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Author Topic: Best Bulb Brand for ORC M1000 Lamphouse Larry Davis Film Handler Posts: 66 From: New York Registered: Sep 2000 posted 10-17-2004 06:40 PM                    I know the ORC M-1000 needs a 700 watt bulb, not a 1000 watt. I am wondering if one brand is better than another. I could buy a 700 Watt Christie or an LTI. Is one better than the other? I know the Christie bulbs have a good reputation (judging from the older posts). Are there any brands to avoid? By the way, the Christie bulb looks to be about $10 cheaper than the LTI. Thanks for your advice.  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 10-17-2004 10:57 PM                     I always favor the Christie lamps. They have given all my customers the best service of all lamps out there. Mark @ CLACO  |  IP: Logged Ian Joseph Parfrey Film Handler Posts: 56 From: Bollier Queensland Australia Registered: Sep 2004 posted 10-18-2004 05:09 PM                     Recommendations. Osram for ultimate reliability. The Best. Ushio great second choice and a bit cheaper. The Japanese know how to make lamps. Avoid like the plague! ALL ORC lamps. They're junk. Any Wacom lamp Any Toshiba lamp LTI, Christie, Sylvania, Philips... can't comment. These are my recommendations only and no doubt someone will pipe up and say that Osram and Ushio are shit. Larry, xenons can be a personal choice. One can not have had a failure of a particular brand and say wonderous things about them, when someone else could have been on the receiving end of a bad batch of the same brand and have had nothing but trouble. One thing to check for is the pro-rata warranty period. You may find that the more expensive lamps have a longer warrenty period and may come in handy if you have an early failure. You get what you pay for.  |  IP: Logged Steve Kraus Film God Posts: 4094 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: May 2000 posted 10-18-2004 05:50 PM                    Christie = Ushio  |  IP: Logged Daryl C. W. O'Shea Film God Posts: 3977 From: Midland Ontario Canada (where Panavision & IMAX lenses come from) Registered: Jun 2002 posted 10-18-2004 06:13 PM                        Sylvania = Osram  |  IP: Logged Rich Ferrando Film Handler Posts: 64 From: Royal Oak, MI Registered: Nov 2003 posted 10-18-2004 06:39 PM                       We use primarily LTI's and Christies. The LTI's are reasonably good, but seem to darken a bit faster than the Christies, at least in my experience. The big difference, so I'm told, is that if an LTI lamp explodes in the lamphouse, LTI will replace the lamp AND reflector for free.  |  IP: Logged Daryl C. W. O'Shea Film God Posts: 3977 From: Midland Ontario Canada (where Panavision & IMAX lenses come from) Registered: Jun 2002 posted 10-18-2004 07:24 PM                        So long as it's still under warranty hours, just like everyone else's lamps.  |  IP: Logged Ian Joseph Parfrey Film Handler Posts: 56 From: Bollier Queensland Australia Registered: Sep 2004 posted 10-19-2004 12:32 AM                     With the Christie - Ushio & Sylvania - Osram thing, are the Christies/Sylvanias badge engineered by Ushio/Osram or a specific line? In Oz, Wotan were Osram for a while, no longer though.  |  IP: Logged Larry Davis Film Handler Posts: 66 From: New York Registered: Sep 2000 posted 10-19-2004 10:15 AM                    Thank you all for your opinions. In the end I decided to go with Osram.  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 10-19-2004 10:22 PM                      |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 10-19-2004 10:28 PM                     Ditto Mark. Christie bulbs simply cannot be beat.  |  IP: Logged Dean Kollet Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 591 From: Florida State University Registered: Jul 2003 posted 10-19-2004 11:14 PM                     Christie's = GOOD LTI (which is what my theatre started buying) = POO  |  IP: Logged Ian Joseph Parfrey Film Handler Posts: 56 From: Bollier Queensland Australia Registered: Sep 2004 posted 10-20-2004 04:44 PM                     Top choice, Larry. ORC lamps = more  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 10-20-2004 10:42 PM                     Superior Quartz is my choice  |  IP: Logged

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