A new washlight steps in the Ayrton family, able to sculpt light like the Bora, but as small as the Merak, which means a mere 60 cm height (head pointing up), and weighing only 22 kg. Levante is a true wonder, delivering 20,000 lumens thanks to its 300 W led engine.
For stage applications, one should better go for the S version and its bigger luminous flux, and its 6500K color temperature with a quite standard CRI of 70. For studio applications, the TC version will be a better choice with its 5700K reference white and an excellent color rendition (CRI 90).
If you can’t wait to actually see it at Prolight+Sound exhibition in Frankfurt early April, Ayrton unveils it on this video:
Ayrton – Levante – Presentation from Ayrton on Vimeo.
Just like the Bora, Levante stands out of the crowd with its framing module, but this time miniaturised, in which each of the 4 blades is positionable on all the usable beam field, to frame any object whatever the projector position is.
It also comprises a 7 rotating gobos wheel to widen its scope of applications, an iris with 15% to 100% variable aperture, and a progressive Frost providing a large choice of diffusing variations.
With a 138 mm diameter front lens, the optical system boards 13 lenses for a very wide zoom from 6.3° to 58° (9:1 ratio) and an even beam without hot spot. A main asset for color rendition is the CMY color mixing system, the progressive CTO, and the complementary 7 colors wheel.
Icing on the cake, to really meet all the lighting designers’ requirements, an additional diffusion filter is inserted into the lenses, to soften or even erase the beam edge, but without changing its angle! That is something stunningly new indeed…
More information on the Ayrton Website.
Text: Monique Cussigh. Translation: Bruno P. Souchaud. Photos: Ayrton.
