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Lighting products I'd like to play with

The Chauvet Nexus 4×4. Chauvet is a company that started their foray into professional lighting relatively recently, and they’ve certainly got some creative minds working at the company. Nexus 4×4 panel The Nexus 4×4 is basically a pixel-mapping wash light in a square format, which lends itself well to large-format LED displays. I saw a few at PLASA Nashville and was impressed with the quality of the LED source mixing before output, as well as the output itself, which was higher than I would have expected. Although pixel-mapping fixture are the trick de jour in the lighting industry today, it’s still an extremely impressive effect when well-executed. Forty of these on Alan would make my day.

Review – the Robe MMX spot

Robe MMX spot These are my primary spot moving lights, and they’re made by the (lesser known, in the States at least) Czech company Robe. (Pronounced row-bee.) The MMX spot uses the Phillips Platinum 35 lamp, an 800-watt short arc lamp that the company says is close to the output of traditional 1200-watt sources. I think that’s fair if we’re talking about an older light like the MAC 2000, which they are comparable to. However, newer 1200-watt lights like the VL3000 still certainly have a noticeable output edge. But that’s okay, because what these light lack in output, they make up for in features, speed, weight, and size. The MMX (I have no idea what this initialism stands for, if… Read More »Review – the Robe MMX spot