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Introducing ETC's Newest and Most Innovative Products
ETC is showing some of its newest and most innovative products on its stand at ABTT this year.
The Selador series of LED fixtures is actually three products - that way lighting designers can make their selection based on what type of performance they want from their lamps.
Paletta's unique blend of seven colours of LEDs was selected to provide the depth of colour LDs are used to from their favourite saturated gels. Meanwhile, Lustr uses a different blend of seven colours which are optimised for producing broad spectrum whites and tinted colours - solving the traditional LED problem of making people look unnatural. The third product in the Selador series is the high output colour mixing Vivid. This combines the Selador x7 Color System with powerful K2 emitters from Luxeon, for the highest output currently available.
Selador's x7 Color System seven-hue technology produces a light and colour quality that conventional LED systems cannot duplicate. This unique system produces bright broad-spectrum whites and intense colours equally well, rendering pigments and skin tones in a far more natural way. You can read more about the x7 Color System on Rob Gerlach's blog at www.etcconnect.com/lightminds .
Also on the ETC's ABTT stand is its latest lighting control desk, Element, which is based on Eos software and is designed as a replacement for ETC's successful Express line of desks. It is aimed at smaller theatrical venues and schools that depend on single desk operators or volunteer staff.
ETC's controls product manager Sarah Clausen explains the thinking behind this latest offering: "ETC defined the basic lighting controller when the ETC Express lighting control system was introduced in 1995. We've seen over time that the basic lighting rig has changed. With Element, we've redefined what a basic lighting control desk means."
ETC has addressed a number of special requirements in this new desk. Element is engineered with true LTP channel faders for handling simple shows directly or for building up looks for use as submasters or cues, or for editing levels live. By turning a switch, Element's channel faders become 40 submasters for simple playback of live shows.
The desk navigates basic accessory, LED and moving light control at the press of a button. The on demand moving light controls appear on screen with tools designed to control smaller numbers of non-intensity equipment like scrollers, gobo rotators and mirror heads.
In Picture: Selador and Element are two of ETC's latest products to be demonstrated at ABTT 2009
10th June 2009
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