That's impressive. They will sell a ton at that price point.List on the Source 4WRD Color is $732 USD, so street price will be somewhere around $585
Question for @STEVETERRY , can the Source 4wrd Color still project gobos with that homogenizer film in front of the reflector? In the video, @Jim Uphoff had his hand in front of the beam and the shadow looked pretty good, but gobos weren't mentioned in the video, one way or another.
Yeah, there's the catch. Like you said, not surprising and it's actually amazing that they have been able to cram that many lumens into such a small space. But as you said, my wash is all 750's, so outright upgrading everything in my wash isn't an option. Going back to ETC's "Layers of Light" theory, adding them into your existing wash of 750's would be a big win. So if you have the fixtures to do that it's a great option. I currently have a pair of 750's for front light in each area of the stage (one R02, one R60). Swapping over to an R02 and an S4WRD Color in each area might be a pretty sweet trick. We'll have to do some real world experimenting on that.Not surprisingly, it's much dimmer than I think most venues might hope for. 4880 lumens at full. Obviously, when in saturated colors it will be ok vs 575, but most folks are using 750's these days it seems. But, the design required for this device doesn't leave much room for a bright array so i'm sure it's about as much as they could do at this point. It will certainly allow more facilities to get into the technology at least due to price point and existing inventory of S4 bodies and lenses.
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I'd love to see some figures on its color rendering, and what sort of output it has, especially in comparison to a CS Spot / CS Spot jr. It's starting to be a crowded field.
I hope it avoids all the overtemp issues the S4Wrds had.
Question for @STEVETERRY , can the Source 4wrd Color still project gobos with that homogenizer film in front of the reflector? In the video, @Jim Uphoff had his hand in front of the beam and the shadow looked pretty good, but gobos weren't mentioned in the video, one way or another.
Yeah, there's the catch. Like you said, not surprising and it's actually amazing that they have been able to cram that many lumens into such a small space. But as you said, my wash is all 750's, so outright upgrading everything in my wash isn't an option. Going back to ETC's "Layers of Light" theory, adding them into your existing wash of 750's would be a big win. So if you have the fixtures to do that it's a great option. I currently have a pair of 750's for front light in each area of the stage (one R02, one R60). Swapping over to an R02 and an S4WRD Color in each area might be a pretty sweet trick. We'll have to do some real world experimenting on that.
I love the idea of retrofitting some spare S4 PARs I have on a shelf. I also have 10 S4's in my box booms with Seachangers and breakup gobos that I use for a colored texture wash. They are currently lamped as 750's but the Seachangers cut a lot of lumens. Switching to S4WRD Color would probably give me at least the same amount of light and add some additional depth to the color too. So, yeah... not the dream 750 replacement, but give them a couple of years and that may happen. In the mean time, it's still incredibly useful in a lot of applications.
Bummer, but still an exciting product. Congratulations on this Steve. I'm sure your team has put in a lot of work for a VERY long time to figure out how to do the impossible on this one.
not the dream 750 replacement
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