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<blockquote data-quote="TJ Cornish" data-source="post: 35747" data-attributes="member: 162">Re: Chauvet SlimPar Pro RGBA ReviewHi Charles.&nbsp; My controller is an ETC SmartFade ML.&nbsp; I&#039;m not sure what the DMX frame rate is, or if it can be changed.&nbsp; I&#039;ll check on that.&nbsp; I played with fade times (mechanical fading - not timed fades) and with the dimmer curve set to off I couldn&#039;t make the fade smooth with any slow to medium fade.&nbsp; The stepping between the Blizzard and Chauvet was almost identical.&nbsp; It&#039;s possible there&#039;s a setting in my controller that can improve that.&nbsp; If so, I imagine it would improve fading with the Blizzard as well.&nbsp; The Chauvet dimming curve is nice in that it clearly plays well with basic controllers - there&#039;s no need for external smoothing - it just works, at the cost of slower dim times - something that isn&#039;t a problem for how I&#039;ll use the fixture.&nbsp; If you were trying to use a controller to strobe these, the slower dim curve may be an issue, as you said I think in your other post.&nbsp; I assume if you use the fixture in 10 channel mode and use the on-fixture strobe function that would not be a problem.I agree about the Chauvet beam - it&#039;s nicer than the Blizzard.&nbsp; I also agree about the difficulty of capturing colored light with a camera.&nbsp; I played around post processing the amber pictures and no matter what I did I couldn&#039;t get the camera to represent the color as anything close to amber - it always came out very red.&nbsp; I had my Canon 5DII set to 3000k white balance for all pictures for whatever that&#039;s worth.As you said, the amber is a pretty nice addition - the difference in warm colors is very substantial and isn&#039;t well represented by my pictures.&nbsp; For my purposes this is more important than the multiple colors behind each lens - I&#039;m glad I picked the RGBA version over the TRI version.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="TJ Cornish, post: 35747, member: 162"] Re: Chauvet SlimPar Pro RGBA Review Hi Charles. My controller is an ETC SmartFade ML. I'm not sure what the DMX frame rate is, or if it can be changed. I'll check on that. I played with fade times (mechanical fading - not timed fades) and with the dimmer curve set to off I couldn't make the fade smooth with any slow to medium fade. The stepping between the Blizzard and Chauvet was almost identical. It's possible there's a setting in my controller that can improve that. If so, I imagine it would improve fading with the Blizzard as well. The Chauvet dimming curve is nice in that it clearly plays well with basic controllers - there's no need for external smoothing - it just works, at the cost of slower dim times - something that isn't a problem for how I'll use the fixture. If you were trying to use a controller to strobe these, the slower dim curve may be an issue, as you said I think in your other post. I assume if you use the fixture in 10 channel mode and use the on-fixture strobe function that would not be a problem. I agree about the Chauvet beam - it's nicer than the Blizzard. I also agree about the difficulty of capturing colored light with a camera. I played around post processing the amber pictures and no matter what I did I couldn't get the camera to represent the color as anything close to amber - it always came out very red. I had my Canon 5DII set to 3000k white balance for all pictures for whatever that's worth. As you said, the amber is a pretty nice addition - the difference in warm colors is very substantial and isn't well represented by my pictures. For my purposes this is more important than the multiple colors behind each lens - I'm glad I picked the RGBA version over the TRI version. [/QUOTE]

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