I don't know if the light would be strong enough, bright enough for what you need, but I have a couple of different small LED lights powered by a single AA or a couple of buttons. Each has a twist-to-light mechanism, and when you are just short of screwed-in/turned-on, a push on the button at the base of the barrel establishes contact and the light illuminates as long as the button is held down. Try looking at something like that rather than a real full-size flashlight . . .
stan On Feb 5, 2012, at 8:27 PM, Larry Colen wrote: > I've got an idea for some photos that I'd like to do. > In short, light painting some Japanese calligraphy. > To do this, I need a flashlight with a fairly bright, fairly tight beam, with > a non-locking push-to-close switch. > > If need be, I can probably get the beam I need using a fairly bright light > and some sort of a snoot on the beam, but all of the flashlights I seem to > have these days have push on / push off switches. > It seemed that it used to be that all flashlights had the type of switch I'm > looking for so that you could send morse code or something. > > Anybody have suggestions on where to find a suitable flashlight for what I > need, preferably under $20? Or am I looking at getting creative with a > flashlight and a switch from Radio Shack? > > -- > Larry Colen l...@red4est.com (from dos4est) > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
