By Nook Schoenfeld
The entertainment technology industry has saturated itself in top-end, high output, large scale, profiles the last few years. Every time High End Systems pushed the boundaries of lumens output in a profile, their competitors stormed back months later with their competitive model. As ETC has a habit of doing, they viewed their entire range to search for a new offering to the lighting community that can fill a niche. In this case, less is more. Less size, less weight, and most importantly—less cost, come to mind as this fixture still manages to contain all the bells and whistles of their high output fixtures. The Lonestar is designed to be the workhorse for the theatre, House of Worship, cruise ship, and medium-sized markets.
Face it, the majority of shows need not require a 30-50,000 lumen output light. Those fixtures are great, but they are physically large, way brighter than the other lighting options on a typical sized stage. Yet LDs demand all the attributes they can get out of one light. They don’t want to sacrifice any bells and whistles just to take up a smaller stage footprint—and now they don’t have to. Zoom, iris, gobos, frost flags, animation wheel, colour mixing and colour wheel, variable CTO, framing shutters—check. They’re all included in one compact fixture.
Read the full review at PLSN Magazine
etcconnect.com/Lonestar
Australian Distributor: Eventec www.eventec.com.au
