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Lighting for locations and sport
Introduction
The colour of the light sources selected for any location lighting have to blend with any existing lighting but most importantly must be capable of giving good colour rendition. A prime requirement of lighting for sports is that the sources are as efficient as possible due to the reasonably high light levels required.
When we started our careers in the lighting industry, it was quite common, particularly on sports events floodlit for TV, to see several huge carbon arcs positioned on top of scaffolding towers, nowadays we would get a similar result by using 2.5 kW or 4 kW discharge PAR sources.
In a TV studio the lighting system is usually permanently in position for the operators to manipulate ...
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