So I asked myself the other day, "Why don't we see a few white LED PARs or battens offered to the theater crowd?"
Realizing the need for a full spectrum of color for gels to actually look like they are supposed to- who would be interested in these fixtures?
Let the games begin!
< A) Not having to replace lamps, B) Color mixing and not having to buy gel.>
Yes, absolutely right. The replacement issue would save plenty of time, risk, and lamps themselves. Do you find the current theatrical offering of RGB LED's able to reproduce the gel colors you've grown accustomed to?
Wouldn't it be easier to use your favorite gel in the frame of the white light LED?
The five-hundred year-old practice of depositing colored light on the stage via subtractive filters is inherently wasteful and inefficient, and will not/can not continue much longer. At some point sooner rather than later, Apollo Gel, Roscolux, Lee, and GAM will go the way of Brigham and Roscolene. Additive mixing may be the answer, but I suspect new light sources and fixtures, which haven't been developed yet will be the true panacea. Imagine sitting at the lighting desk, and typing in the nanometers of the color you want, the amount of lumens you want on the stage, and the size of the pool desired. Yes, all of this can somewhat happen now, but there are better ways of achieving the desired results--they just haven't been invented yet.So I asked myself the other day, "Why don't we see a few white LED PARs or battens offered to the theater crowd?"
Realizing the need for a full spectrum of color for gels to actually look like they are supposed to- who would be interested in these fixtures?...
short-sighted to even consider putting gel on an LED source--big step backwards. A forward step is to look at a fixture such as the CK IW ColorBlast 12, which has both "warm" and a "cool" sets of LEDs, and allows the user to select any desired color temperature from 3000K-6500K.
Sorry Keith, I find it short-sighted of you to even consider putting gel on an LED source--big step backwards. A forward step is to look at a fixture such as the CK IW ColorBlast 12, which has both "warm" and a "cool" sets of LEDs, and allows the user to select any desired color temperature from 3000K-6500K. I'm surprised no other manufacturer has yet to take up this idea and put it into a more familiar form factor, such as a PAR housing.
Touché, soundlight. But I don't see an integral color frame holder so I can put L343 in it! And would it be useful at any throw over five feet (with the 343)? And what happens to the 95% of light absorbed by the filter?
Oh, also. Gobos: on their way toward obsolence. Buy stock in Blue Pony. However, gafftaper and gafftapegreenia should be happy to hear that gaffer's tape will always be necessary, until we get that wireless power thing worked out.
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