Elation Unveils ColourTune Technology For Unrivalled Lighting
Precision
With ColourTune, users can customize lighting output to meet their needs, whether emphasizing
brightness or colour fidelity, offering comprehensive suite of features, ensuring adaptability and
colour precision for the highest quality lighting designs
Elation introduced ColourTune Technology, a lighting fixture software that allows
unprecedented
control over output and colour accuracy across Elation's range of full-spectrum LED lighting
fixtures. With ColourTune, users can customize lighting output to meet their needs, whether
emphasizing brightness or colour fidelity. It offers a comprehensive suite of features, ensuring
adaptability and colour precision for the highest quality lighting designs.
Bob Mentele, Associate Product Manager at Elation, was instrumental in ColourTune's
development. He
remarked, "Our team has dedicated over a year to research, development, and testing to bring
ColourTune Technology to life. This advanced software represents a significant advancement in
lighting control and precision. It will greatly benefit the designer who seeks to maximize the
potential of our full-spectrum LED products, including fixtures already in the market."
Critical features of ColourTune include:
Colour Tuning: Choose between the highest output, the highest fidelity, or a balanced blend
of both
to achieve optimal lighting performance tailored to any application. CCT and colour settings adjust
accordingly. When opting for the Highest Output, the fixture prioritizes output intensity while
maximizing colour fidelity. Conversely, selecting the Highest Fidelity prioritizes light quality
while maximizing intensity. Balanced achieves the ideal blend of output and colour fidelity.
Output Balance: With the new uniform setting, users can maintain consistent intensity across
multiple fixtures of the same model and ensure closely matched CCT and colours for differing models
sharing Elation's full-spectrum engine. The result is a more homogenous system. A Bright setting
allows a fixture to output its brightest levels but sacrifices uniformity of colour tone and CCT
tolerances between fixtures.
16-bit CCT Control: Gain precise control over colour temperature with 16-bit CCT control,
allowing
for minute adjustments of as little as 1-degree Kelvin for more accurate reproduction of desired
lighting hues. Instantly recallable, such an acceptable level of CCT control provides unparalleled
accuracy and is a vital tool for the high-precision needs of TV and film production. Furthermore,
seamless colour temperature crossfades that do not visibly step are possible along the 2400K to
8500K range.
White Point Adjustment: Set a desired CCT value and then mix colour from that white set point
to
achieve the perfect tone, with the flexibility to combine colours manually or select from a virtual
swatch book. Adjust colour saturation levels via the CCT channel and even match base point colour
temperature across incandescent and LED fixtures for more harmonious colours.
Dim to Warm: Emulate tungsten lamps' warm, natural glow by seamlessly fading colour
temperature as
the fixture is dimmed. With 16-bit control, smooth colour temperature fades that do not visibly step
are possible anywhere from 8500K to 2400K.
Virtual Swatch Book Fade: Effortlessly fade between two virtual swatch book colour
selections for
smooth transitions and dynamic lighting effects, with options to adjust pre-built swatch colour
points for greater colour customization.
Mentele stresses that ColourTune is one of the most advanced fixture control software available,
with feedback from the lighting design community driving its development. "Designers have been
asking for greater color fidelity and more options in color and CCT control, and ColourTune is the
result of that feedback. We're committed to providing ever greater quality and performance.
ColourTune is a great example of how we continually improve and support our products, even if
purchased years ago."
ColourTune, which can be activated or disabled as needed, enhances quality and saves time when color
uniformity across multiple fixtures is necessary. ColourTune is available now on select Elation
fixtures, including the Fuze Teatro, KL PAR FC, KL PAR FC IP, and SÅŒL I Blinder, and will be
implemented into all new full-spectrum fixtures moving forward. Updates for current Fuze and KL
fixtures are in progress, ensuring that existing customers can benefit from this groundbreaking
technology.