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Altman Releases New Theatrical Catalog

On this the eve of LDI 2008 in Las Veags at the Las Vegas Convention Center, Altman Lighting has announced the release of their new Theatrical Lighting Catalog.  they have totally re designed their catalog from old.  Altman has included more information about all the fixtures they manufacture as well as giving a history of Altman not only through words, but photos as well.  Altman has also included how fixtures are made and gives a brief run down on their manufacturing process.

Altman will be attending LDI in Las Vegas on October 24 – 26.  You can visit them at there booth, 1328.  Stop by their booth to view new products as well as other products in their line and pick up their new 31 page catalog or download the 7.3meg PDF here as well as visit their website at www.altmanlighting.com.

Looking Towards LDI: Lex Products 6kw, 12kw & 24kw Portable Dimmers

Lex Products has announced the release of three new portable dimmers, the 6kw, 12kw, and 24kw. These dimmers are designed for use with in any area of the entertainment industry where large load dimmers are required.  The roadworthy design is based on their portable power distro construction and include 100% solid state design and reliability. The dimmers have panel mount stage pin connectors for input and output as well as pass through.  The dimmers are controlled by microprocessor-based control electronics and offer a modular design for simple access and upgrade voltage. These dimmers offer three ways to control the dimming of the attached fixture, locally through a slider, full digital dimming with push buttons on the front to increase or decrease the intensity and finally through DMX 512A. The dimmers offer 8-bit resolution allowing for full 256-step dimming control to ensure exact level repeatability.

Lex Also offers their new portable dimmers in a revolutionary 19″ rolling Rack for applications requiring dimming and power distribution in one easy package.

Lex Products will be demoing their new Portable Dimmers as well as other products at LDI in Las Vegas on October 24 -26. Visit Lex Products in booth 868 at LDI.  To learn or about the Portable Dimmer’s download their Product Data Sheet or visit www.lexproducts.com.

Looking Towards LDI: Doug Fleenor Design Wireless LED Power Supply

Doug Fleenor Design or aka Dr. DMX, the provider of unique and industry standard DMX distribution devices is announcing a new product at LDI this week, the Wireless LED100 Power Supply.

The totally wireless LED100 power supply is targeted at the event industry. Whereas wireless supplies intended for threater may power a luminary for several minutes, the event power supplies must power the luminary for several hours. The LED100 powers a Color Kinetics ColorBlast 12 for six hours when on full (100% white) and 24 hours on a rolling color fade. Features include W-DMX wireless control, absorptive-glass-mat sealed lead acid batteries, a built in charger, a battery voltmeter, and a five year warranty.

Doug Fleenor Design also makes a Wireless LED300 Power Supply that even more LED products from such manufacturers as Color Kinetics by Philips, and other DMX devices such as the Chroma-Q gel scroller and gobo rotators from Apollo Design.

Doug Fleenor Design will be showing of the LED100 and the LED300 as well as other wonderful DMX devices that they make at LDI in Las Vegas on October 24 – 26.  To see the LED100 or any of their other products visit their booth, 656 or visit their website at www.dfd.com.

Looking Towards LDI: Le Maitre Confetti Xtreme

Le Maitre Special Effects from America’s little brother to the north, Canada have announced the release of a new product in their paper products line called the Confetti Xtreme.

While no specific information has been released, LeMaitre will be demonstrating the Confetti Xtreme and other special effects products at the LDI show in Las Veags October 24 – 26 at the Las Vegas Convention Center.

Visit Le Maitre at LDI in their booth, 2867 to see the “most powerful paper machine yet” and Le Maitre’s other smoke, fog and haze machines in action.

Le Maitre has another booth at LDI, booth 3022  that will demonstrate other Special Effects products such as the G3000, LSG with Floor Pocket, Stage Fogger, Silent Storm and the Bubble Master.

Look forward to an awe inspiring “smoke” out right o the show floor.

For more information on Le Maitre and their product line, visit their website at www.lemaitrefx.com

Looking Toward LDI: PRG Bad Boy

Production Resource Group, (PRG) one of the industry’s top rental and production houses in the US and UK markets has recently announced the arrival of a new Moving Spot Luminaire at PLASA 2008 in the UK.

The Bad Boy™ from PRG is an elegantly engineered, hybrid luminaire that combines the qualities of a traditional automated light with alarge venue fixture.

Bad Boy is the ideal choice whenever a big-beam look is required, for example, when playing in front of high-brightness LED screens. Producing a powerful 48,000 lumens, the Bad Boy couples its high-definition optics with a Philips MSR Gold™ FastFit lamp that can be set at any level between 700W and 1400W. Boasting an optical efficiency of over 40%, Bad Boy doubles standard efficiencies, marrying both brightness and green product ideals without compromise.

The Bad Boy uses a Philips MSR Golf 1200W SA/SE FastFir Lamp and is configurable between 700w and 1400w.  The reflector is a precision glass reflector with dichroic cold mirror coating.  The Bad Boy utlizies 41 DMX address to control the fixture and includes CMY mixing, a static color wheel, 2 gobo wheels of 7 gobos each with full rotation and spin.

Visit PRG’s booth, 821 at LDI in Las Vegas from October 24-26 at the Las Vegas Convention Center to see the Bad Boy in person.  Learn more about the Bad Boy by downloading the product datasheet or by visiting prg.com

Looking Towards LDI: New Lee Gel Filters

Lee Filters has worked with Lighting designers, Peter Fisker and Paule Constable to develope 8 new lighting gels that we officially announced and released at PLASA 2008 in the UK.  Working alongsde the LEE research and development team, each designer created four new cloros which have now been added to the popular LEE 700 series.

Peter Fisker Gels

Paule Constable Gels

To see Lee Filters new gels in person, stop by their booth, 734 at LDI on October 24 – 26

Looking Towards LDI: Lightwright 5

City Theatrical, the distributors of Lightwright have announced that the Developed and coder of Lightwright, John McKernon will be on hand in the City Theatrical booth, 1151 at LDI on October 24 – 26 in Las Vegas.

John McKernon will be with us to demonstrate his latest version of this award winning lighting paperwork software.  Lightwright is a standard of the industry, and is used on nearly 100% of Broadway shows and tours.  If you are a professional lighting designer, it’s very likely that you are a Lightwright user.  This new version features data exchange with Vectorworks, worksheet history, worksheet reconciliation for multiple users, network connectivity, color scroll and moving light wheel design windows and loads of other new features.  Lightwright just keeps getting better and better!

Lightwright is expected to be released for sale shortly after the conclusion of LDI.  We will keep you posted here.

Looking Towards LDI: Times Square Lights New Fixtures

Times Square Lighting is announcing two new lighting fixtures this year at LDI in Las Vegas.  The first lighting instrument to be introduced is the Sunset Strip.  It is a 120v, multi-compartment strip light that take 12v, 75w MR16 lamps at max.  The Sunset Strip is available in 1,2,3 or 4 circuit versions.  For more information on the Sunset Strip, download the product information sheet or visit www.tslight.com.

Features Include:

  • Compact Profile
  • Rugged welded steel construction
  • Ejector style lamp holder with two-pin slide in sockets
  • Front mounted neon indicator quickly identify lamp failure
  • Spring loaded flipper for access to color frame compartment
  • Supplied with fee through wiring, feed only available upon request.

The next instrument Time Square Lighting is introducing at LDI is the Broadway Cyc Light.  The Broadway Cyc is a lightweight yet rugged fixture designed with an asymmetri- cal reflector to provide a brilliant, even wash of light for cycloramas and back- drops. Rated for 1500 watts, this unit features adjustable lampholders which accept lamps of three different lengths. Ajoiner bracket allows this luminaire to be easily converted into multiple cell units. This fixture is available with a variety of yokes and other hanging hardware to accommodate various overhead and
groundrow mounting configurations. For more information on the Broadway Cyc, download the product information sheet or visit www.tslight.com

Features Include:

  • Lightweight, welded steel construction
  • Polished asymmetrical reflector provides an even wash light
  • Joiner bracket allows for conversion to multiple cell units
  • Durable black powder coat finish
  • designed for hanging or ground row applications
  • Supplies with safety screen, colorframe, mounting yoke and 36″, 3 wire leads bare ended

To see either the Sunset Strip or the Broadwaycyc in person, visit Time Square booth, 1849, at LDI in Las Vegas October 24-26.

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