I recently picked up a very nice LED flashlight branded with the name
Larry by Nebro on it. It has 8 LED's in a row and resembles a swollen
ballpoint pen. I hope it's powerful enough for some of my photo work
and I know it was priced fairly. I purchased it from a store catering
to contractors--not a typical box store.
At the Denver convention one of the judges, a female who seemed to take
her responsibilities very seriously, had both a flash light and a mirror
to peek under the cars.
And regarding those leg extensions and PVC pipe-lights--to me they were
great. I think they were used for two years as Michael mentions. As I
recall, at St. Louis they had been laid in the corner and not used.
Additionally as Bill Fraley mentions, photo contests have the same
issues to some degree. Most groups setup an easel with two flood lights
at a 45 degree angle. The two lights have to register a certain
brightness level and a certain color balance. I've seen several
'officials' each bring out their light meters and a color temperature
meters so they all agree standards have been met--yes those guys can get
really fussy! Each contest photo is brought before the judges and
mounted on that easel. The person moving the artwork wears white gloves
at the events I've attended, which have been State PPofA conventions. I
would feel that local camera club contests are much more informal.
Bob Werre
PhotoTraxx
Maybe complaints about room lighting are just a symptom of our
collective aging and increasingly poor eye sight! <G>
I noticed a few folks in Scranton carrying small LED flashlights and I
believe Dan Navarre at River Raisin Models had one to light up fine
detail on his brass models to potential customers. Might be we should
all start carrying them. Personally I don't enter model contests, I'm
not that good a modeler, but in the future contest judges might be
given a small LED flashlight as a token of NASG's appreciation for
their service and to just flat help them see. Sounds like an idea that
could be communicated to NASG's contest chairman -- Monte Heppe...
Jim Kindraka
Plymouth, WI
--- In [email protected] <mailto:S-Scale%40yahoogroups.com>,
Michael Greene <mgreene@...> wrote:
>
> Regarding contest room lighting:
>
> One of the previous NASG conventions (I think 2007, but not 100%
sure) developed a nice set of lights for lighting the contest models.
Built on 8' sections of half round (cut lengthwise) large diameter
white PVC to provide the light reflector. Worked pretty well I
thought. They were passed on to the Bristol Club for the 2008
convention and we passed them on to the next convention. I am not sure
where they are now. But I thought it was nice that nice models got
better lighting...
>
> Regards
> Michael
>
> ----------
> Michael Greene
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Aug 14, 2013, at 4:57 PM, "Bud Rindfleisch" <BlackDiamondRR@...>
wrote:
>
> > Roy, Yes the contest room had "good" lighting, ...
