Sunday I went to a short seminar on digital lighting. The material covered Media servers especially catalyst, the DL and DL 2 as well as content creations. A hog 3 was brought in for control. In short the DL and DL 2 were a lot bigger than I thought and heavy to match, we had 3 people to take each light out of the case. With the large head size the pan and tilt were a little on the slow side. The output was rather intense though. We did not meter the light but under the work lights the images was sharp. When we focused a studio spot 575 over the image it appeared washed out but still visible.
Both catalyst and the DL 2 came with lots of stock content. Most of the content was “trippy” but there were some gobos (Apollo’s catalog?) Over all cool toys but they were very loud (the DL 2 more so than the DL 1) and the cost is prohibitive of all but the largest budgets.
If anyone has any questions I’m no expert but I’ll try and help.
Mike
P.S. all that is in the head is an off the shelf projector, kind of ruins the magic.
Both catalyst and the DL 2 came with lots of stock content. Most of the content was “trippy” but there were some gobos (Apollo’s catalog?) Over all cool toys but they were very loud (the DL 2 more so than the DL 1) and the cost is prohibitive of all but the largest budgets.
If anyone has any questions I’m no expert but I’ll try and help.
Mike
P.S. all that is in the head is an off the shelf projector, kind of ruins the magic.