> I've seen them in catalogs, but not recently. The ones I saw are just a
> little LED light as big around as a button cell with a ring to hold them
> on a finger. I figured they would just get in the way of using my hands
> and/or sang on pockets/clothing/equipment straps and go flying off
> somewhere, and probably hurt me in the process.
Well, at last someone who's safety-minded and thinks like me.
I spent all summer spraining alternate ankles when
I wasn't falling on my ass on a dew-ey spot in the grass or,
doing spilts into the cistern.
Imagine what I'd have done without enough light to walk by!
(And, I'm not saying that all of this happened in the dark but, that
certainly doesn't help matters).
I'm retired with a bad back anyway. Falling on it certainly doesn't help!
> A little LED light on a
> string around ones neck works fine for photography.
> Wow! now that I think about it, I think I'll get one of those little
> spring loaded gizmos people put ID/Keycards on and put a little light on
> it. Not the old heavy duty one for a ring of keys, the lite plastic ones.
My experience with car alarms and other things on a ring with keys
is that you drop it, the keys land on top of it and, pop it open or break
it.
Besides which, you don't really have room to work it. How do you shine the
light from a keychain on a keyhole and, insert the key at the same time?
>
> Moose
>
> Jon Wichman wrote:
>
> >>A US company makes something we Brits call a 'finger torch". I
> >>understand that US Marine helo pilots use them at night when they are
> >>using night vision goggles and don't wish to "flare" their gogs. Our
> >>boys managed to get hold of them for the Kosovo campaign. The light
> >>is a dull green colour (flat green?) and it straps to a finger (you
> >>will be surprised to read ;-)).
> >>
> >>It would be pretty cool to have one of these for small illumination
> >>of your gear during night photography...
> >>
> >>Chris
> >>
> >It sound like it indeed would!
> >Now that the topic is momentarily on photography, I wonder if you
> >could find a source for those on the web or something?
> >Or, are they still top-secret military only stuff?
> >
>
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