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Originally Posted by punktech
i'm going to put my two cents in and say that for theatre, one of the better movers is the ETC S4 Revolution. i won't say the best, as it is a bit old (the new ones are quite nice though), but it's quiet, relatively quick, and has a lot of features. the new ones have shutters, the older ones only have iris and zoom. all in all i like them.
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Not to get into a Revolution vs. Other MLs debate... This is just to straighten out some facts as I regularly work with 11 of these fixtures. The revolution is a nice tungsten fixture. It is in no way shape or form quick, that is what makes it not quite so quiet (though it claims to be, and is quieter than many fixtures). Also, any revolution, from the first one off the line to the one that came off the line today can use the same modules (though the new one have a different
scroller). So any Rev can have a combination of any two of the following: Static
Gobo Wheel (SWM), Rotating Gobo Wheel (RWM), Shutter Module (SM - rear bay only), Iris Module (IM), or Blank Module (BM). While I don't mind using them ,and they certainly get the job done, they are quite unwieldy, but they are a good theatre moving light at a decent price, which is what they were designed to be. You can integrate them into a rig of conventional fixtures and not have color temp matching issues which is nice.