Re: Don't buy Martin!

On Sun, 08 Jun 2008 20:11:07 +0100, Michael Neff <poetsoldier@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:

> On May 14, 9:32 pm, "Peter Herman" <rpe...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> <noooo...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> news:6e4l241ha97pee82dt459glb1janq2i1k0@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> > On 14 May 2008 23:16:50 +1200, "Smoking Causes Lung Cancer (SCLC)"
>> > <S...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>> [snip]>
>> > Yet you have all jumped to the assumption that it's for no
>> > valid reason.
>> [snip]>
>> > It was intended as a warning. Now that I see the reaction, if I ever
>> > want to warn about a lame company it would probably be best to
>> > say they are fantastic, so people like yourselves will jump to the
>> > conclusion that they must be lame. From the "logic" of this group
>> > and yourself included I should jump to the conclusion that you
>> > disbelieve smoking causes cancer...etc...
>>
>> I don't think that most of us would object to the use of a pen name IF 

>> the
>> post had contained some information on WHY you were slamming Martin.  
>>  For
>> the most part, we don't need a pseudonym when we complain.  I told our
>> Strand Sales Rep right to his face that I liked his product (he was  
>> trying
>> to sell me a 300 series console) but that I would never buy one until  
>> their
>> service in our area got a whole lot better than it was.  I am living  
>> proof
>> that Strand didn't put out a contract on me as a result of my lack of  
>> tact!
>>
>> As a group of technically inclined folks, we want to know what exactly 

>> is
>> wrong.  Are lamps blowing for no reasons? Are the optics inconsistent  
>> from
>> unit to unit? Are the shutters failing to index? Is the service rep  
>> unable
>> to fix a problem?  As they say in the National Inquirer ads, "Inquiring
>> minds want to know, we want to know!"  With information we can compare 

>> your
>> experiences with ours and perhaps even suggest a fix.
>>
>> Peter
>
> I would like to purchase one light, Parcam size, small spot maybe,
> which could be used remotely to follow an actor. The High School
> theater has little funding and no room for large normal spotlights to
> follow moving actors, nor do we have enough instruments to fill all
> the holes as they wander during a song. Could someone give me some
> ideas- companies, prices? dependable is im****tant but price is key.

It'll be cheaper to buy enough lights to actually light the stage.  
Followspotting with a moving head light is seriously tricky.