Amount of lights produced per year.

[altnick]

Hello everyone,

 

When I visited the largest lighting rental company here in Holland some time ago I asked about the amount of 18K HMI lights that they had. They had 2. So now my question is : How many 18K and 1.2K lights are approximatly produced and sold per year by a company like ARRI? And how many 18K or 1.2K lights does the rental company you go to approximatly have?

 

I am asking these questions because I would like to know how big the market for new lighting products is.

 

Thank you in advance.

 

Bryan Onel

[John Pytlak RIP]

Since lights don't really "wear out", I would assume the market for existing designs is fairly constant. But new designs that offered unique features or flexibility could find a significant market.

[Mitch Gross]

When you're talking about a very big, very expensive light such as an 18k, I'd guess that the total worldwide catalog from all manufactures combined was likely little more than a couple of thousand units. And I think this is being generous. When you go down to something like a 1k tungsten fresnel, then there much be millions.