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Fixture review: The Claypaky Sinfonya Profile 600

This review originally appeared in PLSN. Author’s note: this article is written based on specifications and video footage, and I have not physically seen the fixture. Further, as of the time of this writing, the user manual for this fixture is incomplete, so several aspects of features and fixture control are unable to be evaluated at this time. -CR Theater environments present unique demands. Noise, of course, is an obvious one – actors are not always sound reinforced, relying on power and elocution to be heard in the cheap economy seats, so quiet fixtures are a must. Quality of light is equally or more important – theaters somewhat famously being holdouts on the LED revolution in favor of what they… Read More »Fixture review: The Claypaky Sinfonya Profile 600

Marketing Hype (Or, There Is Always A Catch)

Today I want to talk about something a little different: how we use language to describe the world, the incremental march of technology, immutable physical laws, accuracy in marketing, and how these converge in the case of a prototype product. This will probably wax a bit philosophical, so if that’s your jam, read on. Technology moves incrementally, and batteries are a perfect example. How many times have you seen a Popular Science or Mechanics, or any of the hundred similar magazines on the newsstand, and seen eyeball-grabbing headlines sizzling like so much bacon across the front covers? Promises of new nanotechnology-enabled tech making batteries that last ten times as long and that can charge within seconds. (See here, here, here.)… Read More »Marketing Hype (Or, There Is Always A Catch)