Richard Martin Lighting have just increased their immense moving light portfolio by purchasing 48 Alpha Beam 300’s, manufactured by Italian lighting company Clay Paky. Their debut appearance for RML on Comic Relief 2009, lit by LD Chris Kempton proved a resounding success, “I just think that gobos beams are so dated now, these new units gave me an excellent beam light, their compact size allowed me to use them in groups on the show”. They also appeared on a recent episode of Blue Peter alongside a prehistoric T Rex life-like model, the main star in the upcoming show ‘Walking with Dinosaurs’ at the O2 Centre this August. The LD for Blue Peter, Lee Allen commented, "The Alpha Beam 300 outputs so much light for such a small foot print, so when one has to fill Studio 1 at Television Centre with nice tight bright beams behind a 26 foot T Rex, they did the job, the throws we achieved with them were long and the gobo worked well to bring in the changes throughout the show."
The light produces a super concentrated near parallel light beam, for use very similar to that of a Par 64 ACL, always present in all the big Rock n Roll shows, but with superior and innovative features.
The new, special Clay Paky optical group, with a 300 W lamp produces three times the brightness as that of an ordinary 1200 W wash projector, generating an extraordinary “tube of light” with a natural beam of 8˚.
Richard Martin Lighting’s decision to invest in these particular moving heads was influenced by feedback and subsequent demand from our existing clients since the Beam was released over 8 months ago. The new Alpha Beam 300’s are available to hire now, competitively priced and an extremely useful addition to any lighting design, please visit the product details for more information.