Any lighting technicians? Mirror ball question

[nuyorican]

The initial message was deleted from this topic on 13 March 2025 at 19:28

[megaphone]

In the old days PAR 36 pin spots were used. They are 240v input but contained a transformer, the PAR36 lamp was 6v 30w. You then shoved a coloured gel in the front.

I'm sure there are LED Pin Spot replacements available now, maybe with colour change? I would say a 5w LED will be enough. At 7m the beam may be too wide, you may need to get it closer to the ball for best effect, Ideally you don't want any 'spill'.

Edited by megaphone on Friday 21st February 07:07

[singlecoil]

An led lamp that you can change the colour and intensity of would be ideal, after that it’s all about focusing the light to get it to shine where you wanted it but not where you don’t.

This is an issue photographers deal with all the time, the answer is usually a snoot which is a reverse cone placed in front of the lamp and allows only a narrow beam to play on the subject.

[normalbloke]

Just hit it with a laser pointer…..

[8bit]

nuyorican said:

Those little pen things that chavs shine at police helicopters?

Never knew you could still get those. What are they actually for?

Also, fried eyeballs!

Cats (clicky).