1) As has been said in other terms, nothing made by ETC is called a Shakespeare, and nothing made by Altman is called a Source Four. They each have their own product lines. The 12deg Shake does look an awful lot like an S4 zoom from far off, though.
2) Number of sets of coils in the HPL series lamps, which are specifically designed for ETC Source Four series fixtures, as SteveB stated.
3) It's a scroller as noted by soundman - most units run off of a special power supply that carries power and data in one 4-pin cable. Some scrollers have more than one gel string, like the Apollo MXR, so you can do special color mixing/fading with them.
4) Yes, gobos can be rotated, or there are also devices like the Gam FilmFX and the Rosco Infinity Animation device that produce more of a linear moving or flickering. There is also a device from Apollo (smart move vertical) that allows a special template to move up and down.
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Originally Posted by Shakspeares suck
Bwhahahahahahah!!!!!!!!! MODERN!?!?!?!?  |
I bench focused, cleaned and torqued the mega clamps of about a hundred of them this week.
They are most certainly modern. Not a Source Four and lacking in a few respects, but most certainly still modern. Get a field that flat and bright with a 575 in an 8x13, and I will be very, very surprised.
(I also bench focused a number of Century-Strand 10x23s and 8x13s. Those are most certainly
not modern.)