Blatantly false, inherently incorrect statements, as was discussed in this thread: http://www.controlbooth.com/forums/lighting-electrics/24736-light-par-can.html .
What the h3ck is this supposed to mean?Uses: PARs are used for lighting from extreme angles.
2. Saturate is an adjective.
2. Saturate is an adjective.
1. It may not be used that way very often, but saturate IS an adjective. Period.
2. In every IA roadhouse and on every IA tour that I ever worked on (and every tour I ever worked on period) the bottle is the piece of ceramic that is attached to the lamp. When the LD says rotate the bottle you reach into the back of the unit, grab the ceramic and twist. I have never seen the term bottle used any other way in any setting I have ever been in. Please explain to me your version of what the bottle is. It takes two seconds for the conversation to go....
"Rotate the bottle"
"What is the bottle?"
"The ceramic that holds the lamp in place."
"Oh, okay."
And technically it is NOT a bottle, so it is better if the person knows what it is to begin with and then learns the slang term for it. But just to appease picky road house local crew, I updated the article with the word bottle in it.
Just like a f-nut or j-nut is a set screw (and when I do a tech article on focusing a light, I will refer to it as a set screw, not a f-nut or j-nut).
Slang term for lamp/globe, particularly PAR64 lamps which have an oval beam (axis), as in (heard during focus) "Spin the bottle to horizontal."
1. Yes. Read the rest of your link. Saturate adj.
2. Yes, I know, but apparently it has some other meaning. That I am not aware of since I covered that in my article, but apparently missed another, different meaning.
I've used cyc lights succesfuly as both back light and downlight with out it lighting up the audience and theatre walls, hell I even have pictures in the show us your show's thread in the lighting forum.For example, in college we decided to see what an Altman Sky Cyc hung directly over our black box stage and gelled in RGBA would look like. I mean really, it is just a wash light with a greater angle on one end than the other and a directional throw. So if we hung it downstage center a bit, then it should technically light the whole stage in a nice, even wash.
Wrong. It threw light literally everywhere. It lit up the set, the audience, even the theater walls. It looked terrible. There is a reason that it is a cyc light.
I've used both PAR's and Fresnels as front light. Barn doors are a must though in this situation IMHO.Similarly, there is a reason that ERS units are used for front light. PARs are just too uncontrollable. They are fine for TV or film (and I use them for that exact use all the time in those areas), because the camera acts as shutters for the unit. But in theater? Except in very specific situations, they are just not acceptable in that role.
Thanks Gern I had no idea!
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