“I'll tell you, this fixture, for the size and weight that it is, absolutely kills it…, and we are so excited to back it,” says Kyle LeForge. He’s the audio and lighting engineer at Coastal Community Church in Parkland, Florida, and he’s talking about ADJ’s Focus Flex L7 Moving Head Luminaires. LeForge agreed to test drive the fixtures in the church’s next-gen worship space as part of the Church Production Road Test User Experience.
The ADJ Focus Flex L7 moving light has received the Church Production Road Tested Certification.
“We used it on our stage deck just beneath our LED wall and it allowed us to get a really nice backwash. We were also able to use it in our front lighting bar. It has a really cool color feature that adds a lime color into the color spectrum, which allows for us to get a greater color depth,” he explains.
"...clear, crisp, and powerful, but I was never once distracted by the light.” - Kyle LeForge, Coastal Community Church, Parkland, FL
Powered by an array of seven 40-watt 4-in-1 RGBL color mixing LEDs, each of which can be controlled independently, the Focus Flex L7 offers a motorized zoom function providing the versatility of a variable beam angle of between 6 and 55 degrees.
“This fixture from zero to a hundred is completely smooth in how it dims, as well as how the colors function in and out from each other,” LeForge adds. “I want it to be able to put out the light that's needed, but not just be a blinding light. What I was really impressed by was actually the lens that they put within this fixture. It's able to make it clear, crisp, and powerful, but I was never once distracted by the light.”
With a variety of DMX mode options appropriate to different applications, the Focus Flex L7 offers virtual CMY color mixing and virtual foreground and background color wheel control - as well as a choice of seven different DMX modes ranging from 16 to 50 channels.
“It actually allows for me to use that virtual CMY wheel as I'm going through and programming,” LeForge enthuses. “And it does the same type of wheel turn that I would get out of my other CMY fixtures that are being used at the same time. Also, they actually allow you to select LED refresh rates for your camera. So that means anything from 900 Hz up to 25,000 Hz, it actually allows for you to move that spectrum, so that if you're getting any sort of shuttering that's happening from the light, you can actually adjust it out of the range so that you won't have those problems on broadcast video --- which is such a big deal when it comes to making sure your video looks good.”
LeForge concludes that as a person who stewards money for the church, he likes that he could buy four of these now and then a couple years later buy four more and the colors will matchmaking the buying process economical. Plus it’s CE (and ETL) certified, which is important for building code and insurance purposes.
To see the ADJ Focus Flex L7 in action at Coastal Community Church and hear more of LeForge’s analysis, watch this video!
