09-25-2009, 04:03 PM
lafinfil wrote:
Wow - that's a little scary !
I was at a press conference many years ago and a videographer next to me had a Lowell Tote-a-Lite blow a bulb -
no mesh screen on the front so it scattered hot quartz glass all over and caught an upholstered chair on fire.
It was overall more interesting than the rest of the press conference.
I use a whole bunch of ARRI 2000 watt lights for the high speed stuff. When one of them goes, everyone ducks and covers their face. I have a bulb somewhere that blew out, but stayed in one piece. The glass bulged, went molten, and blew out, but it cooled back down after the filament broke. Looks like an inverse water splash.