John Buckley “Land Of The Lost” Gaffer

Los Angeles California:
John Buckley III, chief lighting technician (IMDB) used 280 of our Mac Tech Tungsten 6 Space Lights for 14 weeks shooting “Land Of The Lost” (IMDB) at NBC Universal Studios Hollywood. That saved 25% power consumption as compared to using the old style standard 6k FCM space lights. That calculates out to a savings of 420,000 watts, roughly 3800 amps. The foot candles on the floor were more than double that of the old style FCM space lights which gave the DP the freedom to use whatever film stock he wanted. The Mac Tech Tungsten 6 Space Lights were loaded with 750 watt long life bulbs (2000 hours) and John chose to use the wide lenses. At the end of the 14 weeks, out of all the 1680 HPL 750 long life bulbs there were only 12 burn outs. 80 of those lights had just come off of the set of Car Poolers and had been working for 14 weeks over there. Out of the 280 sets of silk skirts & targets we only had one silk skirt damaged and that was a blood stain from a cut finger while loading.
When all things are taken into consideration, the power savings of both lights and air conditioning, the savings of labor time changing blown bulbs and the lack of extensive L & D charges for damages to accessories, our Mac Tech Tungsten 6 Space Lights were a hit.

NBC Universal Studios then purchased 175 of them and sent them down to New Mexico to work on Terminator Four.

Success! How sweet it is.

Thanks to John Buckley III for trying & testing our lights in the most demanding of situations!