Lighting AccessoriesThe Basics

Gel Frame

• holds gel (color)

• different sizes for different instruments

color extender

• moves the color away from lens

• dissipates heat to extend life of saturated colors

goboaka: template, pattern, Cookie(film only)

• Steel gobos

Aperture

• High Resolution Steel Mesh

• Glass gobos

• images

• crushed

gobo holder

• For steel: slot or sandwich

• For glass: special glass holder

donut

• Used to increase the clarity of patterns and custom gobos by reducing halation thus sharpening the image.

• They sharpen the definition of projected images by blocking the unwanted light.

• Slides in behind gel frame

barn door

• external shutters

• for fresnel and PAR

• doors rotate

• side flaps

• has its own color frame built in (so acts like a color extender as well)

top Hat

• reduce glare ( by hiding lens from audience)

• control spill light

HALF HAT

safety cable

• used on all lights

• used on all heavy accessories over audience

IRis

• light a circular shutter

• set to any diameter you wish

IRis

• light a circular shutter

• set to any diameter you wish

side arm

• extend a pipe to the exact point you need

• remove c-clamp from instrument, yoke bolt goes into Tee, which can slide on the arm

Tee

beefy new models

Consumables

gaff tape

• no residue (for a few months)

• mostly we use black for taping down cable and dance floors and white for labeling cable runs

• comes in colors

Black wrap

• black aluminum foil

• cover spill from back of instrument

• create a single barndoor flap

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Black tak

• black aluminum foil tape with a heavy duty no residue sticky side

• use to secure blackwrap