Re: Anyone ever made their own light box?

2002-06-04 Thread Scott Nelson
Thanks everyone for sharing your experiences. I'll let you all know how it goes. -Scott - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .

re: Anyone ever made their own light box?

2002-06-03 Thread Jostein Oksne
Scott Nelson asked for opinions and stories on making lightboxes... Just got to tell you about my own (stupid) adventure here... When I wanted I lightbox, I figured it would need to be BIG so that I could view many slides at once. For composing series, for example. It also occurred to me that

Re: Anyone ever made their own light box?

2002-06-01 Thread Fernando Díaz del Castillo H.
Here they call them opacos... thanks for the correction, though. Fernando Ann Sanfedele wrote: Fernando Díaz del Castillo H. wrote: I did just this last weekend: 5. The glass is quite important: an opaque glass, cut by an expert did the job. Fernando Fernando - ooops - I

Re: Anyone ever made their own light box?

2002-05-31 Thread Ann Sanfedele
Fernando Díaz del Castillo H. wrote: I did just this last weekend: 5. The glass is quite important: an opaque glass, cut by an expert did the job. Fernando Fernando - ooops - I think you meant to say translucent glass , yes? g Anyway - I made one for myself with two fluorescents -

Re: Anyone ever made their own light box?

2002-05-30 Thread gfen
On Wed, 29 May 2002, Scott Nelson wrote: I'm thinking of buying some colour corrected light bulbs and making my own light box out of wood ~11x14. Has anyone done this. I'd appreciate any tips. Please share your experiences / triumphs / disasters with me. I would guess that the critcal

Re: Anyone ever made their own light box?

2002-05-30 Thread Bill D. Casselberry
Daring sacriledge here, unless you are doing your own pre-press analysis for 4-color litho reproduction any diffused light source will do just fine for viewing slides. Face it - we are mostly interested in checking for sharpness and magnifying the tiny 35mm

Re: Anyone ever made their own light box?

2002-05-30 Thread Fernando Díaz del Castillo H.
I did just this last weekend: 1. I bought pre-cut wood in a construction outlet (35cmX10cmX0.5cm each). 2. Small nails were good enough to put them together in less than half an hour with some glue to make it stronger. 3. The bottom was made of a very thin (less than 0.5 cm) piece of wood. Same

Anyone ever made their own light box?

2002-05-29 Thread Scott Nelson
I'm thinking of buying some colour corrected light bulbs and making my own light box out of wood ~11x14. Has anyone done this. I'd appreciate any tips. Please share your experiences / triumphs / disasters with me. I would guess that the critcal issues are: achieving uniform light diffusion