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Old 06-10-2004, 12:28 AM   #20
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Poor man's light array

Marvin:

Your Lowel Light Array is awesome, and I am jealous! Someday .......

In the meantime, please allow me to share my poor man's alternative for those portrait artists on a tight budget:

I purchased a set of four 4 foot T-8 lamps from Just Normlicht in Bristol, PA.http://www.just.de/us/shop/shop.asp?...tstoffr%F6hren

They are 98 CRI, 5000 K, 36 watts, and in my humble opinion, quite good at color rendering; at any rate, the best flourescent lamps available. The set is priced at $119.00. T-8 lamps are brighter and more efficient than the fatter T-12 lamps, and have zero flicker and hum.

To run these lamps one needs two dual T-8 lamp fixtures available from Home Depot, each at $27.00 and change.

To mount these, I got a $5.00 1 x 12 x 4 foot board, and some 2 x 4's, also from Home Depot. I also picked up some electrical wire, 2 wall switches and a plug to fit a standard electrical outlet; all very cheap.

For the first time, I have daylight at night.

Garth
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