Arri light bulbs

[Captshiznit]

I bought some arri junior lights for my self funded youtube stuff and I realised they are a little too strong for my space, I've got 2 650w lights and 1 800w. I'm looking to downglobe them as I've heard this is easily achievable but I wondered what globes are in the 800 and 650w lights and what I should be looking for? I'm ideally looking to downglobe them as far as I can go and if I need more light i'll go back up (Maybe buy dimmers to fine tune). any help? Edit: I live in the UK, my arri light serial numbers are L1.79400 for my 650. And L1.76700 for my 800w.

 

[David W. Jones]

You might consider adding your location info which would let people know which voltage range lamps to suggest.

Light Model # would also be helpful.

Also how are you using these lights?

Do you have a scrim set for your lights?

Have you tried bouncing them into something like bleached muslin?

 

[Bruce Watson]

I bought some arri lights for my self funded youtube stuff and I realised they are a little too strong for my space, I've got 2 650w lights and 1 800w. I'm looking to downglobe them as I've heard this is easily achievable but I wondered what globes are in the 800 and 650w lights and what I should be looking for?

You can typically relamp a 650 tungsten fixture with a 300W lamp. Then, use scrims to go down even further. You can get full stop scrims, two of them with a 300W lamp would give you the moral equivalent of a 75W lamp. If you then push your 75W through a one stop silk, you're down to 38W. Which is just ridiculous overkill. But my examples should point you in the right direction hopefully.

Scrims are preferable to dimmers because scrims don't change the color temperature. A dimmer does; you dim down, the filament literally gets colder, so your color temperature shifts even further orange.

 

[Moseph]

Assuming you're in USA - FKW is a 300w lamp that will fit in your 650's, FAD is a 650w lamp that will fit in your 800, and FDA is a 400w lamp that will fit in your 800.

 

[Captshiznit]

You might consider adding your location info which would let people know which voltage range lamps to suggest.

Light Model # would also be helpful.

Also how are you using these lights?

Do you have a scrim set for your lights?

Have you tried bouncing them into something like bleached muslin?

Hi, I've added info above but in response to scrim sets no I don't but I will now look into these (i'm new mind so I had a rough idea what scrims do but not fully or how to fit them to my lights googling is a little hard to find info on specific lights) I'm using them in a medium sized room so not a huge amount of space to shoot YouTube cover videos.

 

[Captshiznit]

You can typically relamp a 650 tungsten fixture with a 300W lamp. Then, use scrims to go down even further. You can get full stop scrims, two of them with a 300W lamp would give you the moral equivalent of a 75W lamp. If you then push your 75W through a one stop silk, you're down to 38W. Which is just ridiculous overkill. But my examples should point you in the right direction hopefully.

Scrims are preferable to dimmers because scrims don't change the color temperature. A dimmer does; you dim down, the filament literally gets colder, so your color temperature shifts even further orange.

Thanks I appreciate the info! helping point me in right direction to getting these lights under control. They are too hardcode for my room but obviously reselling and trying to find a deal again would be impossible for me. Took me a long time to find a deal on these lights in first place!

Assuming you're in USA - FKW is a 300w lamp that will fit in your 650's, FAD is a 650w lamp that will fit in your 800, and FDA is a 400w lamp that will fit in your 800.

Thanks i'll try look into it. I guess down globing to 300w then using scrims like others have suggested will help get me on my way.