Elation Prepares to Announce “Revolutionary” Moving Light
The product announcements just keep rolling in, LDI must be right around the corner. Elation Lighting is preparing to announce a “revolutionary” spot/wash moving light this year at the LDI Show. Elation is calling it the Platinum Spot 5R. What you cannot tell from the picture is that the Platinum is the size of a [...]
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Martin LDI Special
Just in time for LDI, Martin Professional is offering two Brighter Bargin deals on not only fixtures, but also control devices. Lighting and Sound America (LSA) just sent out an email blast with the image below. Looks like if you buy 4 of any Smart MAC, MAC 250 Entour, Mac 250 Krypton, MAC 250 Wash, [...]
Read More ...Barco Announces Cyberlight Version 2.0
Barco/High End Systems just announced the release of the new Cyberlight version 2.0. The Cyberlight 2.0 is a full-featured automated luminaire with a 2000 watt short arc lamp, producing over 30,000 lumens of output from a new electronic ballast. As the newest version of High End Systems’ classic Cyberlight, the Cyberlight 2.0 offers increased output, [...]
Read More ...PLASA09: Martin Professional New Lighting Solutions
We just received a press release from Martin Professionals regarding some of the things they plan on announcing and showing off at the PLASA Show next week at Earls Court. More from the official Press Release: Martin Professional heads to PLASA 2009 at Earl’s Court in London (September 13-16) armed with a new and rapidly [...]
Read More ...PLASA09: RSC LightLock
Looking ahead towards the PLASA Show next week at Earls Court in London England, We have a preview of what the Royal Shakespeare Company has been working on, the RSC LightLock. Imagine this, you need to hang a moving light in a place where there is no pipe or truss hung. In comes the RSC [...]
Read More ...Webinar: Choosing Consoles and Moving Lights: The Latest Trends in the Marketplace
We received a message from Kevin Loretto of Creative Stage Lighting about their latest webinar coming up on May 28th, Choosing Consoles and Moving Lights: the Latest Trends in the Marketplace. The webinar will be moderated by Kevin Loretto and Michael Nevitt, both with Creative Stage Lighting. Topics Include: What does your production require? Planning [...]
Read More ...Rumor CONFIRMED: Vari-Lite VLX LED Moving Light
While visiting the Vari-Lite booth here at SETC, we noticed an interesting banner in the booth. Vari-lite has a blown up ad of their new VLX LED moving light that we hinted about a month ago. Out contact says that this ad will be running in the March issue of Live Design. What is interesting [...]
Read More ...Review: Elktralite LXE700 Spot and Wash Unit
Around the time of LDI this past year, Elektralite announced the release of their newest line of moving lights, the LXE700 Spot and Wash unit. Elektralite has started shipping units with in the US through their distributor, Group One Limited. Elektralite has been kind enough to drop off one of each unit for iSquint to [...]
Read More ...Rumor Mill Update: Vari-Lite LED Fixture
Just a few weeks ago, we reported a rumor that Vari-lite is in the process of developing an LED moving head. Many of the top lighting designers and dealers were able to view the fixture in a private room at LDI this past year in Las Vegas, at half power (because of limitations of the [...]
Read More ...Vari-Lite Approves Philips Lamp for VL3500
Vari-Lite recently approved the use of the Philips MSR Gold 1510 SA/DE 1500 watt lamp in the VL3500 fixture. There are two versions of the Philips MSR Gold 1510, the SA/DE and the SA/2/DE. Both lamps run 1500 watts each with an average lamp life 750 hours. The difference is that the SA/DE runs a [...]
Read More ...High End Discontinues Studio Beam & Cyberlight
The good folks over at controlbooth.com have a report out that High End Systems/Barco have discontinues the Studio Beam and Cyberlight series Luminaires. Both of these fixtures have been used and loved by the entertainment lighting industry for over 10 years. There have been rumors that High End/Barco are moving away from producing traditional moving [...]
Read More ...Barco/High End Systems Announces Release of ShowGun 2.5
Barco and High End Sysetms announced the release of the ShowGun 2.5. The new version of the ShowGun offers 130,00 lumens of light, wich is 30 percent more photonic output than its predecessor. The ShowGun is a very large and powerful automated light that can project images, change and mix dichroic colors, and switch from [...]
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