Sorry I'm late to this thread. Work's been crazy and I'm a day or so behind on the digests.
I concur that I wouldn't go with hot lights. The one thing I haven't seen in the threads (up to where I've read so far) is what your friend is shooting. If it's primarily small items like jewelry or knick-knacks I would just buy a couple of shop light reflectors and put daylight balanced compact fluorescent bulbs in it. Larger items and I would go with some inexpensive flash, Britek might be a good source and a set up would not be much more then the SV unit. Check out Shutterbug, Britek usually advertises there. Butch Each man had only one genuine vocation - to find the way to himself. Hermann Hesse (Demian)
