The Martin Mac 250 Plus - Is It Worth It In 2020? 

i still love my claypaky sharpy movers from 2009

We had a lot of these in bars back in the day and this model and the 500 took so much maintenance. I see them on EBay a lot and wonder if I should buy one for old times sake. Thanks for the interesting video.

Nice review, we had a bunch of these a Loughborough SU when I worked as lighting and rigging crew around 2006-8ish.

I love these lights. Somthing about them makes me like them much more than the newer technology today.

I was toying with either getting a set of 250 Kryptons or Elation Platinum 5r Spot. Ended up with the Elations due to weight. Thanks for the info...

My High school owned 2 Martin mac 300s and 2 martin mac 250 kryptons but only one of the krypton's work, and they were very good and for a high school we were lucky to own these fixtures also i was a lighting technician at my school

Just acquired some Studio 250’s and I came across a pair of Mac 250+’s that I considered adding to the collection. Still on the fence, but I truly love collecting history.

Nice Video. You are completely right, an old moving light is still a moving light. And the prices really dropped down so it makes it very attractive go get some old professional quality light instead of cheap new ones. Just look at MAC 700s. They are awesome. But the sound (loud fans , motors and end positions of some effect wheels)!!!, weight and size are factors to consider... and they will have issues. But they are servicable. Try servicing a 5 year old budget moving head. You have to hope that you still get spare parts. The chinese manufacurers like to make changes to stuff without documenting it. Although original new Martin spare parts are not cheap... I used to have a bunch of Smart Macs. The dual case is the same as for the 250s and it's more like 80kg. There is no way to stack it by your self. And the bulbs expolde after a while. It's not dangerous but you have to completely clean the fixture after it. That takes some time... Thanks for the video. Greetings from Daniel to Daniel.

Useful video, thank you. I have a question, having seen a few of these lamps for sale at pretty decent prices. I'm looking to do an art installation which would involve illuminating the interior of a building with patterned gobos. A group of lamps would be used for different effects. Do you think the 250 Plus would be sufficiently bright to deal with throws of typically 10-12m? Projection surface is mid grey. Very little ambient light (aiming to do this at night). Thanks in advance!

Can anyone tell me the difference between the 250+ and the Entour models? Is the + version newer than the release of Entour in 2003?

I have 4x robe 1200ats which were ex install and they were caked in dust soon as they were cleaned they looked factory new but they are ludicrously bright but still great fixtures

Hi Dens, What kind of lights you recommend for a fixect instalation (Club) with 5m ceiling? Thanks

I grew up using these lights. I liked them at the time, but then I brought a bunch of Mac500s, 550's (not well know!) and 700s and once I got them my view of the Mac250 was that it simply didn't have enough feautures, were not bright enough and wasnt the best for theatre because if they have to compete with fresnels and profiles, they are drowned out.

hah. a local theater converted to music hall uses a couple of these, and I was curious what they were and found myself here.. they run the gobo effects super slow and use them as the backstage washes.

Hey! Realky liked your video! I would like to purchase a few moving heads, and had a few questions: when you say you can't touch the lamp, for it can explode, does it mean I can't touch the glass or the entire lamp with bare hands? What are the cheaper and better options ? Thanks!

I know it’s old - but the color wheel is really great - you get your normal “dj” colors but you also get great pastels and a CTO. Also the stock gobos are pretty swell. I love the glass lines gobo.

Mac 250 is so my childhood. ❤️ Make some videos about vintage ones ha! Cyberlight and studio Color 575.

Even with new lamps & fully cleaned still not bright enough, the optics just weren’t great but for over 20 years ago they were good, I have Entours now & they are really good.

These are pretty cool. How did you get into the lighting business?

Hi can you get the Martin Mac 250 Entour to go to music and how ??

Got two, unfortunately both broken :-(, can't find out what's wrong. Both won't power on. Probably something wrong with the pcb, but great lights when working!

I am in the situation where I need to decide between modern day low-mid range moving heads, vs older higher end moving heads like this one. I am thinking of investing in 4 Chauvet DJ Intimidator Spot 260's. We own 2 Chauvet 375z 150watt movers, and they are super bright. The brightness of these movers is helpful when using the prisms, but we don't need their full power when just using the beams themselves. We only have pipe, not truss, to rig them on, which makes me concerned about buying old lights due to their weight and the possibility of additional rigging needs. But there are heaps of functionality that the old fixtures have that the new fixtures do not. The Martin gobo's are far superior, and they have CMY where the Chauvet's just have a colour wheel. And the older fixtures seem to all require a lamp, compared to the LED only power of the Chauvet's. Could anyone share any thoughts? We are a small school theatre, that has lots of small music performances, and some drama and dance performances.

What would you use to control them?

*nervously laughs in LD using multiple Coemar Infinity Wash XLs, Mac 2000s, & VL3500s weighing down trusses and calculating weight loads for local venues*

Hey how can you set these lights to ‘auto’ or to run on their own without a dmx controller?

Do one of old scanners

Would you buy 6 Martin mac2000 wash to add to a little hire fleet....

Why do I get that it has 4 asterisks and does not turn on as it should only the 4 asterisks appear on the screen

Was really hoping you were going to give us a demo?

Convert it to an LED lamp, not too difficult to do! 😊

Like your video. BUT i think you should have made an AB test with those new LED lights you metioned. In a room with some fog.

Hi everyone My boss of the club gave me 3 old of them. Where can i find replacements ( does it worth it?)? Gobo motors, lamps. Thanks 🙌

How much do the mac krypton 250s go for today? Thank you

I dont know why you say martin moving heads arent good today. Ive got a rush mh5 that i have to turn the brightness down because of how bright it is, and its colors and effects are quite beautiful. Yes its 1k vs the 300$ of a mac 250 but at full steam 2 mh5s are going to dazzle more than 4 mac 250s

i was watching these lights under my childwood example in stages like freddie mercury, U2, gang and roses, red hot chilli peppers and pink floyd uses theses old tecnologhy of stage light

Can you do the same video but for the 700?

Daniel your handsome.

These was my first moving head experience, always a favourite but by today’s standard they’re quite slow moving 😅

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youre a lighting operator NOT a designer unless you design every thing down to the cables you are using