What's the options to choose from given a test question?
Try making it into some kind of a
poll because besides the spelling is right except not capatalizing
Fresnel or
Lee as proper names. I'm not even sure what the question is and having answers to choose from which would help me understand it given it's some kind of question you already have the answer to. Otherwise, if you do not have the answer, can you put a little more explination into the question you seek an answer to?
Given it's a candy type question:
My guess,
Fresnel being what a lighting
instrument is called that uses that style of
lens made by a French physicist, Augustin Jean
Fresnel and probably brought to market and trade name status by either
Colortran if that old as a company,
Strand or Kliegl, but
Lee somehow owns it now, perhaps than
Fresnel would only be a propre name to a
Lee Colortran product, the rest being slang names for similar lights - as a thought but probably not an accurate one. This would be similar to
Leko being a trade name for a Century product as bought out by
Strand,
Strand ellipsoidals are the only fixtures now officially carrying the title and brand name of
Leko.
Perhaps the question or answer is that if
Colortran was the company that introduced fixtures with
Fresnel lenses to which I am not aware of, than
Lee would perhaps have trademark rights to it. Subsiquent to the question, if
Lee retained the rights to calling their
Fresnel lensed fixtures Fresnels, than that would be a difference between a
fresnel and a
lee fresnel, even though
Lee as a company does not and has never made fixtures, and you did not make the second use of
Fresnel following
Lee proper names as a clue, much less proper use of the language. Are you confused yet???
Let me try more...
Lee as a company used to own
Colortran, and
Colortran has been known to make some darn good Fresnels. But
Lee as a company apart from
Colortran never did. Or
Lee is not much responsible for the Fresnels that
Colortran built while owned by
Lee, but
Lee if owning
Colortran Fresnels at the same time as
Lee owned
Colortran, could
gain the name of
Lee Fresnels similar to how
Strand took over the Century title of
Leko and uses it for thier own. On the other
hand, since
Colortran has been owned by many companies and
Colortran, assuming it ended it's existance such as Century did with
Strand,
Lee cannot take any more credit for a
Colortran title
Fresnel given they owned the trademark to it, or anything
colortran manufactured, more than
Strand would be able to take credit for or offer parts to Berkley
Colortran Fresnels even though they both had the
Colortran name. Also the fact that
Strand never called their Fresnels anything different after they stopped owning
Colortran thus it can't be a trademark specific to
Lee such as
Leko is to
Strand.
Colortran is now owned by NSI/
Leviton, calling the
Leviton help
line most probably will not get me the answer to your question either by the way, nor will
Lee as a
gel and tool company have a clue about Fresnels.
I don't get it, much less what the main difference between a
Fresnel from
Lee Colortran - given that's the link and all other Fresnels would be if that's the question. The beam spread, shape and lamp type while unique certainly is certainly not unique to a
instrument of that name.
It might also be a little too specific and vague a question for most people to know. Can you expand?
Perhaps it's in refrence to the fact that
lee is a misspelling for "le" - thus your spelling question
mark, a French "the" and the
lens was invented by the French person responsible for it's name that is also responsible the collapse on Young's partical theory of light making way for the
current Wave theory? Is that a part of the answer???
Got my brain a humping too hard, please explain with more than a "LOL".