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>>movie scrim… dropping lumens instead of F-Stops<< That's exactly right. Since a production can only fit so many lamp units on a lighting truck, or even in a studio lamp room, haveing scrims allows one to acheive lamp intensities that are in-between two unit models (like Inky and Mickey Mole <= these are real lamp names, btw <g>). I knew I remembered theater scrims being different. That explains why I wasn't confident, though… in union theater labor divisions the grip department deals with scrims, drops, teriactiods (sp?), sets, stages, etc…, and the electricians deal with lamps, gels, cabling, and anything with a power cord sticking out of it somewhere. I was a stage electrician. John Tissavary (LUNA cie)