin™ is the first product of its type to achieve significant output AND superlative framing [...]

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Prism Projection Introduces Reveal Studio LED Fixture – NAB 2010

While at NAB last week, I ran into one of my good friends Miles Dudgeon from Prism Projection.  After geeking out for a bit together on the show floor over some Zeiss len’s and other photography things, Miles walked me back to his booth to show me their latest product.  Garrett Young, the President of [...]

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Lightronics Announces Par4 Fixture

I smell trouble in little china, but that is another story.  I just got a press release from Lightronics announcing the release of a new fixture called the Par4.  Here is more from the Press Release:
Lightronics Par4 is composed of a die cast aluminum housing and aluminum reflector for durability. Rated at 800 watts maximum [...]

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Lighting and Electronics Introduced the WorkLite LED

Lighting and Electronics out of Wappingers Falls New York introduced a new product the their WorkLite series of fixtures, the WorkLite LED at LDI this year.
The WorkLite LED uses 2.5 watt, high intensity white LEDs lamps at 150 lumens per LED.  With 18 LEDs, that equals 2,700 lumens of output. The WorkLite produces 6,500 kelvin [...]

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