[SML] The future of luminaires

[Bryan Manternach]

On 9/4/15 3:23 PM, e-mail frank.wood95 via Stagecraft wrote:
> I most devoutly hope and pray that you are wrong. If you are right,
> where does that leave the art and craft of the LD?
The principles of lighting design will never change.  The 
insturmentation is constant change.  If anything, these new tools of 
visual projection will eventually allow even more precice and more 
demanding lighting designs to be achieved with less hardware, and less 
labor, while simultaneously causing an explosion in creativity.

-Bryan

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> On 4 September 2015 at 20:52, Kim Hartshorn via Stagecraft
> <stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:
>> I believe that within 10 years the stage luminaire of choice will be a video
>> projector...it already seems to be the case for opening ceremonies.   In
>> addition to images, projectors can do patterns, infinite color,
>> customizeable cuts and edges, zooms and fades, do not really need to be
>> focused at the truss...can move with the performer either mechanically or
>> through a moving image and the images themselves can be mapped.  The prices
>> for video projector technology has been dropping exponentially.  I really
>> think the LED analog of an ERS is only going to be a short-lived chapter.
>> The media server will replace the light desk and dimmer sooner than we may
>> anticipate.
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>> Kim Hartshorn
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