The post above covers most of the basics. It does have that beautiful 7 color
LED palate that we all know and love. A lot of people's major concerns is how does it hold up against the traditional S4s? well they are not yet bright enough to
beat out a 575 on pure white but since you don't need to
drop gel for color you're not cutting down your output from the transmission rate of the
gel. So it can punch deeper colors better then previously. Also I believe the
ETC guy mentioned that they will be releasing an
LED version that is just white LEDs to which you can obviously
drop gel into.
Now for gobos.... The only issue with them that is when you run the
barrel one way you do get a slight
RGB.... whatever halo (run it the other way and its fine i forget which way does what). But they have plastic like diffusion (heavier then typical
gel) with a 95% transmission rate that you can
drop in that eliminates this problem and since the
gate is so cool I wonder if you could indeed just
drop a regular diffusion like an R100 or something similar.
Hope this helps a little
bit and answers some questions.