Photos of LDI laser booths and the ILDA Laser Theater

Photos of LDI laser booths and the ILDA Laser Theater
by Tim Walsh, ILDA President

This is an album of photos from the Lighting Dimensions International trade show, held in Orlando November 16-18 2007. Photos and captions are from ILDA President Tim Walsh, and they express his personal views. In addition, we have these other LDI report pages:

LDI LASER BOOTHS
		AquaLaser The Water Screen from Aqua Laser - you can just see the bottom of a shape (defined by the absence of water) starting to come down from the top of the screen.
		BlissLight The BlissLight booth, unfortunately for them surrounded by some of the brightest LED screens I have ever seen.
		Closeup of the BlissLight on the wall of the ILDA Laser Theater.
		Chauvet In the elegant Chauvet booth (complete with live pianist and bar), I found this laser product "Scorpion GrafX", sitting all by itself doing nothing.
		Coherent Lasers The Coherent booth showing its new solid state OPS lasers. I was told by those who have seen that these beams are superb quality and divergence.
		Closeup of the Coherent OPS lasers, hitting their little glowing beamstops.
		Image Engineering Image Engineering with their Arctos 10W, quietly awaiting its day in the dark.
		LaserDance (Mountain Megabytes) The LazrBotz and BounzBots booth by Mark Jacoby of LaserDance. These were DMX controlled laser bounce mirrors, with 200mw green lasers installed.
		Laser Production Network (LaserNet) LaserNet's booth, a strong laser show from afar.
		Lightwave International George Dodworth and his "pile o' lasers" in the ILDA booth. [Lightwave was the ILDA Booth sponsor and also the Gold Sponsor for the ILDA Laser Theater. Owing to setup requirements, Lightwave's lasers were not added to the theater until the last day, so we allowed them to show much more equipment in the ILDA Booth than we would normally permit.]
		LOBO Alex Hennig and the LOBO booth, no lasers but a very nice display, and Lothar Bopp was on hand as well.
		OmniSistem My favorite booth - OmniSistem. More 5mW laser dancing in one small space than you can imagine. Wow!

ILDA LASER THEATER
		ILDA Test Pattern Test pattern from the audience scanning projector on to the back wall of the ILDA Laser Theater. You can see the slight fall-off in brightness as the image moves into the audience space, in order to facilitate safe audience scanning. Greg Makhov and Bill Benner were measuring the beam divergence and power from the audience.
		Sidewinder show An image from my show Sidewinder, programmed on the Lasergraph DSP, recorded onto ADAT HD24 via the Showlink Transcoder by Raven Systems, dubbed to an ADAT tape, mailed across country, and then recorded into a Pangolin system for playback at the ILDA Laser Theater. Not bad!
		Palenque 07 show Psychedelic image from my show Palenque 07. The graphics projector by Greg Makhov and LSDI in the ILDA Laser Theater was superb!
		Palenque 07 ending from Laser Spectacles.
		Owww! My favorite image captured from the Safety Seminar by Greg Makhov and Bill Benner. Bill was sweeping a laser pointer around, and caught this poor girl in the eye!
		Wall of lasers On the last day, Lightwave set up seven more lasers along the far wall of the ILDA Laser Theater. These are them! The six side lasers are 2W Arctos, the center one was 23W? 34W? Do we even care anymore? You can tell my hands were shakin' with excitement!