At the Los Angeles Auto Show (LAAS), TLS Productions, Creative Technology and Christie Lites provided a new workhorse fixture — Elation Design Par 575s — to replace conventional 575W daylight PARs. Arnold Serame, who lit the Toyota, Lexus and Scion booths at LAAS, credited the no-frills fixtures for their economy and reliability. Fewer fancy features, he noted, means fewer moving parts to break. But he credits one moving part — the yoke — for increasing the time available to get the focus just right. Creative Technology’s Chris Wasilauskas, who lit the Kia and Audi booths, agrees, noting the huge advantage remote focusing has when rigs need to change from auto show to press event mode.
—From “Niche Projects: Lighting the L.A. Auto Show,” PLSN, February 2015, page 41, by Thomas S. Friedman
