Del Jones

Lights, travel, photography, and other wondering thoughts...

Tag: lighting

Time to do away with the dongle...?

Vista by ChromaQ has been using the dongle as a form of licence since it was born under the Jands name. Is it time to do away with it?

lighting

How do you provide redundancy for your Vista?

My current lighting desk is a Vista by ChromaQ. I have two surfaces, the MV and an EX. With all the other bits like a good screen and all the cables, etc, to make it work, it goes into a Peli case that weighs 26kgs, Ideal for flights. Indeed, this set-up has been all over the world on all kinds of gigs and it has never, but I mean, never let me down..!

lighting

My Journey with Vista, my lighting desk of choice.

Back in 2008, I was looking to own my own lighting desk. I don't know why, I just did, it kinda felt like the right thing to do at the time, I could operate a Whole Hog and an Avolites desk. I was also, before then, quite proficient on the Vari*Lite consoles. Whatever happened to them?

lighting

DevonThink. An LD's paperless tool...?

Over the years, I have used both PC and MAC computers, but for the last 15 years, I have settled on a MAC for work and personal use. When I bought my first MAC, I came across DevonThink and found the concept very intriguing, but at the same time confusing.

computing, lighting