Quasar Science

Quasar's grassroots beginnings, and our dedication to lighting technicians and filmmakers all over the globe is what drives us to design workflow solutions for filmmakers of all kinds. We had all sorts of wacky ideas of what kind of LED fixture to make in those first days. As technicians, we understood that few people were excited about lights at 6am when the truck opened up, so making an all around useful light was the main task. It was getting harder to find incandescent light bulbs for sets as they were being phased out, but consumer LED bulbs were in their infancy and not yet suited for filmmaking. We thought ’Someone should make color correct, flicker free LED light bulbs!” and so it all started. By 2014, we had every shape light bulb from A19 to MR16 to R40, all color correct with consistent color temperature ranges, which at the time was a feat in itself, and the dimming was finally smooth enough to release. We also made retrofit LED tubes which took off like gangbusters and is likely the Quasar product most of you are familiar with today. As filmmakers began using these tubes as fixtures all in themselves, we thought perhaps this is the LED fixture we had been looking for all along.