The Netherlands - High End Systems' Showgun automated luminaire recently made its debut on Dutch Television. Het Beste Idee van Nederland (The Best Idea in the Netherlands) is a live show in which people compete on the basis of their own inventions, with a selected jury and the viewing public voting on who has the best idea. The show is broadcast on SBS Channel 6 in Amsterdam.

Flashlight Rental supplied 15 Showguns. Part of the Ampco-Flashlight Group, the company is one of Europe's biggest rental houses and the first in Europe to purchase HES' new automated luminaire.

Lighting designer Jeroen Jans said: "For this new high-level TV show I was looking for a fixture that was both new and fit well cosmetically into the scenery with a high LED and lamp output. The choice was easy: Showgun. All 15 units did a job well done for two months, with nice slow and smooth movement in presentation scenes, fast in action, and great colour mixing too. The LED tracking ring - what a super idea! It looks great and it gives the picture just the difference I was looking for to fit the fixture in as part of the scenery."

(Jim Evans)


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