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Essential World’s First Lighting Rental Company to Stock Barco’s Scenic LED Fixtures
Essential Lighting Group has made a significant investment in Barco equipment and as a result claims to be the world’s first lighting rental company stocking Barco’s MiTRIX and MiSTRIP Scenic LED fixtures.
MiTRIX is a lightweight, bright and highly transparent LED module with 16 by 8 pixels and a pixel pitch of 24mm. MiSTRIP, a linear pixel strip with 13.25mm inline pixel pitch, can be freely spaced to suit the resolution required, offering immense flexibility in a wide variety of applications.
These IP65 rated, bright fixtures allow the designer to either quickly build suspended or ground supported semi-transparent displays, or dynamically integrate a scenic LED effect with any pixel pitch, into the set and space available.
These new scenic LED fixtures allow Essential to offer production companies, set designers, production managers and lighting designers new capabilities to help differentiate their next project with fresh, innovative and dynamic lighting and scenic effects.
Essential’s technical director Martin Lubach said: “The creative LED range uses video images which are accurately mapped to the chosen LED configuration using the powerful Director Toolkit software. There’s no need for video clips to be pixel mapped into DMX512 signals with the resulting loss of image quality and low refresh rate. The system is easy to configure and control without the dedicated video crew usually associated with these kinds of products.”
Essential’s managing director Martin Locket added: “We have always been focused on providing our clients with the equipment and services they need to make their event as visually stunning as possible. This new equipment takes this to the next level by blurring both the technical and affordability issues that surround video, placing these new capabilities firmly in the control of the lighting designer.”
The 55% transparency of MiTRIX means that you can light through the panels, combining the scenic effects of these fixtures with other LED lighting, moving lights or simply not obscuring your set design.
The best way to understand and explore the flexibility and possibilities of these new Scenic LED fixtures is to see them, and Essential has created a dedicated demonstration and pre-production facility opening in May.
With a series of open days, demonstrations and presentations from Barco, these promise to be must-attend events. Existing Essential customers will be receiving an invitation shortly, whilst other interested parties should contact Stephen Craggs on 0208 335 6000 for more details.
11th April 2007
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