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Apollo Design Technology showed its new collection of gobo patterns for 2006. A neat new product was a tapered top hat for conventional fixtures. These can be stacked on top of one another, taking up just a tenth of the space of a normal collection of top hats.

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UK - The nominees for this year's Laurence Olivier Awards, presented by the Society of London Theatres, were announced yesterday. White Light would like to congratulate lighting designers Paule Constable, Rick Fisher, Howard Harrison and Hugh Vanstone, along with the nominees in all of the other categories.

The lighting designers were nominated for Don Carlos at the Gielgud, lit by last year's winner, Paule Constable; Billy Elliot at the Victoria Palace, lit by Rick Fisher, Guys and Dolls at the Piccadilly, lit by Howard Harrison, and Mary Stuart at the Donmar Warehouse and then the Apollo, lit by Hugh Vanstone. Guys and Dolls and Billy Elliot were also nominated in many other categories, receiving a total of eight and nine nominations respectively.

Of the lighting nominees, two shows, Billy Elliot and Mary Stuart used li

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Pathway Connectivity has incorporated DIN-rail mounting, popular in industrial controls, into its new line of eDIN DMX distribution and interface products. They include four-way DMX opto-splitters, 12-way DMX contractors, and 16-way DMX demultiplexers in eDIN modules, with additional products on the way. Pathway also introduced the new DMXManager Plus! This product provides four ports that can be user-configured as any combination of inputs and outputs.

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A.C. Lighting's main announcement was the introduction of the Chroma-Q Color Web - a transparent, modular LED matrix developed by Artistic Licence (as Pixi-Web). Featuring a unique modular design, each flexible 1sq.m panel provides 16 individually addressable colour mixing LED cells with a pitch of 250mm. Panels clip together on all four sides and can even be joined over distances using separately available interlinking cables, giving users complete control over the size and shape of their display area.

As only 20% of the surface area is taken up by the lightweight, flexible webbing, it offers unparalleled transparency for double hanging or multi-layering at distances. Color Web can be lit through for integration with set and other lighting elements. The product is also extremely cost-effective: 10 x 1m panels with PSU would weigh less and be size and cost comparable to a moving light,

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Rosco showed several new products, including Infinity Effects, a new gobo animation device offering kinetic lighting effects combined with simplicity of use and low cost; Keystroke, the hardware/software solution for running PowerPoint projections directly from your DMX control board; and the upgraded X-Effects projector, which now has onboard DMX and a mechanical dowser. New colours from Rosco include Hemsley Blue, designed by Mark Stanley, lighting director for New York City Ballet, in honour of his mentor, the late Gilbert V. Hemsley, Jr., and Pale Bastard Amber, created by Michael Chybowski to warm the light of an ETC Source Four to enhance skin tones.

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Sunlite showed the 2006 suite package of its Easy Stand Alone system. This version adds a new stand-alone Ethernet DMX 512 interface (IP version) to the already existing USB-DMX interface.

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Element Labs displayed the new Versa Pixel system, which allows a video wall to contain any shape or size of pixel. Also on show was a new mounting system for the Versa Tube system.

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Something new in LEDs is Selador's X7, which uses seven colours - red, green, blue, amber, red-orange, cyan, and indigo - for a more sophisticated form of colour mixing. The company offers its LEDs in a number of strip and block configurations for different uses.

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Wyatt Enever left DHA Lighting, the company he helped build for 25 years, at the end of March 2005. Julie Harper catches up with him and his new venture, Studio Wyatt . . .

UK - Wyatt Enever, photographer, projection specialist and one-time managing director of DHA Lighting Ltd, has since spent the last nine months developing Studio Wyatt. In doing so he is returning to his roots as a photographer and exercising over 30 years of accumulated experience in innovative and traditional projection techniques.

Based near Guildford, Studio Wyatt offers consultancy and in-house production of all formats of projection slides - from 35mm through 18cm x 18cm for Pani and E/T/C Pigi projectors, to the 240mm x 240mm required for Pani 12k projectors - using both photographic and computer graphics.

It may have come as a surprise to some that Enever decided to take this route after so many y

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UK - Lighting designer Dan Hardiman (above) is no shrinking violet when it comes to embracing new technology. An Engineering graduate, he has been pushing at the boundaries of the possible from the moment he joined the touring fraternity.

For his most recent endeavour with UB40, he presented himself with one of his biggest challenges yet; how to run an arena-sized light show complete with followspots, and call a four -camera video team, single-handed? The solution he's evolved will be more than a useful tool; to many it will be a salvation.

"I told the band what I had in mind, and that it might not work, so we had a touring video director on standby, but six weeks in it's working fine." It's no trick: Hardiman has harnessed technology to his needs, but in solving one problem he has also addressed another: "It's founded on an idea I've had for a long time. On my

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Pulsar had recently appointed Jerry Colmenero as their dedicated sales manager for the Americas, and LDI was our first opportunity to meet him. Based in Texas, he will help to develop Pulsar's business in the Americas and also offer support for the company's distributors in Canada, USA, Mexico, and South America.

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ESP Vision's pre-visualisation software has reached V2.0. It includes physically correct light-field rendering, true rigid-body simulation for moving truss and set pieces, and reflective and translucent surfaces. To celebrate this new release, ESP Vision's world-wide distributor, Zzyzk, Inc., announced that it is sponsoring a contest to find the best lighting design to a song.

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New from Lee Filters were holders and louvres in silver or black for MR16 fixtures. The screw-on holder fits directly on to the lamp and can hold any two accessories (colour, diffusion, or louver). The honeycomb louvres come in 45° and 60° versions.

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Swisson showed the 12-channel, rack-mountable, sinewave dimmer 12 x 2.5kW and its high-speed five-to-one DMX merger, as well the single-channel, DMX-addressable/ manual 2.4kW dimmer.

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Barco showed OLite 510, the company's indoor/outdoor SMD LED display, with 5,000 NIT light output, 10mm pixel pitch, 15-bit processing, IP65 rating, and full TUV approval, as well as the LC-42 and LC-47 high-definition LCD displays. Also shown were MiPIX Creativity Packs, for creating display solutions without time-consuming and expensive custom manufacturing.

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SGM, exhibiting on the Techni-Lux stand, showed a number of products, including Synthesis - the first of a new generation of moving-head fixtures, with two types of interchangeable 70W lamps, automatic hot restrike, colour-mixing, and what the company calls an "unbeatably precise" linear dimmer. Also new were the Palco 3 colour-changing LED projector for indoor and outdoor applications; the Palco 3 Mobile, which comes with pan and tilt; and the Ribalta colour-changing projector with 90 Luxeon LEDs, which allows you to cover large areas.

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Philips introduced a new multi-functional solution for Ceramic ST fixtures. By simply changing the bulb, Ceramic ST fixtures can now create daylight with the MSR 250 HR bulb or create cool and cost-effective light with the Ceramic ST 250 HR lamp. The company introduced a new 1,200W single-ended MSR Gold for SSTV applications. The new bulb, a compact single-ended lamp with a very short arc, creates up to 30% higher brightness compared to current available light sources, the company says.

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France - ETC distributor ATF (Avab Transtechnik France) will be showing a range of ETC products on its stand at the forthcoming SIEL exhibition in Paris (12-15 February), including the newly launched ETC Source Four EDLT option, which is being seen in France for the first time. A Source Four equipped with the EDLT (Enhanced Definition Lens Tube) option competes with the optical power of a condenser-optics system but comes at a more affordable price. For crisper projections with greater acuity and higher contrast, only one thing can outperform the Source Four - the Source Four with the new EDLT.

Also debuting in the Source Four family are three new field angles, giving "a Source Four for every lighting throw distance", say the company. ETC's new Source Four 14° gives a powerful alternative for front-of-house positions where a 10° field would be too small or 19° too b

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Sharing space with Strong was Italian manufacturer LDR, whose complementary products Strong distributes in the US: new for LDI was the Canto 575 medium throw discharge followspot. Currently in the process of gaining UL approval, the Canto 575 also now features reference marking on the mechanical dimmer control.

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A.C.T Lighting had a number of new products, plus upgrades to existing lines. The ELC range of DMX-512 tools has recently come under A.C.T's umbrella. For MA Lighting and Zero 88, see below.

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Literally pedalling his technology, Doug Fleenor, of Doug Fleenor Design could be seen on an exercise bike. DFD created a DMXersizer for the modification of each aspect of a DMX-512 signal - and it was pedal-powered. It showed how DFD's new Gizmo DMX512 tester handled problems with DMX512 signals.

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Super Vision's new SaVi SHO (Super High Output) LED flood was prominently displayed. This architectural 90W RGB LED floodlight, Super Vision says, is twice as bright as its competitors, has a sealed cast-aluminum housing, and is DMX-512-controlled.

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Selecon showed the Rama range of 6" and 7" 750/1,000W Fresnels and PCs and two followspots - the Rua 9-16° unit and the Tahi 18-24° model.

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Wireless Solution showed the W-DMX, which offers wireless transmission of DMX512. It is a compact, plug-and-play system, which the manufacturer says is free from interference from other wireless devices in the 2.45GHz band, such as W-LAN. It uses adaptive FHSS (Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum) and TDMA (Time Division Multiple Access) technologies.
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  2. Gran Casino, Aranjuez
  3. Ocean Optics
  4. High End Systems
  5. MA Lighting
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