Thread: Conventional Fixtures Random simple questions
View Single Post
Old July 2nd, 2009, 08:13 PM
gafftapegreenia's Avatar
gafftapegreenia gafftapegreenia is offline
 Premium Member 

 
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Milwaukee WI - Detroit MI
Posts: 1,882
Thanks: 41
Thanked 43 Times in 38 Posts
Blog Entries: 1
Default Re: Random simple questions

Source 4 is ETC's brand of modern conventional lighting instruments.

Shakespeare is Altman's brand of modern conventional lighting instruments.

Ellipsoidal Reflector Spotlights or ERS's, can either be fixed beam or changeable beam,aka 'zoom'. Leko and Source 4 are both colloquial terms, for the same thing, the ERS. In general, Leko refers to anything pre-Source 4, such as the Altman 360Q. Think of it like calling all facial tissue Kleenex. This confusion of terms is something ESTA with its new eSET program is trying to help alleviate.

Both Altman and ETC make zoom instruments based on the latest technologies in ERS instrument.

Also, ETC did their ERS first, Altman copied and as such pays a licensing fee.
__________________
You must first know and understand the rules before you can break them.
"Arc corroded lamps and bases are just like VD's, they spread through contact"

Rx262310908049

Is it art yet?
Reply With Quote