ROSCO MI XBOOK | USER REVI EW
In the new world of programmable LED lighting, having a quick and portable way of previsualising colours – like a digital swatch book – is a great idea ROSCO MIXBOOK PRICE £80/US$99/€89
WORDS ADAM GARSTONE / PICTURES ROSCO
IMAGES Rosco’s Mixbook is only 110g and fits in the palm of your hand
players in the game and incumbent manufacturers. Gel pioneer Rosco – itself now a manufacturer of LED lights – has recognised that the possibility of generating virtually any visible colour with these new fixtures causes an issue. In the ‘good old days’, to get colour you stuck a gel in front of the light, and you chose the gel from a swatch book. Now, you programme the light to generate the colour, but it would be useful to have some quick and portable way of seeing what the colour looks like beforehand – a kind of LED swatch. MIXBOOK Enter the Rosco Mixbook (which is written stylised in all capital letters, for some reason). It’s basically a tiny, portable, Li-ion battery-powered
n the 30 May 1916, British radio detection equipment noted a 1.5° movement in signals
of Jutland. The man responsible for setting up the vital early warning radio equipment was Captain Henry Joseph Round. For his service, he was awarded the Military Cross. After the war, he became chief engineer at Marconi, where he discovered electroluminescence, and kicked off the technology that would become the light emitting diode (LED). LED ORIGINS Despite the early start, it wasn’t until high-intensity blue LEDs were developed in 1993 that broad- spectrum lighting LEDs became possible (the inventors, Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2014). There has been a massive explosion in LED lighting fixtures since then, from both new
from the German naval fleet. It had set sail, hoping to lure out ships of the British Navy and destroy them. Forewarned, the British fleet slipped past the Kaiserliche submarine snare before it was ready, and engaged the Germans the next day at the Battle
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