RE: [Leica] Light box

[Jim Laurel <jplaurel@microsoft.com>]

I've had one of those little Visual Plus boxes for 4 years or so and they
are great.  It's especially useful when going to meetings with an editor.
At MSNBC, sometimes a lightbox isn't readily available or you're in a
meeting room.  It's nice to be able to whip that little light box out of
your satchel along with a Leica Loupe (of course) so they can look at slides
in a pinch.  The 9v battery doesn't last very long, though.

But I find the light it gives off a little on the cold side.  It's
positively blue compared to my regular light table -- a Just Normlight Mini
5000.  Incicentally, the Just Normlight is a great product.  I compared
several in person and it seemed the best all around.

- --Jim Laurel

- -----Original Message-----
From: B. D. Colen [mailto:bdcolen@earthlink.net]
Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 1999 2:39 AM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: RE: [Leica] Light box


For Xmas my kids got me a wonderful little gizzmo from a co. called Visual
Plus...a model VP-60650V, which is a portable "light box"/viewer, with a
viewing area of 4x5, color corrected, that uses a 9V battery or AC
adapter..weighs nothing...takes up no space...perfect for viewing negatives,
which I have cut into strips of four for scanning....Sure beats holding the
sheets up to the window or ceiling light!;-)...It's just big enough to see
what I need to see and do mark-ups with a grease pencil if I want to....

I don't know what it costs, but I would suspect it's around $75 .....

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Mark
> Rabiner
> Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 1999 6:25 PM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Light box
>
>
> 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
>