About the new ExCel exhibition centre, Pio Nahum, Clay Paky commercial and marketing manager, says, "The location is beautiful and modern, suitable to our needs, as exhibitors. In addition for the first time we were able to organise the Knight of Illumination Awards in the same location of the show, with the many benefits in terms of logistics, for us, and in terms of accessibility for the attendees. Our booth, inside the Ambersphere village, has been very popular, thanks in particular to our new B-EYE fixture."
This year Clay Paky marked its presence at PLASA with some highly innovative products:
Aleda B-Eye offers an impressive 6° to 70° zoom. The beam however can be closed further down to as little as 4°, switching the light from wash diffusion into a parallel beam. B-Eye thus becomes a beam-light for aerial effects. Additionally, the front lens can be rotated and many little beams are created, that can be unfolded or closed like petals. Adding colours and dynamic patterns, B-Eye turns into an effect light, generating countless kaleidoscopic projections.
The Clay Paky A.leda B-Eye received a 2013 PLASA Award for innovation. Pio Nahum was the first to take the stage. He thanked all lighting industry professionals for continuing to recognize the quality of Clay Paky products and the company's efforts to offer innovation without compromise.
The judges said, "The B-Eye has a 'wow' factor. It's an innovative look and a modern retake on a classic effect. It's also a fully-functional and versatile luminaire."
For those applications where a simpler, yet powerful washlight is required, Clay Paky developed a new fixture named A.Lleda CC (Colour Changer), featuring R-G-B-White colour mixing. When colour changing is not required, the new Clay Paky A.Leda TW (Tuneable White) can be used, providing tuneable colour temperature through additive mixing, ranging from 2600 to 7500 K. Finally, for the simplest applications, Clay Paky has created A.Leda W (White), a moving head LED flood-light generating a fixed 7500 K white light.
Sharpy Wash 330 is an extraordinarily compact, lightweight 330 W washlight, with the luminous efficiency and optical performance of a 1000W fixture; but it requires half the power, it features one third of the weight, it is much smaller, it is as fast as the Sharpy. Despite its small size Sharpy Wash includes all functions needed by a top category washlight: CMY, colour wheel, CTO, 6°-48° zoom, frost, beam shaper.
Clay Paky Sharpy Wash 330 received an Honourable mention by the judges of the PLASA Awards for Innovation "to represent impressive advancements in the state-of-the-art of entertainment lighting".
The sixth Knight of Illumination Awards (KOI), held on 6tOctober at London ExCel's Platinum Suite, saw lighting and video professionals enjoy a glittering night of celebration and acknowledgement of the exceptional creative talent in their industry.
The ever popular awards are organized by the Society of Television & Lighting Design (STLD), the Association of Lighting Designers (ALD), Clay Paky and Ambersphere Solutions, and generously sponsored by Chroma-Q, Hawthorn, MA Lighting, Osram, Robert Juliat and XL Video. They provide public recognition for outstanding achievements in touring, television and theatre lighting and video design.
The sparkling ceremony was hosted by Andy Collins and saw over 300 lighting and video professionals from the worlds of TV, theatre, concert touring and events come together to celebrate the diverse range of creative talent in production des
