Tim Walsh
11-17-2007, 10:38 AM
If you are not here, we miss you! It is a blast seeing so many old friends, and seeing some of the latest in laser technology, as well as super-bright LED's blasting our retinas at every turn.
The ILDA Laser Theater is a great setup. Star of the theater is the 4-watt graphics projector from LSDI, with laser manufactured by RGB Laser, Hungary, projecting through Cambridge 6215 scanners. The color balance and line quality is awesome; this setup makes some of the older shows look new!
Next star of the Laser Theater is the audience scanning system also from LSDI and RGB Laser, Hungary. It is a 1-watt projector mounted above the screen, and outfitted with Pangolin's new PASS audience scanning safety system. We could ask for more power, but when the room is dark, the effects are perfectly adequate.
In the theater today we had presentations from Alex Hennig of LOBO, Steve Heminover of Aura Technologies, and Tom Harmon of LaserNet, all under the umbrella "everything you need to know about laser shows in 90 minutes". The theater was SRO for the presentations!
The Laser Theater experienced a hiccup when some smoke alarm somewhere went off and the CC staff asked us to hold off on haze for an hour or more. Bummer! They have known for two months what we planned to do.
At 4 PM we had a meeting and quick discussion of the Code of Business Practice which is under development, and where we will hold next year's meeting - members are equally divided between taking a cruise ship out of Miami, or going to Hamburg, Germany.
Out on the show floor, I have not spent enough time yet, but we have booths featuring lasers from LaserNet, Omnisistem, Coherent, LOBO, Image Engineering, Pyrotek, Blisslight, Mountain Megabytes, Laser Design Productions, and Chauvet, maybe more I have not seen yet.
Special mention must be made of the ILDA booth - booth sponsor Lightwave International has created a veritable "pile of lasers" - a 10 foot+ tall stack of the Arctos solid state laser products, shooting out laser beams in all directions!
Today I hope to take pictures and post them, maybe give some reviews of the different booths. Stay tuned!
The ILDA Laser Theater is a great setup. Star of the theater is the 4-watt graphics projector from LSDI, with laser manufactured by RGB Laser, Hungary, projecting through Cambridge 6215 scanners. The color balance and line quality is awesome; this setup makes some of the older shows look new!
Next star of the Laser Theater is the audience scanning system also from LSDI and RGB Laser, Hungary. It is a 1-watt projector mounted above the screen, and outfitted with Pangolin's new PASS audience scanning safety system. We could ask for more power, but when the room is dark, the effects are perfectly adequate.
In the theater today we had presentations from Alex Hennig of LOBO, Steve Heminover of Aura Technologies, and Tom Harmon of LaserNet, all under the umbrella "everything you need to know about laser shows in 90 minutes". The theater was SRO for the presentations!
The Laser Theater experienced a hiccup when some smoke alarm somewhere went off and the CC staff asked us to hold off on haze for an hour or more. Bummer! They have known for two months what we planned to do.
At 4 PM we had a meeting and quick discussion of the Code of Business Practice which is under development, and where we will hold next year's meeting - members are equally divided between taking a cruise ship out of Miami, or going to Hamburg, Germany.
Out on the show floor, I have not spent enough time yet, but we have booths featuring lasers from LaserNet, Omnisistem, Coherent, LOBO, Image Engineering, Pyrotek, Blisslight, Mountain Megabytes, Laser Design Productions, and Chauvet, maybe more I have not seen yet.
Special mention must be made of the ILDA booth - booth sponsor Lightwave International has created a veritable "pile of lasers" - a 10 foot+ tall stack of the Arctos solid state laser products, shooting out laser beams in all directions!
Today I hope to take pictures and post them, maybe give some reviews of the different booths. Stay tuned!