LDI Preview: Clay Paky Introduces the Projectors

	Clay Paky's Stormy strobe with optional barndoors

Clay Paky will launch the US debut of three new products at LDI2014, November 21 - 23 in Las Vegas.

Mythos is an advanced form of hybrid light: first of all, it is an excellent 470W-lamp spotlight, which produces an outstanding large light beam, featuring a zoom that ranges from 4- to 50-degrees (1:12 ratio). The light beam is sharp, with perfectly defined edges, from the first millimeters after the front lens right along its entire length. The zoom is optimized for focusing, which is separate from that of the fixed and rotating gobos. Its movements are smooth, fast, and very quiet. Mythos also features a completely redesigned indexed visual effect disc, which may be superimposed on all the gobos (six rotating and 18 fixed gobos), both in and out of focus.

But Mythos is also an extraordinary beam light, allowing the user to switch to a minimum fixed beam angle of just 0.5-degrees. A large, very dense, 170mm-diameter light beam leaves the Mythos's front lens and remains parallel for its entire length even at great distances. Featuring a CMY mixing system based on three gradually fading color wheels, two rotating prisms, CTO, CTB, a frost unit, Mythos is a very versatile tool, which is useful in any situation.

After the Sharpy's extraordinary worldwide success, Clay Paky is now launching the SuperSharpy , an ACL beam type moving head featuring a 470W, 7,800K lamp. Its light beam is nothing short of three times brighter than the Sharpy luminaire, with a far bigger difference than expected by simply comparing the rated wattage of the two lamps (470W vs 190W). Thanks to this incredible output, the SuperSharpy's light reaches never-seen-before mid-air distances, making the SuperSharpy the first low-wattage beam light that can really challenge a searchlight.

However, the company says Clay Paky has not settled for merely producing a "more powerful beam light." The SuperSharpy also provides the utmost in terms of light quality and number of effects, including seven rotating gobos, 18 fixed gobos, rotating prism, CMY, color wheels, CTO, CTB, and much more.

Stormy innovates tradition since it uses the latest LED technology, but retains all the charm of a classic strobe. The light source is a strip of powerful white LEDs, which perfectly emulate a bright Xenon linear lamp. The flash effect is actually enhanced since the Stormy is equipped with a parabolic reflector, like a classic strobe, and does not project the light directly forwards like other LED strobes do. The frequency, duration, and intensity of the pulse are fully digitally controlled, and these parameters are even independently adjustable, which is impossible with a xenon lamp strobe. Thanks to its highly sophisticated electronics, the light turns on and off instantly, creating the jerky movement illusion. The time the light is on (the pulse duration) may be extended as required. The Stormy also comes with RGBW LEDs (Stormy CC), which are able to flash in any color: there is no more need for gels, which dramatically reduce the amount of light, or slow noisy scrollers.

Clay Paky is distributed in North America by A.C.T Lighting.

See A.C.T Lighting and Clay Paky at PLASA Flocus: Orlando, February 17 - 18, 2015.