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rustystuff
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I want a "MAC 2000"-"Source4 Revolution" Hybrid made by Selador. An instrument designed for theater, not dance clubs. Quick and Quiet moving, Stationary and rotating Gobos, powerful light output, remote iris, zoom, focus, and shutter cuts. Let's make it LED so it uses very little electricity and has rich colors. But I want some serious Lumen output on this bad boy... so we better use a bunch of 10 Watt LEDS.
Oh yeah and let's price it under $2,000.
Anybody else want a few dozen?
Oh yeah and let's price it under $2,000.
Anybody else want a few dozen?
StNic54
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Focus Dummy:
Radio Controlled, just like those toys I couldn't afford as a child with big monster wheels, a mannequin with remote-adjustable height (for short actors, tall actors), a wide base, and all with a radio range for focusing on those days where you just don't have enough crew - like meddlesome community theatre days!
Basically, my focus dummy could drive anywhere on the set, have strong enough brakes to handle a raked set, and a little propellor that can come out of the mannequin's back (yes, like Inspector Gadget) so it can fly to different levels of the scenery. This way you aren't just lighting the floor, and guessing its ok, or lighting the floor, standing in it later, and then going back for a refocus.
Before any clever answers arise, I know this is solved by meeting people, but just the same, if you can't afford to pay someone, then you probably can't afford my focus dummy. I just think gadgets operated from the catwalks would be cool, and it would drive and fly.....
Radio Controlled, just like those toys I couldn't afford as a child with big monster wheels, a mannequin with remote-adjustable height (for short actors, tall actors), a wide base, and all with a radio range for focusing on those days where you just don't have enough crew - like meddlesome community theatre days!
Basically, my focus dummy could drive anywhere on the set, have strong enough brakes to handle a raked set, and a little propellor that can come out of the mannequin's back (yes, like Inspector Gadget) so it can fly to different levels of the scenery. This way you aren't just lighting the floor, and guessing its ok, or lighting the floor, standing in it later, and then going back for a refocus.
Before any clever answers arise, I know this is solved by meeting people, but just the same, if you can't afford to pay someone, then you probably can't afford my focus dummy. I just think gadgets operated from the catwalks would be cool, and it would drive and fly.....
Personally, I'd just like to see a small, inexpensive moving ellipsoidal that was dependable. No I don't need iris control, or any of that stuff, or an extra strong beam, I just want a very compact motorized mechanism to aid in focusing. Well, shutter control would be nice, but yea.'
edit: Turns out that exists, in the City Theatrical AutoYoke. I'll have to look into that.
edit: Turns out that exists, in the City Theatrical AutoYoke. I'll have to look into that.
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What Rigger?
I'm so fly....I Neverland.
How about wireless electricity. You know, without all that bummer "electrocution" everyone's so worried about nowadays.
What Rigger?
I'm so fly....I Neverland.
I forget who mentioned it, but as of right now, neither altman or ETC have been able to come up with a source 4/shaekespeare leko as it were....the optics involved are incredibly huge....the one prototype that was described to me was about 6 feet long....its a problem with heat sinks and making it a single point source (ie no pixelation near the lense)...however the altman led star par is an incredible fixture with about 80% the punch of a standard source full...check out the newer pulsar led par...they seem to be on the right track as well
soundlight
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Oh that would work well.
