tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18058147.post3716955802381274589..comments2024-03-15T02:50:17.397-04:00Comments on Pleasure for the Empire: Oh, What Big News We Have TodayAndrew Bellwarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05718623679244389126noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18058147.post-18542427741994450602010-06-08T16:42:16.971-04:002010-06-08T16:42:16.971-04:00Ooh, that sounds like an awesome way to make a fli...Ooh, that sounds like an awesome way to make a flickering light!<br />I'm sure the self-ballasted lights don't otherwise play well with regular dimmers.<br />Back in the olden days at the Wooster Group we had some sort of very complicated system for dimming florescent lights. It was very complicated.Andrew Bellwarehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05718623679244389126noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18058147.post-77705346854763503972010-06-08T16:39:20.118-04:002010-06-08T16:39:20.118-04:00I have some lights like that, but not ones with a ...I have some lights like that, but not ones with a built-in ballast. I'm just wondering what that buys you. (Can you use a dimmer switch on it, then? That flickery light we used in the basement scenes of FOC1 was made by putting one of these kinds of lights on a dimmer and dimming it down--it goes wonky)Kangashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05306092145547452231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18058147.post-19463907831907634982010-06-08T09:18:35.401-04:002010-06-08T09:18:35.401-04:00That looks cool too.
The thing about the floresc...That looks cool too. <br /><br />The thing about the florescent light is that it's 85 watts (which they say is the "equivalent" of about 300-and-some-odd numbers of watts in an incandescent.) <br /><br />What else have we learned here? That I can't spell "floerescent" or "incandescant".Andrew Bellwarehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05718623679244389126noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18058147.post-28646978070312382182010-06-08T02:34:09.972-04:002010-06-08T02:34:09.972-04:00What's so good about that light?
And let me ...What's so good about that light? <br /><br />And let me point out this--I got one, and it puts out ridiculous light for the cost.<br /><br />http://www.amazon.com/Sima-SL-20LX-Ultra-Bright-Video/dp/B000WKW69Q/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1275978794&sr=1-1Kangashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05306092145547452231noreply@blogger.com