400w Metal Halide, 6500k - anyone tried it?

Thank god for Richard Andrewski. I true man of intelligence and kindness. Qualities often missing here.
 
It's rare that a person's obsessive interest in a technical subject translates into so much free & useful information, and also quality products that were the first to break the big-guys' price stranglehold (biax flos and HMI lighting in this case).

Now I just wish Richard would re-purpose some of his R&D and supplier channels into something like a bulb/ballast/ignitor kit for HMI at 575 and 1.2... that would be cool!
 
Al MacLeod said:
Sounds like tungsten remains a solid choice...thank you sir.
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I think it will be for quite some time. Affordable, a world of fixtures and globes, a robust used market, great color and a century of experience for image making.

But when you look at daylight-preferring camera sensors, heat, amps drawn, and quality of daylight now available, I respond to a lot of those "first lighting kit" posts with things like chinese biax, alzo HIDs, Richard's HID fresnels and bulb/ballast parts, and DIY with the big-ass spiral flos. It costs more than gathering up used tungsten fixtures, but for a tremendous amount of day to day paying work, it's very very hard to beat.

That's exactly my non-rental rig - tungsten is a lot of open faced stuff for bounce, fresnels from 150 - 650, couple lekos and a 575 par. I don't use any of that too often. It's alzo fixtures, alzo bulb/ballast, dual and quad biax units, china balls with big flos. And on plenty of shoots there will be a tungsten unit or two with half-CTB, which is a Roger Deakins thing - it's warm and tucks nicely into daylight without killing a lot of lumens.

I'm more interested in how to light it than what to use though - can anyone tell if this was tungsten or daylight?

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