[LargeFormat] Light Tables and Boxes

[john frost]

                Kodak
                EPP #6105 8x10" 50 Sheets Ektachrome 100 Plus
Professional
                Color Slide Film (ISO-100)
                More Info
                                                 
                                                  USA
                                                  Price $375.95

is about $8 per shot/sheet here. I wonder if there is a black market for
tittie-xx from down under??

john (:>)) with no visible means of supporting a film habit...

Clive Warren wrote:
> 
> At 12:20 am -0500 15/12/02, Jim Hemenway wrote:
> >Clive:
> >
> >Are you up early?  Or still up very late?  It's midnight here in
> >Massachusetts.
> >
> >It must be what... about 5 AM in the old country?
> >
> >Thanks for the reply and yes it looks good on my light table.  Did I
> >tell you about that?  I don't think so, so here it is:
> >http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1791095985#BID1?ViewItem&item=1791095985
> >
> >As you can see I bought it CHEAP. When I went to get it, and to my
> >surprise and mild consternation,  the seller used his fork lift to load
> >it into my small pickup truck.  At home my son, (21) and I couldn't lift
> >it, so I disassembled it and we carried it into the house in pieces.
> >
> >My apologies if you've or anyone else has already heard the story.
> 
> Jim,
> 
> I was up very late - must be the flu medication! I did hit the hay by 5.30am
> 
> Great story about the light table, bit of a bargain - something you
> can lean on and rest your beers on the edges without any worries. I
> built a wooden version here that is about 30" x 12" - before Uncle
> Dick asks how thin the wood had to be to allow the light through, it
> has a opal plastic top :-)
> 
> The tubes are supposed to be near daylight balanced and so is the
> opal screen. It seems to average out to provide a reasonable
> approximation of daylight. Haven't checked it on a meter though.....
> The light fittings and tubes came from a skip, the wood from offcuts
> and the screen from an industrial supplier as an offcut. If 8x10
> trannie film was the same price in the UK as it is in the US then I
> would have had the delight of looking at one on the lightbox......
> 
> Cheers,
>         Clive
> 
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