[LargeFormat] A most useful manufacturer...

[lnphoto]

Yeah but down there you run 220v so you can kill yourself twice as dead,
half as fast as us Yanks running low voltage.  I live in an old house (1901)
so naturally I had to convert the garage to a woodwork shop because I
couldn't afford those expensive contractors. Now my $30,000 dolar car rots
in the driveway so I can protect $3,000 worth of saws.
In the early days the garage ran on one cirkut,  uhh  circuit. A 15 amp
coming from the bath.  I had about 4 lights, two saws and some 8 outlets on
that circuit. It was a real one man shop as turning anything but the lights
and one machine would blow the fuse.  In fact the way I knew my saw was up
to speed was when the lights came back on!

I've since put in a new breaker box with seperate runs for the lights and
the saws and it's a big help.  I"ve made lensboards--both onepiece plywood
and three piece mahogany, light stands, One box camera, repaird one old
camera that had been dropped and tore the bed off the box, and made lots and
lots of saw dust. that's really my speciality!

Les

> From: "rstein" <rstein@bigpond.net.au>
> Reply-To: largeformat@f32.net
> Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 23:52:32 +0800
> To: <largeformat@f32.net>
> Subject: Re: [LargeFormat] A most useful manufacturer...
> 
> Dear Geo,
> 
> I remember seeing a display in the British National Photography Museum
> in Bradford that illustrated the lighting setup of a fashionable Mayfair
> studio of the 1930's.
> 
> The piece of  equipment that most interested me apart from the camera
> was the bank of flourescent lights set in a large case that in its turn was
> suspended in a frame. I had always been used to tungsten, QI or strobe up
> until then and eschewed flouros due to their odd colour effects. Of course
> the bulk of the studio work in that 30's period was monochrome so that would
> not matter.
> 
> The large flouro bank would seem to be a relatively easy thing to make
> in the Home shop. It would run cool if somewhat heavy and if diffused would
> provide a large patch of light rather like a softbox.
> 
> Does the law in your state permit you to do your own electrical hookups?
> Ours doesn't, which means the thousands of fittings, switches, and wires
> that are sold in the DIY shops are illegal. We still use 'em and rarely
> electrocute ourselves.
> 
> Uncle Dick
> 
> 
> 
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