As production creativity expands, so does the range of lighting tools available for churches. Sophisticated lighting tools are becoming more affordable, as their quality-value for the dollar- continues to increase. Greg Persinger, long-time product reviewer and writer for Church Production Magazine, spent part of this past fall at- tending industry trade events, like LDI and WFX, to see the latest and most appropriate lighting fixtures for the church market. What follows is an overview of products from a wide range of foreign and domestic lighting equipment manufacturers.
STATIC FIXTURES
Altman Spectra Strip
The Spectra Strip is a six-foot LED Wash fixture featuring 12 RGBA led color Mixing cells in the color mixing version or 12 cells of warm white led light source in the white-only version. Each cell can be individually controlled via DMX as well as fitted with different filters, lenses, and diffusion using the filter slots provided. The unit can be both floor- and pipe-mounted and is designed to be an LED replacement for traditional theatrical strip lights, foot lights, and border lights.
www.altmanltg.com list price: $4,085.97
Chauvet Colorado 1-Tri Tour
The Colorado 1-Tri Tour is a color-mixing led fixture that features 14 three-watt tri-color LEDs that produce a wide range of colors while eliminating multi-colored shadows and producing a more even color from the light. The Colorado 1-Tri Tour also features five different dimming curves that allow smooth dimming without the stepping seen in other LED fixtures at low intensity levels.
www.chauvetlighting.com list price: $549.00
Coemar Reflection LEDKO LED Profile
The Coemar Reflection LEDKO LED profile fixture features a modular 120-watt multiple led light source. The product creates full spectrum led color mixing in a profile fixture package with smooth and even color, with the ability to lend a hard-focused edge. It also allows for “instant” gobos from a printer. In addition, the fixture features a four-blade framing system and multiple beam spreads like other standard ellipsoidals, as well as 16-bit electronic dimming with two selectable dimming curves.
www.coemar.com list price: $2,825.00
GLP Scenex StudIo Par Platinum LED
The GLP Scenex Studio Par Platinum is a classic par fixture updated with the efficiency of LED. With 20 tri-color RGB LEDs, the fixture produces a bright, even beam of light that makes these fixtures ideal for lighting set pieces or being hung in a lighting rig. With Neutrik Powercon input and output connectors, daisy chaining of multiple fixtures is reportedly easy. A well-designed housing protects the connectors from damage, as well.
www.germanlightproducts.com
Robert Juliat Aledin LED Profile
The Robert Juliat Aledin LED Profile features a powerful LED source that provides high output with low power consumption. Retaining all the optical and operational features of other Robert Juliat profiles, the Aledin LED profile is perfect for use anywhere a profile fixture is required, but it is especially useful for environments with limited power supplies. The unit is available in both warm and cool white and dimming is built into the unit, allowing for easy installation.
www.robertjuliatamerica.com list price: $3,188.00
Lightronics LED Ellipsoidal
The Lightronics LED Ellipsoidal lighting fixture is a new offering, featuring a 100-watt cool white LED engine with a 100,000-hour lifespan. The fixture has a glass reflector and a standard black plastic housing or an optional white housing and comes in 50-, 36-, 26- and 19-degree beam spreads.
www.lightronics.com
Mega Systems N-E Color Punch LED
The Mega systems n-e color punch delivers smooth, saturated, vibrant color mixing from its 12 three-watt tri chip RGB LEDs. With a beam angle of 25-degrees and its ultra compact size, the unit is ideal for truss warming and lighting scenic pieces. Daisy-chain installation is also possible with the Neutrik Powercon in and out.
www.mega-lite.com list price: $349.00
Robe LEDForce PAR 18
The Robe LEDForce 18 RGBW Par cans feature new quad-color LED technology with 18 x 4IN1 RGBW LEDs. With the powerful light output of multichip quad-color LED technology there is no multicolor shadows. The product also delivers an extremely bright beam with a 25-degree beam angle from the mixing lens system. With its low-weight aluminum housing and double hanging brackets, the unit is well suited for both truss and floor mounting.
www.robe.cz list price: $1,020.00
Robert Juliat Aledin LED Profile
The Robert Juliat Aledin LED Profile features a powerful led source that provides high output with low power consumption. Retaining all the optical and operational features of other Robert Juliat profiles, the Aledin LED profile is perfect for use anywhere a profile fixture is required, but it is especially useful for environments with limited power supplies. The unit is available in both warm and cool white and dimming is built into the unit, allowing for easy installation.
www.robertjuliatamerica.com list price: $3,188.00
Seachanger HMI Profile
The SeaChanger HMI with its 24,000-lumen output and on-board color changer has the output and color changing ability for live events and installations—where a bright light is needed to cut through the existing ambient light while providing full color mixing. The Seachanger HMI is also an excellent light source for TV, where one fixture can equal the light output of multiple fixtures, saving power, hardware, and maintenance costs.
www.seachangeronline.com
Strand PL3 LED Fresnel
The Strand PL3 is an LED source stage and studio fixture delivering output similar to a 1,000- watt fresnel. With its RGBW LED engine it is capable of producing a wide range of color—as well as white light with a variable color temperature from 3,000k to 5,600k without the color shadows typically associated with led fixtures. The fixture also has a motorized variable zoom from a 15-degree spot to a 55-degree flood beam angle.
www.strandlighting.com
Wybron Cygnus MF200 LED WASH Light
The Wybron Cygnus family of LED luminaires is available in 100w & 200w color wash with RGBW in-lens color mixing and 92 CRI or variable, 2800 degrees Kelvin to 6000 K, all-white studio wash. Cygnus is ideal for theatrical and flicker-free, film and broadcast applications. The durable, highly energy-efficient, self-contained units with a 60,000-hour lifespan means no lamp, gelstring, dimmer rack costs or maintenance, translating into up-front and long-term savings for you. Custom fixture colors and optional lens diffusers are available.
www.wybron.com list price: 100W: $1600 / 200W: $2300
MOVING FIXTURES
Chauvet Legend 412 Moving Head LED WASH
The Legend 412 is an LED moving yoke wash fixture with 12 quad-color RGBW LEDs as the light source. Additionally, these LEDs are controllable in quadrants. Ultra-compact and lightweight, the movement of the fixture is very fast and produces an excellent wash, dynamic chases and pixel mapping. Dimming is on board and is flicker-free for use with HD video cameras.
www.chauvetlighting.com list price: $1,399.99
Clay Paky Sharpy Moving Head Fixture
Sharpy from Italian manufacturer, Clay Paky, is a 189-watt moving-beam discharge-based light designed to provide unusually high brightness from a small form factor. It produces a sharply defined beam free from halo or disfiguration around the edges. With 14 different colors and 17 gobos, the beam can be shaped into a wide range of effects.
www.claypaky.it/en/home/ list price: $7,525.00
Coemar Infinity M Wash
The Coemar Infinity Wash M is a CMY color mixing moving wash fixture that features a wide zoom range from eight to 42 degrees, as well as an effect zoom from six to 26 degrees. With its patent-pending beam shaping and prismatic effects, as well as its CTO color filtering and additional color wheel, the Infinity M creates a broad range of effects beyond the typical wash fixture.
www.coemar.com list price: $7,278.00
Elation – Platinum Spot 15R Pro
The Platinum Spot 15R Pro is a hybrid spot/wash moving light fixture. Using the new 300-watt platinum 15R lamp, output is comparable to other 700 and 1,200-watt fixtures at a third of the size and power consumption. The fixture has full CMY color mixing, eight rotating and 14 static gobos, an eight-color color wheel, iris, frost, zoom and focus. It also has a built in wireless DMX receiver.
www.elationlighting.com list price: $6,999.99
GLP Spot One LED Moving Head Spot Fixture
The GLP Spot One LED moving head spot features a 400-watt RGB LED light source. Unlike some other fixtures that use a white LED and add color wheels, the spot one creates color from its three-color LED system, giving the fixture an output similar to 700-watt, arc-lamped fixtures. The fixture also has two rotating gobo wheels, iris, prism, and a 9- to 32-degree zoom.
www.germanlightproducts.com
Martin Aura Compact LED Moving Head Wash
The Aura compact LED moving-head wash light features a zoom that adds Martin's unique “aura” effect to the light to create a fully functional wash fixture with an interesting “eye candy” visual effect when looking at the face of the unit. The Aura combines multicolor RGB LEDs on the face of the unit for “Eye Candy” with an RGBW LED system and an 11- to 58-degree zoom lens to create beam effects.
www.martin.com
Robe Robin 300 LED Wash
The Robin 300 automated LED Wash fixture uses 19 RGBW four-in-one multichip LEDs and a motorized 15- to 60-degree zoom to provide a homogenized light source and smooth color mixing. Lightweight and compact, the fixture is ideal for all small-to-medium applications, particularly those where space and accessibility is an issue.
The unit comes with both DMX and Ethernet connection and can be fitted with wireless DMX as on option.
www.robe.cz list price: $4,835.00?
Elektralite LED Pro Line Pancake Moving Head Fixture
Loaded with 108 Edison Rebel three-watt LEDs, including 30 red, 30 green, 30 blue and 18 white, the LED Pro Line Pancake Fixture features 540-degree pan and 270-degree tilt. PowerCon connectors offer quick interconnection. Lenses are interchangeable (8, 15, 25, 45 and 60 degrees). Includes thermal and external fuse protection.
www.elektraled.com msrp: $1,999.00
High End Trackspot Bolt
The Trackspot Bolt is a moving mirror fixture that features a white light LED engine, producing an output similar to a 250-watt MSD arc lamp but with a 25,000-hour lamp life. Additionally, it has eight fixed gobos, seven rotating gobos, a nine-color color wheel, a 15-degree beam spread, remote focus, iris, strobe, and dimming.
www.highend.com
Mega Systems Axis LED Spot
The Mega Systems Axis LED Spot is an automated lighting fixture with Mega Systems' Phlatlight 60-watt LED light source built for low energy consumption and long life. It has seven rotating and nine fixed gobos on two gobo wheels, with nine of the gobos being colored glass gobos. It includes a rotating prism, strobe, and on-board electronic dimming.
www.mega-lite.com list price: $1,399.00
Vari-Lite VL770 Spot Luminaire
The VL770 is a compact, automated, spot luminaire fixture that features a zoom range from 15 to 36 degrees, CYM color mixing based on the acclaimed series 3000 color mixing system, an eight-color color wheel, dimming, strobe, seven rotating gobos, and 10 fixed gobos. The light source is the new 700-watt MSR Gold MiniFastFit lamp that gives the unit an output greater than other 700-watt, arc-lamped fixtures.
www.vari-lite.com list price: $7,710.00
