The Russian production company's key market is to develop and deliver integrated creative and technical solutions for events of all sizes. For Elkruff this meant it was looking for robust, fast, compact feature rich fixtures that would offer its diverse client base the most value for its investment.
"Elkruff chose to buy Clay Paky equipment because the company's mission is to stock the latest, most up to date technology," explains Slawa Gartung, Clay Paky sales manager for the region. "In particular the company wanted fast moving fixtures that would offer a wide spectrum of effects, not generally available together in other products. This made the Alpha Spot QWO 800 ST and the Sharpy Wash ideal choices. In addition both are compact, lightweight and inexpensive to maintain."
"The Alpha Spot QWO 800 ST Version is ideal for studio use (television and theatre)," continues Aleksey Bulgakov, chief technical officer of Elkruff. "We really like the fact that the optics system has undergone a special processing, which lowers the colour temperature of the output beam of light. Additionally, the fixture is equipped with optical features that place it at the very top of its class, including a super-wide zoom range from 7.6° to 55°, a uniform beam distribution at all zoom angles and a unique Stay-Sharp-Zoom feature that locks images in focus, even while zooming. All this makes the Alpha Spot QWO 800ST a hugely appealing proposition for our clients.
"I have found all Clay Paky's products to be robust and reliable. Moreover we find an overwhelming majority of professional lighting designers are using Clay Paky equipment. This makes us delighted to announce that Elkruff is practically the first in this region to buy this new equipment and that we have found it to be of so much better quality."
"In addition to the Alpha Spot QWO 800 ST Elkruff invested in the Sharpy Wash 330- an extraordinarily compact, lightweight 330W washlight which offers the luminous efficiency, graphic and optical performance of a 1000W fixture," adds Slawa Gartung. "The fixture is silent and very fast. Fitted with a complete CMY colour system, special colours, 6.5°-48° zoom, mechanical dimmer, beam shaping filter and motorized top-hat, it's an energy efficient fixture that facilitates considerable savings when it comes to running and power consumption costs."
So far the fixtures have been out on tour with Russian singer Zemfira and on various federal and corporate events including American multinational sales company Amway.
(Jim Evans)
