Usually a powerful profile instrument usually fitted with its own dimmer, iris, color magazine and shutters, mounted in or above the auditorium, used with an operator so that the light beam can be moved around the stage to follow an actor. Sometimes a beam light or other instrument may be used in the same way. Powerful followspots use discharge lamps, which cannot be dimmed, so these followspots have mechanical dimming shutters to dim the light output.
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