This seems to be a far better solution. Those are the kind of light/flash bulbs I was refereing to earlier. The output is not huge, though - app. GN30 in European (metric) terms - which makes the output almost equal to an ordenary camera flash gun like the Pentax AF280T, which I believe is GN28 (f.1:28 at 1 meter (3 feet) distance at 100 ASA). It may well be enough for the job. It may even be possible to replace the bulbs later with more powerful ones, if necessary. Not bad at all! Regards Jens
Jens Bladt mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hjem.get2net.dk/bladt -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- Fra: Gonz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt: 30. juni 2004 17:10 Til: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Emne: Re: Lighting for ebay sales? Yes, she is shooting many small items. But she also sells clothing, which she puts on a mannequin. Its the larger items that are going to require a different lighting setup. I found this non-hot lighting setup, which you can buy on B&H for about $150: http://tinyurl.com/2urz2 She only has a P&S (the HP707) so the other flashes have to be triggered in a slave fashion, I don't think you can plug a sync chord into that camera. I think you can set the flash on that camera so that it doesn't fire a pre-flash. For small items, I would recommend exactly as you mentioned, a couple of medium sized reflectors with some good fluorescents. rg Butch Black wrote: > 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) > > >
