Replacing the Minim fresnel. The new Minim F is slightly longer but the lens is deeply recessed so that colour filter performance is much improved without the necessity for an outrigger colour frame. The internal access is now easier through a rearward sliding top panel.

The new and complete range of compact 500/250 Watt Minim spotlights ensure that creative lighting with theatrical flair and subtle colour filters is no longer restricted to purpose-built, fully equipped theatres and studios.

Inexpensive Minim spotlights, packed and priced complete with 500W lamps, give the same choice of beam qualities and flexibility as Rank Strand's increasingly powerful Prelude, Harmony and Cadenza spotlight ranges, but on a smaller scale.

The Minim Profile, Minim Fresnel and Minim Prism Convex spotlights bring the best Rank Strand lighting equipment within the more limited budgets of community centres, amateur and school societies and make practicable, and economic, the use of more dramatic lighting for greater impact of presentations and displays.

Projects a beam that can be accurately, and conveniently, shaped by the four externally operated beam shaping shutters. The internal lens is moved, by a knob recessed underneath, to hard or soft focus the beam edges.

This particular beam quality is most useful for very accurate spotlighting of an area or object; the beam shaping shutters being angled to prevent unwanted light on adjacent surfaces.

The beam spread with all four shutters withdrawn to their limit is a generous 28 degree circular spread; the maximum sized square is 20 degrees. Useful up to around 9.5m throw.

Should a wider spread be required the Minim 23 Profile can be modified from 28° to 38° with the use of a supplementary lens (photo left). A 12-leaf iris diaphragm is available as an accessory for variable diameter circular beams.

500W Lamp RSE/18, GY9.5
28° , 23,000 cd, ½pk.angle 18°,
with addition of wide angle lens
38°, 9,000 cd, ½pk.angle 27°

500W Lamp M40, GY9.5 / 500W Lamp CP82, GY9.5
300W Lamp M38, GY9.5 / 300W Lamp CP81, GY9.5
Weight 3.85kg

(Introduced in 1983 as a replacement for the classic Pattern 23)

Provides a soft-edged circular beam variable from an intense, tight spot to a smooth wide angle flood by a sliding knob recessed underneath which moves the lamp and reflector relative to the efficient Fresnel lens. The Minim F is similar, but not identical to the original Minim.

The flexibility and beam edge quality are ideal for general emphasis and highlighting; the soft, indeterminate edges making it fast and simple to join and overlap the beams from other spotlights.

The spread, to the angle where the intensity is half as bright as the centre of the beam, is adjustable between 12.5 degrees and a wide 55 degrees; the useful light extends upwards to 65 degrees.

Projects a circular beam with a tight diffused edge and variable from an intense pin-spot to an efficient wide angle flood by slide movement of the recessed knob. The Prism Convex spot is a modern restatement of the original simple lens spot but the filament striation and edge colouration, then so apparent, has been eliminated.

The diffused edge is not dissimilar to a defocused Profile spot, but the wide variation of beam spread is as flexible as the Fresnel. Ideal for fast, tight lighting.
The spread to the half peak is from only 7 degrees, up to as wide as 47 degrees with the useful light extending up to 53 degrees.
The best Minim spotlight for long throws up to 13.5m, but equally useful at close range.