Conventional Fixtures - Color Media Inventory poll

[MNicolai]

What's in your gel inventory?

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The difference between supplementary and primarily is that if you have even amounts of each, they would each be primarily, but if you have a small ratio of one company compared to another, that would then be a case where that company is supplementary in your inventory.



My inventory consists of an equal share of Rosco and LEE gels, but the closest we get to Apollo is for gobos, and we have nothing from GAM that I know of except for their swatch book.

[Clifford]

Most of what we have that's labelled is Rosco. We have some Apollo, but not as much. Everything that isn't marked seems to be Rosco, because it all, bar a few sheets, can be matched with something in my Rosco swatchbook.

[bdkdesigns]

We mainly stock Rosco. As I have said before, we carry 10-30 sheets of every color at the beginning of each year with select frosts. We also have a selection of specific Lee colors as well as a couple of Apollo and Gam colors. Perhaps next year we will be purchasing more Apollo sheets as well.

[DarSax]

Definitely for the most part Rosco, but some Lee/Gam to round out as necessary. Maybe, 3 sheets of apollo, I'd like to change that for some flavor.

On a side note, multi-choice poll? Eggcellent.

[Ross]

The few times I've had a designer ask for Apollo colors, they seemed to burn through much faster than the Rosco or Gam equivalent so I don't tend to keep much Apollo around. Anyone else experience this? On a cyc, it's expected but for colortran ers I'd like to get a little more life out of my color. Especially since we need to keep inventory of our used color as half of my year is booked in events who don't have a budget for gel.

[lieperjp]

I use mainly Rosco because that's what I have available to me...

In high school, I don't know what we had. I think it was a mix of Old Lee gels and New Rosco Gels, but I don't know. I only used them for dance lights, we got gels from the rental house with all our lights when we did musicals.

I would like to try Apollo lights, and I will look into it when I get my info and swatchbook from Kelite

[Saunier]

We have all rosco gels, but our gobos are apollo and they last FOREVER! Apollo gobos are great. We have one Lee gel color which is to replace R74 cause it burns instantly.

[waynehoskins]

Originally Posted by Saunier

We have one Lee gel color which is to replace R74 cause it burns instantly.

Interesting .. I get decent life out of 74, though it is really saturated and low %T. But I've also got some later Strand 2250s that will instantly melt through anything moderately dark .. seconds, if that .. weird.

There's anything other than Rosco out there?

[Wolf]

Seems like most everybody here and other places use Rosco (myself included) its always what I use and what we have in school. But why?

[ishboo]

We stock Rosco.. now. Thanks to new management we are labeling and sorting all of our gels, before we had a teacher in charge we had them all over the place in six different folder: blue yellow purple orange red and green (yikes) now everything is good. I'm not sure why everyone (almost) uses Rosco, their gels seem to be a higher quality I guess and it's more of an industry standard.