Now, this is a triple entry of 3 lighting things I currently own that should be getting used with my photography now and then. And will be used with it next time I’m doing stuff. These three lights are a lovely double tube UV lamp, a brightly strobing strobe light and a couple of high power IR flood lamps. What I would want with a UV lamp, a strobe lamp and IR floods are a good question, but this is me we are talking about. Since these 3 lamps are nothing particularly difficult to find anyway, I wont bother with linking each one specifically on its entry, but just say the UV tubes we’re bought from Jaycar and the IR floods and Strobe were aquired off eBay.
Now to start with the UV light. Its your typical long wave black light setup, two 4ft fluorescent tubes mounted in a double holder. Nothing particularly fancy, it puts out black light, makes things glow. You know the normal deal with UV. Why I have it? It makes things glow, makes things look different and If its not already clear already, I like strange lights. Which may be why I also have UV pen light, torch, keyring…. yeah. Theres not really much to say about it bar that. If you don’t know what a UV light is, this will all be lost on you anyway.
IR floods. Another light that puts out even less human usable light than the UV’s. Two normal flood lamp enclosures full of IR leds and a 12v power supply. A very slight glow when directly looking at them, but this thing really shines when coupled with one of my many digital cameras. Since my room is normally lit with a CFL light to save power, there is very little IR light to be worked with at night time, and the 1000W of halogen floods I used before was uncomfortable to stand in front of, put out a lot of heat and probably were a fire hazard. So they were replaced. The power supply is the only part of the setup i dislike currently, The one im using really ain’t designed for this work. Oh well, something to replace in the future.
Finally my most recent light purchase, a 750watt strobe light with pulse rate of up to 20Hz. Why do I own this, I suppose its cause i want to experiment with some stroboscopic photography and thats cheaper than buying a 580EXII camera flash by about $500. Heh. Ill let you know more about this one once Ive actually tested it out for my purposes.
[This entry will never be finished so its being published in this state as the final historical entry]
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