COPENHAGEN – The Royal Danish Opera House marked its 10th season anniversary with an exterior lighting design by Royal Danish Theatre LD and technical manager Tommy Larsen. He chose 30 P-5 wash lights to illuminate The Royal Danish Opera House for each opening night of a new show.
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Blackmagic Design’s Blackmagic Camera 1.9.9 is a major software update with multiple new features for the Blackmagic URSA digital film camera, developed with input from cinematographers. New features include 80 fps 4K recording, new 3:1 compressed RAW, frame guides, slow-mo playback, CFast formatting, scrolling menus and more. Blackmagic Camera 1.9.9 can be downloaded now from the Blackmagic Design web site. Company CEO Grant Petty, pictured here, explains the details on the update in a company video.
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WARSAW, Poland — For the Professional Windsurfers Association’s PWA Indoor Windsurfing World Cup, held at Warsaw’s National Stadium Sept. 5-7, LDs Adam Tyszka and Sebastian Pachciarek used dozens of SGM SixPack pixel arrays in two separate groupings. The IP65 rating for the RGBA LED fixtures helped alleviate water ingress concerns for the fixtures placed closest to the pool.
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UFA, Russia – For Russia’s Milk Music Festival, Kilowatt Rentals and Staging provided festival LD Yan Prokofyev with an ETC Cobalt 20 desk to control the moving lights, LED luminaires, audience blinders and strobe lights used to highlight the folk singing, dancing and musical groups performing on the open-air stage structure during the event.
Read More »PR Lighting’s XLED 3019 (PR-8127), which begins shipping this month, is a hybrid Beam projector that can also be used to create a saturated wash.
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LONDON – An Australian dance-theatre production, Intimacy, by Michelle Ryan and Torque Show, recently traversed the globe to take up residence at the Southbank Centre in London. Part of the ‘Unlimited’ disability arts festival, the piece was lit with eight Philips Selecon LED PLprofile1 luminaires, chosen for their crucial colorizing flexibility by lighting designer John Ford. Ford, of lighting design consultancy Relume, specified the Selecon luminaires when it came to lighting the piece during its previous run at the Malthouse Theatre in Melbourne.
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NASHVILLE, TN – The 45th Annual Dove Awards, recently held in Allen Arena on the campus of Lipscomb University, utilized the PixelFLEX FLEXCurve LED tile as the backbone to all video production. With 46 categories, the award ceremony was hosted by Bart Millard of MercyMe and Lecrae. There were a number of performers from the vast family of christian and gospel music genre including the Newsboys, Natalie Grant, Hezekiah Walker, King and Country, Erica Campbell, Pat Boone, Mercy Me and Mandisa among many others.
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