<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 5:35 AM *Hobbit* via Stagecraft <<a href="mailto:stagecraft@theatrical.net">stagecraft@theatrical.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">A vaguely related question, which I don't think I asked before ...<br>
I've found that some of the older 36-degree s4 units in particular were<br>
really hard to get focused right, like the optics were just screwed up<br>
somehow and beam edges always looked ugly no matter what I did ... and<br>
that included lamp optimization on the fly, which I got in the habit of<br>
doing routinely because I could usually get a lot more brightness out<br>
of every unit. But the older 36es, usually units *without* the 750<br>
model caps, were just constantly balky and ugly and dim by comparison.<br></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>For what it's worth, I've never liked the look from a Source Four 36 degree, for exactly what you've described. I also have no EDLT lenses, so I don't know if that would make a difference. But like you said, the edges were terrible, and trying to match fixtures was impossible.</div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature">Jon Ares<br><a href="http://www.arescreative.com" target="_blank">www.arescreative.com</a></div></div>