Ellipsoidal Light 101

Nowadays, ellipsoidal light play an increasingly important role in stage lighting. However, many stage lighting technician still confused about ellipsoidal lighting fixtures, especially hear difference words about ellipsoidal, profile spotlight, source four and LEKO and so on.

Therefore, COYO sorted out 6 lighting technician and buyers’ most concerned and confused questions about ellipsoidal spotlight and gave you the most objective answers.

Let’s dive right in now, and you can click on the question that interest you.

1. What is Ellipsoidal Light / Ellipsoidal Reflector Spotlight / LED Ellipsoidal ?
2. Why choose Ellipsoidal Light ?
3. What is Feature of LED Ellipsoidal ?
4. What is LED Ellipsoidal Light Sort ?
5. The 4 best LED Ellipsoidal Lights 2022 ?
6. LED Ellipsoidal Light / LED Ellipsoidal Reflector Spotlight Video

Ellipsoidal Light, also is called Ellipsoidal Reflector Spotlight,it is the name for a type of stage lighting equipment, named for the ellipsoidal reflector used to collect and direct the light through a barrel that contains a lens. Ellipsoidal Reflector Spotlight may also be referred to as Profile Spotlights (especially in Europe) because the beam can be shaped to the profile of an object.

Theatre professionals may refer to it as an “ellipse” or “ellipsoidal”. “Source Four” is a brand name, and that term is used too. Most of time you may also hear long-time stagehands call it a “Leko”. The most popular Ellipsoidal Lighting fixtures is the LED Ellipsoidal on the market.

There are many beam angles that can be selected and applied according to needs. The main feature of ellipsoidal lights is that it can cut the spot into various shapes such as squares, diamonds, triangles, etc., or project various gobos. It is generally used for close-up lighting of stage objects and characters.

The ellipsoidal light can obtain a narrow beam light , a strong sense of direction, and a clear edge. The smaller its beam angle, the farther the range. The clear beam of the ellipsoidal spotlight is very suitable for creating the beam of characters in the dark field and the beams that want to highlight the performance such as table flowers and road guides.

Compared to traditional Ellipsoidal spotlight with HPL575 or 750W Halogen bulb, now the main Ellipsoidal Fixtures is LED Ellipsoidal Fixtures on the theater ellipsodals market,LED Ellipsoidals’ with Energy saving, high luminous flux optical lens combination, high CRI, extremely uniform spot, no blue edge, adjustable angle many features.

COYO LIGHTING focus on LED Ellipsoidal Stage Lights to show you Ellipsoidal LED World and help you to choose the best ed ellipsoidals for your theater projects, and saving your money in Ellipsoidal Spotlight.

There are two difference kind of LED Ellipsoidal Lights based on degree with Fixed LED Ellipsoidals and Variable Zoom LED Ellipsoidals

1) Fixed degree LED Ellipsoidal Light

Common fixed degree of lens have 19 degree, 26 degree, 36 degree and 50 degree for LED Ellipsoidal.

How to choose four difference lens degree ellipsoidal LED? You only need to remember a piont, that one is small distance choose large degree, another key point is large distance choose small degree ellipsoidal fixture. Such as the ellipsoidal between target of stage is 10 meters, you need to choose 50 degree or 36 degree Ellipsoidal LED Lights. If the distance is 20 to 30 meters, you need to choose 19 degree or small angle ellipsoidal light.

2) Variable Zoom Ellipsoidal Light

The most common Variable Zoom Lens is 12°to 30°and 25°to 50°for the Ellipsoidal Lighting fixture.

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