Appendix III

Lamp tables

 

Incandescent lamps

In general, incandescent lamps for film, TV and theatre in Europe can be divided into three groups, having the codes of CP, P and T. The designations are given by the Lighting Industries Federation (LIF) and are broadly described as follows:

CP Originally stood for Colour Photography, because the first lamps were imported from the USA by the film industry. All CP lamps are 3200 K and are single ended, ranging in size from 300 to 20 000 W.
P This class of lamps are also 3200 K but they are linear, double ended types, ranging in size from 250 to 2000 W.
T Indicates lamps designed for theatre, because they are of the order 2900-3000 K with an appropriately longer life, ranging in size from ...

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