Fox Sports recently refitted Stage B at its Pico Studio in Los Angeles with nearly
100% Elation Professional products, an energy-efficient LED-based lighting system
designed by award-winning Victor Fable with lighting supply by Kinetic Lighting. The
new lighting system includes a host of Elation broadcast-optimized lights including
one of Elation’s latest LED wash solutions, the Fuze Wash Z120™, a PAR moving
head with 120W RGBW COB LED engine.
The Fuze light plays an important role in the install and is a fixture that LD Victor
Fable is especially happy with. “I had given up on finding a light that had the same
characteristics as a VL5, which has been a cornerstone of countless shows,’ he
says. “That changed when I was introduced to the Fuze Wash Z120.’
On his search for a new colour-changing wash light with unique on-camera
aesthetics yet one that was LED-based, Fable paid a visit to Elation’s demo room in
LA to see what was on offer. “There were 10 or so other products in the demo room
and my eye went right for the Z120 and pretty much stayed there,’ he said. “The
Z120 fills all the roles for me that the VL5 would play even though it’s an LED
fixture whereas the VL5 is an incandescent. After a couple of dozen music shows, a
few talk shows and 6 months of daily work at Fox Sports Stage B, the Z120 has
proven to be one irreplaceable tool.’
Just one fixture in Elation’s Fuze series of dynamic wash lights, the Fuze Wash
Z120’s single source lens system emits an extremely homogenized beam and
features a lens face that appears as one colour on camera, unique on the market.
The non-pixel look face is something that LDs have been wanting for years. Other
Elation lights employed at the broadcast centre include white light DW Fresnel™ and
DW Profile™ luminaires, Colour 5 Profile™ LED ellipsoidal spots, TVL CYC RGBW™
cyclorama wall wash lights, TVL4000™ LED array panels, Arena Par Zoom™ RGBW
PAR wash lights, Colour Chorus™ series LED battens, and Satura Profile™ LED-
based CMY moving heads with framing.
