Can a Scoop be used as a simple LINNEBACH PROJECTOR?

[TupeloTechie]

I was just wondering if a scoop light could be used as an LINNEBACH PROJECTOR? As the effect would be very useful in an upcoming production of crimes of the heart.

also, these scoops are the ones with pre-focus lamp bases, not screw.

[Footer]

Depends where the object you want to "project" is, and the spread of the fixture. I know fresnels and any ERS work well for this, but its worth a try with the scoop.

[gafftapegreenia]

I think it would work if you blacked out the reflector with black wrap.

[JD]

You would be better off with a point source light as you are trying to project something and the diffuse reflector on a scoop would take all the detail out of the image. The original Linnebach projector was a point source light in a big metal box which you would put a large transparency over, thus projecting a background. (Later units worked more like a regular projector with a lens)
If you had an old scoop that you didn't care about, you could paint the inside with flat black stove paint and put a small filament quartz lamp in it. You would need to suspend the transparency slightly away from the front to reduce heat buildup. Good luck!

[TupeloTechie]

I don't really need much detail, I was just wanting to use them to project cloudy like blobs on the cyc, as we don't have the money or time to order gobos for the effect.

[David Ashton]

If you remove the lens from a fresnel that works fine and you still have the framing of your image with the barndoors and the ability to make it as wide as you need with the focus.

[TupeloTechie]

we don't have any extra fresnels

[derekleffew]

Originally Posted by JD

Y...The original Linnebach projector was a point source light in a big metal box which you would put a large transparency over, thus projecting a background. (Later units worked more like a regular projector with a lens)...

If it has a lens it can't, by definition, be called a Linnebach projector.

[derekleffew]

Originally Posted by TupeloTechieKid

I don't really need much detail, I was just wanting to use them to project cloudy like blobs on the cyc, as we don't have the money or time to order gobos for the effect.

Don't tell KELITE I said this, but disposable aluminum cookie sheets are inexpensive at the grocery store and a "cloud shape" is fairly easy to cut out with a utility knife. One ERS on each end of the 1st electric cross-shooting onto the cyc and fuzzed out can look great for about $5 in materials and 30 minutes time.

Or you could rent 10 MAC2000 Performances and buy custom cloud animation wheels from Apollo.

[TupeloTechie]

Originally Posted by derekleffew

Don't tell KELITE I said this, but disposable aluminum cookie sheets are inexpensive at the grocery store and a "cloud shape" is fairly easy to cut out with a utility knife. One ERS on each end of the 1st electric cross-shooting onto the cyc and fuzzed out can look great for about $5 in materials and 30 minutes time.
Or you could rent 10 MAC2000 Performances and buy custom cloud animation wheels from Apollo.

well... I will also say that the 2 ERSs we have are both already being used with homemade gobos for a stage breakup wash...

This space is not the greatest, whoever was in charge before our current administrator "traded" all of the ERS's on the FOH bar for Par 64s. And whats bad is that he traded them 1 for 1... stupid.