Favourite Profile Lantern

[Loz]

Just wanted to find out what everyone prefers to use on stage...

If other, please state what...

 

Thanks,

Lawrie

Luminaires Theatrical Company

[J Pearce]

I like ETC source 4s.

 

Very good lantern, and reasonably cheap to hire.

 

Selecon pacifics are far superior, but cost too much extra to make it worth it for the productions I do

[dbuckley]

Being in NZ, Selecon kit is rather popular here, so its Pacifics all the way ;)

[gareth]

CCT Freedoms, Selecon Pacifics and Altman Shakespeares are as common, if not more so, than the Juliat profiles that you've listed in the poll - what about adding options for those units rather than lumping them all together into "other"?

[James]

CCT Shilouettes, Patt 264s and Patt 23s beccause they are all I have available.

 

James

[P. Funk]

I think the results speak for themselves!

[Modge]

CCT Shilouettes, Patt 264s and Patt 23s beccause they are all I have available.

 

Replace patt 264's with T-spots (most of which lack 1 or more lens's and have fubar'd reflecters) and you have BUGS. The Sil's are knew to them but still pretty old and the patt 23's are mostly the old pre shuttered version.

 

We hire some pacific's one time and they were a revolution (all be it I wasn't on that show - t'was an opera *shudders*)

[scarr]

Just got 4 Selecon Pacifics. Very impressed with them, especially being able to print our own colour gobos.

[Tomo]

Although optically the SL isn't far off a Source4, it's a complete arse to change the lamp.

 

ETC got almost everything right in the Source4 - although the older versions with only one lens tube retainer are a little annoying, the newer ones with two are great.

 

One thing to remember is that there is no single fixture that does everything - remember 'horses for courses' - if a show wants custom colour gobos, a Pacific it is.

[GridGirl]

I love the Pacific, with Shakespeares and Source 4s close behind. SLs I've found not great for gobos where you need four clean edges (like window or bars), they tend to have two edges fuzzier than the other two no matter what you do.

[woody74]

ETC's Source Four has pretty much dominated the market in the US, and for good reason (IMHO), but the other dominant fixture is the Shakespeare, and I h a t e hate HATE their shutters! Altman shutters (on any of their standard fixtures) have never been good after they age and warp, but ETC got smart in their design and made the seperation plated held in by springs instead of screws. And the lamp cap is soooooo much easier to deal with in the S4 than a Shakespeare

 

Did I mention my vote is for Source Four?

[Jamtastic3]

Source Fours! Easy to operate, angle, focus, great optics and have a great design. I like Source 4 Juniors too but they aren't as good looking!

[andy_s]

best gobo projector I've used is easily the Robert Juliat 1k - can't remember its nomme de lux. Using a meshed cloud gobo it was possible to focus so sharp that you could see the mesh - not I realise what you actually want, but an indication of the quality of the optics and the set-up - the first being down to the design, and the second down to conscientious maintenance.

[monsieurloup]

I've replaced my old SLs (letting them rot in hell) with RVE 1kW recently - surprised me that nobody mentioned them - they are very cheap, with almost excellent optics - and sooo nice to use. I've never seen a profile with this easily accesible lamp or lens. Quite fragile though, 'twas really easy to crack the condensor lens :unsure:

[GregB]

Pacific has great out-put but for smaller venues the S4 has it for space and weight saving. You can carry two S4's in one hand easily, a pacific..? Aclaim is not a bad third option. :P