Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/12/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]ksherman wrote: > > hi folks, > i've decided it's high time i get a good light > box for viewing negatives, and i thought i'd ask what you folks considered > a good one that's not too terribly expensive. i'm not even sure how much i > should expect to spend to get a good one. would just be for viewing negs > made with the leica and some transparencies from time to time too. > thanks for your time, and continued best wishes to all during the remainder > of the holiday season. > kim Just about any LightBox is way too expensive imo, even the cheapest one which is a Logan probably. I have 3 of the mini 8.5x11 inch Logans, one on my projection stand I built out of cedar, one in my file room of negitives and prints and one is on loan as I can't find it right now. But I have a non brand name 2x4 foot florescent light fixture which holds 3 four foot florescent bulbs. This is sitting on a long table on the dry side of my darkroom. For a while I had white glass on top of it but someones elbow went through it. Now it's got white Plexiglas on it and I forgot about that fact and put cut marks in it which I'll have to rub down. Glass comes in real handy for cutting with an X acto knife. I had very expensive full spectrum bulbs in it for all these years but I'm putting a full set of less expensive ones in now. Unless it's a transformer or starter starting to go out. It's just a regular white Fixture that instead of being on a ceiling you put upside down on a table. It cost one fifth the bucks from what I remember. This size LightBox you can lay a strip of film on, a full roll for viewing and cutting...stuffing into plastic sheets and viewing a set of contacts rear lit which is the way to do it IMO. Mark Rabiner