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    What pays your bills!

    I have a day job in engineering, and spend many, many evenings doing local theatre for wages taht would not keep my family fed or a roof over our heads. But the income allows me to maintain my gear, buy some new stuff as funds permit, and I get to a) teach interested students, b) hang out with...
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    Converting OLD gel to new gel, any ideas?

    Love this gel history. Thank you. I didn't start lighting until 1981. Good thing I waited that long. Had I discovered technical theatre in college, I probably would not have graduated. So my Roscolene book is my oldest.
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    Converting OLD gel to new gel, any ideas?

    I'm confirming that Roscolene is 800 series (yes, I still have a swatchbook here). Unfortunately I don't have any 500 (Cinemoid) swatch books sitting around.
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    Laser power question...

    Lasers are mono-chromatic. That means they emit light only in a very, very, very narrow spectrum of color. So no, a color filter will not change the color unless it is (unlikely) a multi-line laser. And from a previous entry in this thread, 5mW is perfectly legal, so the 3mW system from Foy...
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