Martin Theatrical Lighting Innovation at ABTT 2011

June 15-16 will see the Martin UK team attending the ABTT Theatre Show (Royal Horticultural Halls, London, Lawrence Hall, Stand 98) where the company will be displaying its broad portfolio of award-winning lighting and video display products specifically designed to enhance theatre environments.

The products include:

The EC-20 represents the new generation of indoor and outdoor LED display panel, the company says. It combines the image quality and precision of conventional high-resolution screens (20 mm pixel pitch) with the creativity and low weight of mesh-type screens. The EC-20 is semi-transparent and is designed for fast setup and teardown in combination with maximum flexibility and easy serviceability.

The Martin Pro MAC III Performance is a high-output profile moving head with a new interleaved framing system with full crossover of each blade and industry-first continuous rotation for new projection, framing and effects possibilities. It is available as a stand-alone fixture or as an easy-to-swap module that installs in minutes on any MAC III Profile, eliminating the need to invest in two separate fixtures.

Designed for easy-to-produce yet high-impact looks, the ultra-compact MAC 101 moving head fits anywhere and features rapid movement, calibrated colors, and a very bright beam for plenty of bang on a tight budget, the company says.

The MAC 101 is available in three white light versions that expand its use to applications where high-quality pure white light is needed. The new variants incorporate cold and/or warm LEDs instead of RGB for a better white light quality and greater output.

The MAC 350 Entour is an LED profile fixture that surpasses what has previously been possible in terms of brightness (8,000 lumens), efficiency, and compactness in a hard-edge LED fixture, the company says. It is the market's first real alternative to traditional HID-based profile fixtures, the company adds. In a package smaller and lighter than 250W fixtures, it exceeds even 300W fixtures in brightness.

The MAC 401 Dual RGB Zoom is an RGB LED moving head wash light with fast zoom. An innovative double-sided design gives it flexible dual functionality, for example as a double wash light or beam reflective mirror. Advanced wash characteristics and zoom combine with a host of other useful features like individual LED segment control.

The MAC 401 CT Zoom is a versatile color-temperature-variable white light source wash luminaire with fast zoom. It not only delivers more light than traditional RGB LED fixtures but projects a much better light quality, making it suitable for highlighting skin tones or textiles, the company says. It is also available as a module that easily fits onto either side of any MAC 401 Dual, creating a white light or color plus white light source.

M1 is Martin's next-generation lighting controller; with the full power of a larger desk and the agility of a smaller one, it follows the simplicity of Martin's current controller platform in an all-in-one lighting desk.

The P3-200 System Controller is a new addition to Martin's P3 System Controller family for LED screens. The P3-200 combines all the celebrated features of the P3-100 yet adds SD-SDI, HD-SDI and 3G-SDI input capability for optimized use in TV/broadcast environments. It retains all the advantages of the P3-100 System Controller, such as built-in scaling and de-interlacing, multiple video protocol and resolution support, direct DMX control of brightness, color, pixel-mapping, and more.

The Maxedia 4.4 software release for Martin's Maxedia media server brings the feature set to a higher level, the company says.