Martin Professional has released the new MAC Axiom Hybrid which is an amazingly powerful fixture. The unit has many features that enable lighting designers to achieve beam, spot, and wash functionality from a single, compact fixture.
The MAC Axiom Hybrid uses a 440w short-arc lamp to achieve a bright output throughout its entire zoom range. The zoom is amazing as it is continuous from 2 degrees to 44 degrees. There are no modes or additional lenses required to change from beam to spot. In fact, the zoom from 2 to 44 is extremely fast and can be used with or without focus tracking.
The nine rotating gobos are all designed to be strong aerials or great projections. Each is on its own easy-to-change carrier. As is common with rotating gobos, each can rotate at different speeds, index and shake. The entire wheel can also spin in opposite directions and at differing speeds.
The fixed gobo wheel has many different abilities combined into the single wheel. First there are a number of beam reducers that tighten the beam to a near pencil beam effect. Next you will find twelve fixed patterns (again a good combo of aerial and projection). Following that there is a frost filter and partial animation effect. The latter is similar to the animation effect on the MAC Viper Profile.
The MAC Axiom Hybrid's two prisms with prism lineator effects provide superb image multiplication. The prism lineator function allows movement of the prism within the optical path to alter amount of overlap in the prism facet projections.
An independent beam softener can be inserted into the optical path to reduce the hot-spot created by the short arc lamp. This is especially useful for crisp gobo projections or flat-field illumination needs.
The MAC Axiom Hybrid also sports a great color system consisting of CMY flags that have been tuned to match the Viper series. An independent variable CTO and a fixed color wheel with sixteen colors plus open add to the color abilities.
With a low weight, servo motors for movement speed and accuracy, and a compact size the Martin MAC Axiom Hybrid is quickly becoming a new industry standard.
