Just one of your proud dealers doing his job.
Let's be fair to the other
Gobo MFR's and
Gobo dealears out there... One's job in offering advice - even tongue and cheek, also ends once one signs onto this website.
Lots of dealers for gobos and custom gobos out there. Plugs and stuff like that's fine to some extent.... but not overall fair to the market not represented or professionally spoken for. You can also say get a 24 hour
turnaround -
call and sending of graphics to delivery of the gobos, of a
Rosco custom
gobo amongst other suppiers on the market for starts. I'm a big fan of reps from manufacturers and their distributers that take a more
neutral stance in while not being silent in who they represent, being fair and providing the knowledge without the sales
pitch. Say a
plug for their product but overall have something to say about the technology in a more brand
neutral way first.
But that's just me who was raised in a college world where by I learned the
Rosco gel colors by number in school, thus following that tended to use what I memorized over that of other brands that were not as easy to find the color choice to. It's also me however that would rather keep the end user informed of all potential choices and let them learn some rather than them growing up in my experience of only normally choosing other than say the
Rosco gel - as that's all I experienced thus trusted.
To be fair in other suppliers, I'm aware of "
Gobo Express", "In-Lite", OptiKinetics,
Rosco,
Apollo, and
GAM making gobos and would not be surprised by lots of others also doing such things given I don't normally buy such stuff. Also that such manufacturers can also make stencils for marking your gear without a problem if you ask. What's best in brand, I don't know - depends upon what you are trying to do. None the less, intent is to be fair in posting advice.
Should it be wished to post a topic of debate about the construction and sales techniques of all the various brands of
gobo, I'm sure that any other brand once given the chance to sell their wears also would have equal sounding good
pitch to what they sell. Not the intent of this forum for such vendor debates. Instead it's advice in general and not specific product related short of that debate. I hope in the future all suppliers and manufacturers comply with such an intent to keep it fair.