Lighting Instruments
Floods and Spotlights
--Floods: no lens
--Spots: have lenses
Floodlights:
Generally based on a reflector and a lamp
--Olivette- simple reflector, no lens
--Striplights- spherical reflector, no lens
--Farcycs- cylindrical/parabolic hybred reflector
--Beam Projector- parabolic reflector, no lens
--PAR Can- parabolic reflector, minimal lensing
--Molefay
--Scoop- ellipsoidal reflector, no lens
Spotlights:
Generally based on a reflector, lamp, and LENS
--Limelights and early arc spots:
--PC lens and NO reflector
PC Spotlight- Combination of spherical reflector and PC lens
--Fresnel spot- Spherical reflector and fresnel lens
--ERS- Ellipspsoidal reflector and PC lenses
Ellipsoidal Reflector Spotlight-
aka ERS, leko, klieglight, profile spot
PC lens system (or step lens) with ellipsoidal reflector
Some arc spotlights: Parabolic Reflector and PC lenses.
Moving Lights:
aka Intelligent lights, Wiggle Lights
--Moving Mirror type:
--Moving body type:
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