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BSD at LDI, and other acronyms

Here are some exciting production-related news things, which may or may not be new, but are at least awesome. – The Martin MAC Quantum Profile debuts at LDI in a few weeks, and Blueshift Design will be there with Elite Multimedia looking at gear. This will be Martin’s first foray into a full-featured LED profile, and I’m excited to see what their engineers bring to the table in terms of brightness, quality of light, and color-mixing. – The ETC ColorSource PAR is now a thing, and it has, unusually for an LED PAR fixture, a lime-green emitter and an extra red emitter. ETC’s literature on the device seems to indicate that both red sources emit the same wavelength, which is… Read More »BSD at LDI, and other acronyms

Chauvet's new LEDs dim with an external dimmer

Oooh, this is cool. Chauvet has introduced two new LED fixtures that dims with an external dimmer, instead of needing DMX directly, though you can dim it that way, too: This is a really brilliant idea, because you just directly swap your old Altman ellipsoidal or Fresnel onto the circuit and get the full benefits of LED, without needing to run a DMX line up to the unit. I hope this speeds along adoption of LED tech, because all those incandescent lamps burning waste so much energy that it’s almost obscene. The faster we can get rid of incandescent, the better.