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Hi,

 

Works like a primus stove (pressurised kerosene) with a gas-lamp type mantle. 500W of light and 1KW of heat, colour temperature unknown but presumably similar to a gas lamp, ergo whiter than you'd think but still pretty orange.

 

Phil

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...and your soundman will hate you. :)

 

(recalling the roaring hiss of a coleman lantern!)

 

It seems like they might find some use in a remote, desert-island kind of shoot, or maybe to add little points of light in the BG of a night shoot?

Definitely a special purpose kind of thing, could be a cool practical source in a period film.

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Definitely a special purpose kind of thing, could be a cool practical source in a period film.

Yes I could've used these two years ago..... kinda pricey, but...

 

(I'd need as gas-gaffer too, I was never good with a Primus, a job for my mountaineering brother)

 

-Sam (I usually look at mountains from low angles...)

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Speak of the devil- this month's (sept 04) issue of AC has an article about the making of "Code 46" where DP Alwin Kuchler mentions the use of "noisy" gas lamps to light a guestroom scene, and how they give off a "weird green tint". He also says "they put out a lot of light"

 

Maybe these are similar to the tilleys?

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