Previewed at last month’s LDI show (see full report in the December issue of L&SI), these instruments are highly flexible, covering all lighting applications in the power spectrum (up to 2k) - within a single unit! With the light output reduced, the low power/low noise factor makes it ideal for operating in television studios. At the top of its power rating FLEX will be at home in any arena or stadium concert rig, and actually runs brighter than Coemar’s NAT 4k fixture.
The brainchild of Bruno Dedoro and Fausto Orsatti, the FLEX range was designed in Coemar’s laboratories in Castelgoffredo, Italy. Three new patents have been applied for in developing the series, which boasts more features than any other moving head presently on the market.
The FLEX series is packed with creative features. It contains full CMY interchangeable colour wheels, variable CTO, the largest variety of rotating gobos on the market, a library of effects (clouds, fire, sky, stare etc), prisms, a wide range of zooms, zap strobe and framing shutters. However, it is in the colour compensation system that the fixture will demonstrate that it’s hardly a ‘me too’ scanner, say Coemar; their ‘Best Color’ system (patent pending) is an adjustable control which minimizes the difference in lumens between the white and coloured beam, while maintaining constant output throughout.
Another important feature is that the internal barndoors on the iWash FLEX enable real shapes to be created from a washlight (patent pending). Finally, there is the adjustable power which Coemar have provided between 1200W and 2k - guaranteeing that this articulated lighting is suitable for multi-task requirements (patent pending). Attention has also been paid to fan noise reduction - relative to the power required - and thus these units will run silently in venues with low ambient noise, such as television studios.
(Ruth Rossington)
