ever seen the massive amount of lights above a stage, Steve? Wanna know how we get to those lights or get the lights down to the stage? The most state of the art PAR meter is in every single theater house to measure the amount of light to the stage, especially on lights (interestingly called PARS) that are gelled (colored), so we aren't flying in a full electric pipe or using a genie lift with the required three spotters (bodies = money) to find out which light may go during a show....or...that the equal amount of light is spread across the stage to eliminate dead spots. It can also tell us if a gel is about to burn through...which would cause an unwanted lighting effect because of the difference between the center of the light and the edges. I betcha i could read the PAR of your tank from here with that meter....j/k. Answer your question? And no...I can't lend this out...ever. My body would wind up in the canal.
a little more than 200 bucks in these.....