My Visits: Dave's Lighting Meet 2025

On the _ I was honoured to be invited along to my first lighting meet (and the largest in the country by that date) hosted by Dave The Lighting Guy. It was an event filled day, and we each bought along some of our own lanterns to show off while also having a look at some of Dave's. I bought my two rarest lanterns with me to showcase. And these (along with many of Daves's and other collectors) went up briefly on the short column to have their moment in the spotlight. One of these is pictured below, my P350/4 for ES 125W MBF/U lamps. With the daylight and opal bowl, it did take a while to notice whether it was actually running (and as a result we did miss the brief pink section of the MBF/U warm up) but eventually the emerald green began to fight its way into view.

A Beta 9 was next up to be installed. They were incredibly light-weight, weighing 1.93kg for the remote-geared examples like this one. It is fitted with an 80W MBF/U lamp.