Sydney production company 32Hundred Lighting has always been a big fan of Clay Paky equipment owning Alpha 1500 HPEs, Alpha 575 HPEs, Alpha 575 washes, Alpha 1200 HPE, Alpha 1200 washes, Stage Zooms and even some perfectly functioning Goldenscans.
Now they have expanded their Clay Paky family with the purchase of ten A.LEDA WASH K20 which offers a valid alternative to discharge lamp washlights, adding all the benefits of LED technology: low energy consumption, long light source life, small size, light weight and robustness.
“They’re great, really cool and well, basically …. they’re the best,” declared Iain Reed, managing director of 32Hundred Lighting. “We use them instead of traditional wash fixtures as they are a lot better and the colour rendering is really nice. They are also extremely bright.”
A.Leda Wash K.20 is fitted with multicolor RGBW LEDs that produce a full range of vivid colours as well as excellent shades of white. It is also equipped with a motorised and fully controllable 14°-70° zoom.
“We use them as the wash light we have been needing for ages,” concurred Martin Bevz, lighting designer at 32Hundred. “It’s a relief not to have to worry about discharge lamps and zooms not working. In fact it’s very refreshing. It’s a good, solid fixture that matches our Clay Paky Alpha 1500 profiles. The zoom is great as is the pixel mapping.’
The guys at 32Hundred have developed their own in-house Catalyst profile for their A.Leda Wash K.20s so that they can do ArtNet merging and run content through them from a media server.
“That was a big thing for us as really cutting edge technology is what we try to focus on,” added Martin. “The pixel mapping and macros are great for a bit of eye candy. Not only can they be a major lighting instrument in a room but also part of the décor as they add a designer element as well.
In fact each colour of each LED may be controlled separately: this unique feature not only allows you to create an endless range of colour variations, but also to use each LED of the array as a pixel in order to draw all kinds of graphic images that change dynamically both in shape and colour.
Photo of Corroboree Sydney by Daniel Boud courtesy of Destination NSW
