Go to your room, you're on a time out.
Go to your room, you're on a time out.
SteveB, didn't mean to touch a nerve. Focusing 25 units an hour is painful? For buffet lighting in ballrooms, hotels here CHARGE an hour (at $50-90) labor to focus 6 units/hour. I average about 20units/hour, just me and a Scissor lift, depending on how crowded with tables and chairs the room is. (And whether or not I'm on overtime yet.)
I've often wondered the wisdom of R132 in every ERS also, as you have to pull it during focus, get a "blue-line" edge, make shutter cuts, put it back in, and then often re-adjust shutters. AND sometimes still "run the barrel." (Should have been), good thinking to put it in an extra frame.
DO share more of your rants/war stories in the future. I think we all find them entertaining, both to learn from, and to commiserate with. Significant others just don't seem to understand, sometimes.
Yes, that works. PUNISH him by sending him to his room, where he has a laptop, internet, plasma TV, DVD, cable TV, TiVo, WiFi, iPod, Playstation, 8-tracks and cassettes in stereo...oh, won't you staaaay, just a little bit longerrrr... But I digress, whatever happened to standing in a corner, with your nose holding a penny against the wall, and if it dropped you got another 15 minutes? That's the problem with kids today--no discipline.Go to your room, you're on a time out.
Ah..you remind me.8-tracks and cassettes in stereo
I believe Hi-Low is a brand name. I don't know what a hand fork is, you mean pallet jack?. To Hughesie89, one cannot do the Rolling Stones and their 27x 53' trucks without 5 forklifts.Derek, you're right, I should have sent him to his closet and let the cat have at him. See, "normal" kids like me never had all dem fancy new fangled contraptions in their room. I never got sent to my room, I was usually already there, listening to LP records or watching my 13" B&W TV, all three stations.
The GAM book has the four digit CTO is smaller print below the main numbers. Or at least my book does. Does your book say 3/98 on the back? That's all the ones they send me ever say. I can't believe they haven't updated in that long, I'm still trying to get a sample of the new colors. Yes, I have the 3/98 version, nothing like a 10-year-old swatchbook. And if they want me to use the 15xx numbers, why aren't they with the rest of the 15xx's?
Whatever, go ahead and hate my 1/3 CTB. I'd enjoy watching you try to tell the difference between unlabeled cuts of R60, R61, R206, R4215, and L202. Maybe I'll find me a Roscolene book so I can do plots for my lighting class all in Roscolene. No, Cinemoid. Just use all Lee and change the "L1" to "5". I dare you. Send me your plot, just for giggles. Unless you're afraid...
Forklift? My mom worked for FedEx, she always called em Hi-Lows. It's all about the hand truck and hand fork YEAAAAAA!!!
Sounds like you have a good focus system. I think I tried to get Grog12 to buy a lift like yours, but he bought, or already had the Genie version instead. Did the local guys complain any when you eliminated the ladder crew?
I buy lamps from Bulbtronics. I've been contemplating buying gel from them as well, as they can get it to me in a day, but they are not (to my knowledge) GAM nor Apollo dealers. They should be. I'm of the opinion that the more choices the better and I would never dictate to a visiting LD that they change a color choice just because it's what I have in stock (well - not usually for that reason), as I can order. I still need the dealer to have all the range though and a reasonable stock.
Steve B.
Well Keith, while I can see and understand your point, as well as the vendor's, Las Vegas Hotels (and many other markets) are NOT going to accept or change to ApolloGel until there's a stocking dealer in town. I've said before, I've never had a "gel emergency" as in "If I don't get 6 sheets of APXXXX, this show is not going to happen," but consumers still want to know they can run to (insert favorite vendor here) and pick up that last sheet of XXXX.
Too many good ideas, taking this offline now.
And while the JIT (Just In Time) philosophy has trickled into our lighting market, we have also caused the dealer not to stock all gobo styles and sizes, as well as gel transmission- because there are SO many choices.
Bulbtronics does sell Apollo gel (normally as a dropshipped item from our place directly to the school/church/theater) in combination with Apollo gobos. It is often less costly from a shipping perspective when a custom gobo will be dropshipped from Apollo anyway- why not save the additional shipping charge from Bulbtronics (or other dealer) and have gobos and gel shipped together for one fee, rather than several shipping fees. (?)
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