yep, a bit more expensive these days, especially with full spectrum lighting
tubes, but flourescent dimmers have been around for a while now, and they are
great.
I have installed several applications in commercial buildings as well as a few
in residential applications.
I personally love Metal Halide and Fourescent lighting out of all the
applications I have installed the last 20 years as an electrician... I have a
250 W metal halide in my office in the winters ( only) and have dimmers on the
quartz incadescent screw in type bulbs in the living room fixtures for evening
reading work.
I also use an IKEA 24W low voltage quartz at the desk for late night surfing.
There is a lot of different tubes available for flourescent fixtures, often
measured in Degrees Calvin..
I often make a good dollar just showing these different types off to clients
because they dont know the difference between "Daylight' and Cool White",
changing their lighting and showing them how to create different work
environments with different lighting.
One client painted their office light peachy- brown to match the brown tile
accents and told me to change the bulbs to Warm White, the office was PINK when
I was done.. I got paid to change them to Daylight afterwards...
They didnt listen to me at the time they asked my professional opinion, so I
billed them..gotta love "designers" with a university degree...
Cheers.. Tim
Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: I have dimmable flourescent
cove lighting in my kitchen with daylight
bulbs. I hadn't known that one could dim fluorescents until I built
this house 10 years ago. When talking to the guy at the lighting store
I was grousing about having to choose incandescent lighting if I wanted
it to be dimmable. He said no problem and ordered special ballasts from
a company in Boston. The controls are the ordinary dimmer switches
you'd use with incandescent lights.
I've often thought that this arrangment with daylight bulbs would make a
good set of studio lights.
Chuck Norcutt
Jeff Keller wrote:
> If you are doing a lot of product photography the barrel distortion of the
> 14-45 might be a miinor source of frustration. I would recommend the 14-54
> over the 14-45.
>
> Depending upon what product you are photographing, flourescent lights might
> work well. Color accuracy likely won't be perfect but setting up the
> lighting would be easier. Check out some of the lights Adorama and B&H sell.
> Although not cheap they don't have to be ridiculously expensive. There was a
> web site where a photographer described how he had tested flourescent lights
> and found that those with an electronic ballast that he bought from a
> hardware store worked very well for his studio. I believe he tracked down
> some better than normal tubes.
>
> -jeff
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