LightingTech News North America  |  July 2009  |  Unsubscribe

 

In this issue:

The new world of Selecon

As of the 1st April 2009 Selecon became part of the Philips Entertainment Group within the Philips Professional Luminaires business.

"Selecon's highly-acclaimed luminaires for the theatrical and architectural markets will further strengthen the breadth of solutions Philips can offer to important professional customers such as performing arts centres, churches, convention centres and hotels," said Rudy Provoost, Chief Executive of Philips' Lighting sector.

The acquisition of Selecon by Philips brings with it the additional resources of the Strand product range, sales force, dealer and manufacturers' rep networks. This powerful combination of dimming/control and the wide range of Selecon's market-leading luminaires provides our industry with a full stage lighting solution supplier.

As part of our ongoing introduction to Philips we are pleased to announce that all company personnel email addresses which ended in either @seleconlight.com or @strandlighting.com will now follow the Philips company line of FirstName.LastName@philips.com. Please update your address books.

Advanced solutions with minimal environmental cost

Philips seek to facilitate new solutions for change to drive responsible energy practices and have long focused on the energy efficiency of their products and production processes.

These energy and environmental impact concerns have also been at the forefront of Selecon's new and continuous product improvement development and we strive to bring innovative and relevant solutions to our theatre lighting industry.

The comprehensive Selecon range of fixtures

For theatre/entertainment and specialised display lighting

Designed for leading performance, superb beam quality and unrivalled ease of operation, Selecon fixtures are the result of a commitment to excellence driven by the demands of leading lighting designers, specifiers and operators around the world.

Selecon proudly maintains the highest rate of new product introductions in our industry which, together with ongoing product improvement policy for the current extensive fixture lines draw on our core principles of precision, performance, simplicity and safety.

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Scott Church

Selecon Product Manager

Scott has been the Selecon 'face' in North America for the past several years, doing a stellar job of building Selecon's business and reputation and he will continue to do so as the Selecon Product Manager for Strand Selecon Lighting.

Later this month Scott (pictured, left, with Selecon General Manager Jeremy Collins) will be making his way to the Interlochen Centre for the Arts campus in northwestern Michigan, to join 2,500 students who will attend the celebrated Summer Arts Camp program ... Read more

 

Focus on the HUI Cyc, Flood & Groundrow range

Award-winning 200W-1000W cyc/flood range for cyc and back cloths to 20ft high and general area illumination

"The design of the Hui Cyc is well thought-through and addresses many of our issues with cyc light strips (such as on-site configuration of rigid, low-profile ground rows, safety glass screens, durable construction, configurable connector panels, and more)." Judge's comment, Eddy Award for 2005 Lighting Product of the Year

"The Floods worked a treat and I was very impressed with every aspect of the unit - easy lamp access, color frame access, lack of unwanted light spill, even coverage, intensity. I love to have the intensity of brightness/color and even distribution at my disposal. Even deep colors seemed to fill the cyc from top to bottom - most impressive. I shall certainly be specifying these units in the future." Mark Dymock, Lighting Designer

Since its introduction the Hui Cyc and Flood range have become a popular choice for lighting cycs and backcloths around the continent ... Read more

 

The Selecon website - working 24/7 for you!

Each and every one of Selecon's products is covered in depth with an overview, features, specifications and downloads available to you at any hour of any day, and it's also where you can find one of the comprehensive stage lighting resources available to our industry:

  • ·         Switched On - Selecon has been part of creative stage lighting in schools for over thirty years and over time we have developed an extensive 'library' of resource material. Thanks to the world-wide web this is now easily accessible to everyone!
  • ·         Lighting the World - here you will find a few examples and a link to a comprehensive Selecon project listing.
  • ·         Knowledge Bank - learn more about stage lighting, the properties of light, how to light a cyc, colour filters, lamps and much, much more.
  • ·         Getting Started - from portable workshops to the small or school theatre - here you'll find typical stage lighting equipment kits to suit various types of venues.
  • ·         Stage Lighting for All - Selecon fixtures can be safely and legally used by all - students, the inexperienced and professional alike, so everyone can contribute and enjoy stage lighting.
  • ·         Technical Support - more interesting product-related support material such as DIY plastic image projections with the Pacific, appliance testing points, high-res product photo downloads and more.
  • ·         Safety and Care - find out more about the simple, common-sense features we incorporate into our products to keep you safe.
  • ·         Lighting for Worship - helping to explain lighting for impact and illumination, and for the technical requirements of video and broadcast imagery.

Click on "North American EN" on the top right hand side of the homepage and the site will remember your language preference automatically.

PaletteOS 10.6.1

from Strand Lighting

Strand Lighting has released PaletteOS 10.6.1, available both on newly purchased consoles and on the website for upgrading current Palette, Palette VL and LightPalette desks. Many new options and features have been added to this highly anticipated software release.

A new Console Personality Wizard launches immediately after upgrading to aid in choosing the right console personality for you. Pick from a list of options that will present channel colors the way you like them, either traditional LightPalette colors or the popular 500 series colors. Also select either US English or EU English. It's your console, set it up for you.

There are too many upgrades and enhancements to the PaletteOS software to list here - go to www.strandlighting.com and download the new PaletteOS 10.6.1 today to see all of the improvements first hand. Remember to sign up to be automatically emailed when new software comes out!

Rick Fisher wins a Tony Award for Billy Elliot

Nominated for 15 Tony Awards, Billy Elliot The Musical scooped up ten of them including Best Lighting Design of a Musical for renowned lighting designer, Rick Fisher.

 

Rick Fisher (left) with Scott Church, Selecon Product Manager and Trent Suidgeest (right, a lighting design student from the Western Australian Academy for Performing Arts) outside the Imperial Theatre in New York.

Selecon's Pacific 45°-75° Zoomspot fitted with an MSR arc light source and dowser dimming accessory forms part of Rick's design, a simple 'single source' tool which delivers the clarity and incisiveness of an ellipsoidal with a beam wider than a Fresnel or PC. Rick also uses Aureol BeamSpots from Selecon's display range and at times these or the Pacific 45°-75° Zoomspots provide the only lighting on stage.

Billy Elliot was originally programmed in the West End using Strand lighting desks. When the show transferred to Australia, Rick Fisher and his programmer, Vic Smerdon, chose to keep the show on the 500 series because of its features and reliability. Last year the show transferred to the Imperial Theater on Broadway and again, the comfort and stability of the consoles came through and now the show with over 150 automated luminaires is running on 2 Strand desks - one as the main desk and one as the back-up.

Vari-lite also figured prominently in the show rig according to Rick, "The last show I designed was Jerry Springer: The Opera, which had an unpardonably loud lighting rig and even though it was a completely noisy show, I was aware of this white noise during the quiet moments. We were a few months too soon for the lights we love using - the VL3000 and 2000 range - that have since come out with quieter versions."

Those quieter versions have found their way onto the Billy Elliot rig with 10 VL3500Q Spots and eight VL3000Q Washes that Fisher says are the backbone of the show. "They're great units and I love 'em," he admits. "They're bright, they're flexible, and have good color. Their tungsten correction is pretty good and I'm interested in a lot of tungsten-looking light to achieve the gritty look of the show."

For further information on the content of this LightingTech News or on any of Selecon's products, please contact your Selecon market manager: www.seleconlight.com/company

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