A mini report after visiting SIB International 2008 in Rimini, (Italy)
Sib is the expo for audio, lighting and video technology and services for the show business world and entertainment in general, that took place from 5 to 8 April (few weeks ago).
Pangolin was there and shared the stand with an interesting company from Hungary: RGB Laser System International. www.rgblasersystem.com
I met Mr. Hale from Orlando and I had a very nice conversation with Mr. Uglesic from the european division of Pangolin, wich is deeply involved in the development of the Flashback 3 design.
I told him that here on PL there is a sort of a Flashback3 Fan Club, so I recommended him to take a look...
People from RGB Laser System where also very friendly, in particular Mr. Bozsò.
He showed me an incredibly small Blue laser module prototype, rated 1,6Watt, the size of a generic 100mw TTL
Wavelengt is 445nm and is not DPSS, but DIODE.
I asked for prices and specs:
model D1-B
500 mW output
445 nm
beam quality M2 1,5
Beam diamether 3 mm
div. 0,8 mRad
polarization linear
beam mode multi
modulation analog up to 30K
volt 90 - 240
price approx. 3000 Euro
model D2-B
1000 mW output
445 nm
beam quality M2 1,5
Beam diamether 3 mm
div. 0,8 mRad
polarization random
beam mode multi
modulation analog up to 30K
volt 90 - 240
price approx. 6000 Euro
model D4-B
2000 mW output
445 nm
beam quality M2 3
Beam diamether 3 mm
div. 1,4 mRad
polarization random
beam mode multi
modulation analog up to 30K
volt 90 - 240
price approx. 10800 Euro
size: L=112 W=103 H=42,9 (millimeters).
I was also stunned by the quality of the projectors from HB-germany and by the weird effects generated by a scanner from LSE-Belgium
I know that you are thirsty of pictures, so here is a very compressed clip in real video (36mB), using my brand new HD camera.
http://www.infoparty.org/pitotv/sib2008pitotv.rm
If anyone is interested, I have a DivX HD 1200x720 of the same clip.
Unfortunately I had no tripod and the show from RGBlasersystem suffered some scan rate conflict with my camera.