Jon T Posted January 8, 2004 Share Posted January 8, 2004 Hey, just herd bout the new mac 550. same body shell as the 2000 but not as feautres. Wot are your views on it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gareth Posted January 8, 2004 Share Posted January 8, 2004 You've only just heard about it? Where have you been for the last few months? ;) It's not exactly the same shell as the Mac2k - the 550 is physically smaller. It's a pretty good unit, now that the software glitches are sorted. It's nice and pokey, and it has some really nice animation effects. But if you put too much in the beam at once (e.g. a colour, a gobo and the animation wheel) it does tend to suck the light out of the beam. And it allows 16-bit control of almost every parameter on the fixture, not just pan and tilt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter Posted January 8, 2004 Share Posted January 8, 2004 same body shell as the 2000 but not as feautresThats not correct. Its more like a shrunk down Mac2000 performance. Has two fixed colour wheels, two rotating gobo wheels, gobo animation wheel, prism, iris and remote focus. They're pretty bright, but have a few bugs at the moment. I expect these will be resolved fairly quickly though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gilly Posted January 9, 2004 Share Posted January 9, 2004 They've also got an even more modular design than the 2000 so they're really easy to maintain. No fiddly ribbon cables etc!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stu Posted January 9, 2004 Share Posted January 9, 2004 They certainly do look good - personally I think the 12/24 (or there abouts) Zoom and the Animation Wheels are the best features on them! Can't wait to have a play with them... Stu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Posted January 9, 2004 Share Posted January 9, 2004 I presume they only have one bulb unlike the 2000? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter Posted January 9, 2004 Share Posted January 9, 2004 I presume they only have one bulb unlike the 2000?What on earth do you mean Matt? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Posted January 9, 2004 Share Posted January 9, 2004 well, I heard, from my reliable source (has been in the past) that the 2000's had 2 bulbs in them, though I have never actually got around to checking that fact on the martin website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter Posted January 9, 2004 Share Posted January 9, 2004 You've been mightily led down the proverbial garden path there Matt. As far as I'm aware (and I've serviced a fair few 2000s) there is only one lamp. What is different is that they're the double ended lamps similar to those found in a Coda, rather than a single lampbase as with the Mac 500s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gareth Posted January 9, 2004 Share Posted January 9, 2004 well, I heard, from my reliable source (has been in the past) that the 2000's had 2 bulbs in themSomeone's been pulling your plonker ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Posted January 9, 2004 Share Posted January 9, 2004 double ended, I think that was the one, a bit of a weird one on my case then... thanks for pointed that out, at least here you can see me feeling like a right idiot... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stu Posted January 9, 2004 Share Posted January 9, 2004 I presume they only have one bulb unlike the 2000? Well it's got a single Lamp yes ;) Stu PS. Oh look, a new title Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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