Friday, March 13, 2015
Latest Theatre-Optimized Lighting From Elation To Show At USITT 2015
Briefing Room content from Live Design: Theatre professionals will soon be gathering for the 2015 USITT show, North America’s most important conference and expo for performing arts technology, where Elation Professional will be showing the latest in its line of theatre-optimized lighting.
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I would be interested to hear what the price point for these units will be. I have to imagine that as usual, Elation is targeting the lower end of the market, that ETC has priced out of its product lineup. I wonder exactly what kind of quality trade offs are made with the cheaper pricetag. The one big piece of Elation gear we have at school, the LED Wall, can be a massive pain to work with. The panel hardware connections are a pain to work with, and there seems to be no dearth of dead pixels and junked strips. Luckily it is cheap so we have many replacement panels... I assume Elation is going a similar route with these units. That being said, in a TV or broadcast setting where the units are deployed once and then left in the same configuration for years on end, I wonder if the extra difficulty to work with is negated.
I suppose that it says something about the institutions I have worked in that I have had the good fortune to mainly avoid using Elation equipment...
While the name “Elation” in lighting equipment has always been synonymous with “cheap piece of crap” in my mind, I would be willing to see how their catch-up-to-the-LEDS4 fixture works. I really have no experience with it on which to judge, but their company has a reputation for making cheap, and fairly low quality instruments, moving lights and consoles. One of the major issues with LEDs is that they are hard to get really high output put of and still be finely controllable. I would expect that these fixtures dimming is steppy and rather ugly at low intensities. Unless I use them somewhere else first and I like them, I would not want to use them given the choice, and will probably not ask for them.
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