"This year's LDI show was clearly the best ever for Ayrton," says Ayrton's Valère Huart-Gyors. "We found LDI visitors really intent on discovering our new fixtures and they were more than satisfied by what they saw. All our new releases were incredibly well received and the ambiance on the show floor was fantastic with enthusiastic, smiling people all around the booth."
Ayrton introduced six new fixtures at the show, which were shown to full advantage in a new light show designed specifically for the LDI booth by lighting designer, Stéphane Migné:
MagicDot-R is the first professional moving head LED luminaire with a single optical collimator.
CosmoPix-R is an entirely new luminaire based on the concept of the PAR36 double-rotation spheres that date back to the early '80s.
VersaPix-RS puts Ayrton's new 94mm diameter optics in combination with a 4mm2 40W RGBW multichip to produce a fan of five 3.5° beams (the narrowest in Ayrton's portfolio) with a record-breaking central beam intensity of 200 candela per lumen.
LDI also marked the US premiere of Ayrton's DreamPanel-Shift and DreamPanel -Twin, two new moving head fixtures developed from the inspiration behind Ayrton's original DreamPanel Series.
Ayrton's DreamPanelHD-Box control system has been specially developed to drive DreamPanel video panels via a proprietary HDMI protocol.
Finally, Ayrton's WildSun-K25 was shown for the first time in the US at the show. Designed as a replacement for conventional 4000W HMI Fresnel fixtures, yet consuming only 2600W of power, WildSun-K25 was developed in collaboration with cinematographers and operators specialized in video production for major sporting events.
"Everybody enjoyed the light show and the video footage of it is already proving a big success on Vimeo," says Huart-Gyors. "We are extremely happy that Ayrton's innovative and creative new fixtures have excited and attracted so many lighting designers, production and rental companies. It is this energy and excitement which inspires us."
Morpheus Lights, the exclusive US distributor for Ayrton products, executed the 270-fixture booth design with the assistance of Ayrton's product and application manager, Vincent Billard.
"The design community response was immediate and enthusiastic. Ayrton continues to innovate and deliver exciting new tools for visual artists," says Mark Fetto, Morpheus' chief operating officer.
(Jim Evans)
