Just wondering if Elation is looking at adding multiple shutters to get an ellipsoidal effect from a moving head? The only fixture I know that offers this is the Source 4 Revolution.

There are a couple more then that. You can order VL1000s with either an iris or a shutter like you are talking about. Mac 2k Performance also has shutters. There are some others out there as well. Then beam shapers are the equivalent for wash fixtures, which just about everyone has now a days.

They are rarely useful outside a theatre setting, so its kind of a niche market. Always nice to have options however, like 2k Profile and 2k Performance, though I am sure a lot more Profiles are sold vs Performances.

It would be really useful in the church market too... If this was available in a more affordable fixture, the use of traditional lighting would be gone for me.

I plan to use all leds and moving heads on the downstage truss in our new building but, I will miss not being able to shape my beams...

Justin

You can grab some barn doors for the LED fixtures if you get something like Opti RGBs or Opti Tri Pars. Beam shapers will give some of that control, but not like shutters or barn doors will. Maybe a dealer in your area or someone who has some fixtures can demo say a DW250 or any light with a beam shaper for you to show you what exactly the beam shaper does. It might give you the control you need. Can't hurt to look.

Cheapest fixture with shutters would be a Revolution. Personally however, I would much rather have VL1000s. While having modules for the Revolution is nice, everyone I have ever seen has had shuttering and rotating gobo wheel. Now if they had a CMY module, that would even things out a bit more. The VL1000 has CMY, frost filter, 6 rotating gobos, greater zoom range (super angle is 70 degrees), and a brighter lamp (7,400 peak lumens for Revolution vs 10,000 for VL1000 T or 15,000 for arc standard life, 14,000 for arc long life). You can also get the VL1000 T with or without internal dimmer, which means its dimmer curve matches the rest of your fixtures in your dimming system. All that for not much more then the Revolution after buying the modules. The biggest seller for me though is the CMY. Just food for thought if looking to go that route.

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I would like to clarify for Serra, The design WASH's I believe the 300 and up have beam shaper. I dont believe the design wash 250 has a beam shaper. Also the design spot just has a dual flag dimming system. Serra you said DS250 which to me says Design Spot 250 not wash. Sorry if im being a pain. haha.
Sincerely,

Wow, my fault. I will edit the post. It should have been DW250, not DS250.

As for the DW250 and beam shaper, it has 180 degree one according to website, manuals, DMX chart, and cue sheet. Don't actually have one to say yes or no, but that would be a lot of miss prints. The DW300 and DW575 have 360 degree shapers. The DW1400 says it has it, but its not in the DMX settings anywhere.

Clay Paky has a couple like that as well. Not beam shapers but four, true shutter cuts that you can work individually.