by Craig Rutherford
Beam lights, as a category we are all familiar with, have undergone radical evolution over their last few iterations. Initial designs were limited in zoom range, typically had poor (or no) color-mixing capability, and were mainly for projecting pencil-thin beams with peaky brightness profiles over vast distances. Defaulting to the oft-used “fingers of God” unadorned multi-beam look now seeming, if not passé, then at least lacking in imagination, makers of lights have imagined up new tricks for designer’s bags. In improving their optics, adding features like better zooms and prisms, they continue to shorten the gap between traditional large-format hard-edged fixtures and the newer class of beam luminaire. One such fixture, from one such company, Vari-Lite, is the VL10 BeamWash, which we are looking at today.
Read the full article at: http://plsn.com/articles/road-tests/vari-lite-vl10-beamwash/
