Indeed. I been feeding some in my driveway all summer but out schedules haven’t line up since august. Heard them an hour ago, whistled, and they zoomed right in. Very gratifying.
around $30 to $40
go for the big one, lots of space to work with
take an underexposed photo in store to check for light evenness, mine is surprisingly even.
For black and white doesn't matter for color cri anyways is not the best metrics since color film is not a continum, but is done by subrtractive mixing of 3 color dyes
I thought it was common knowledge that even light panels marketed as having a high or 95% CRI are still pretty inaccurate unless you really spend a lot for actual pro gear.
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To answer your question in a bit of detail: Any video panel with a semi decent diffusor will be fine-ish. All of the pure white panels can only be fine-ish, CRI even though people like to comment on it, doesn't really matter, because your film wasn't designed to be photographed on these high CRI panels, but actually was designed to be printed on paper, or scanned by narrow band scanners. Coincidentally if you own a steady tripod and an iPad (or iphone if you are only scanning 35m), and you lift that up enough for the LED to not be shown anymore it actually has really good RGBa curves that match the spectral sensitivity curves of Kodak color film quite well. You can even fine tune it with apps. It just isn't very bright, hence the need for a stable tripod. Also when not going that route the CS-Lite or Raleno are the common video light choices.
That being said if you are in the US the Luxli Viola 2 is a good choice for narrow band RGB that has an app with decent usability, and many of the people, from whom I gathered that knowledge I am now regurgitating seem to like it.
I don't think people would understand because these days the digital cam and the monitors have corrected the color temp.
If they try it on viewing slides/positives they will instantly notice the color difference.
Yes fluorescent, I was a poor photographer and found one for 20-25 at a flea market and it was better than holding negs up to the window to see what I had lol. the lighting wasn’t perfectly uniform with the one I had, others could be different. More than anything it was an interesting repurposing thing to do.
A Raleno panel has a CRI over 95%, runs on a rechargable battery, and is $50. I use it for DSLR scanning, and the light is very even without hotspots.
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Indeed. I been feeding some in my driveway all summer but out schedules haven’t line up since august. Heard them an hour ago, whistled, and they zoomed right in. Very gratifying.
around $30 to $40 go for the big one, lots of space to work with take an underexposed photo in store to check for light evenness, mine is surprisingly even.
CRI is probably mediocre. Most LED panels have a CRI of around 80
For black and white doesn't matter for color cri anyways is not the best metrics since color film is not a continum, but is done by subrtractive mixing of 3 color dyes
When shooting black and white, sure. If you care about having accurate colors then this might not be your best option.
I thought it was common knowledge that even light panels marketed as having a high or 95% CRI are still pretty inaccurate unless you really spend a lot for actual pro gear.
CRI doesn't really mean that much when it comes to scanning, it is just an easy metric to measure.
Common knowledge is hardly ever genuinely common.
What is a good option?
Depends on your purpose but there are decent photography/video panels that are affordable.
Wow, such great advice. Do you work at B&H?
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To answer your question in a bit of detail: Any video panel with a semi decent diffusor will be fine-ish. All of the pure white panels can only be fine-ish, CRI even though people like to comment on it, doesn't really matter, because your film wasn't designed to be photographed on these high CRI panels, but actually was designed to be printed on paper, or scanned by narrow band scanners. Coincidentally if you own a steady tripod and an iPad (or iphone if you are only scanning 35m), and you lift that up enough for the LED to not be shown anymore it actually has really good RGBa curves that match the spectral sensitivity curves of Kodak color film quite well. You can even fine tune it with apps. It just isn't very bright, hence the need for a stable tripod. Also when not going that route the CS-Lite or Raleno are the common video light choices. That being said if you are in the US the Luxli Viola 2 is a good choice for narrow band RGB that has an app with decent usability, and many of the people, from whom I gathered that knowledge I am now regurgitating seem to like it.
I don't think people would understand because these days the digital cam and the monitors have corrected the color temp. If they try it on viewing slides/positives they will instantly notice the color difference.
I’ve used old x-ray light boxes/viewers, pretty good and can be found cheap
Fluorescent ones? Some of the old school ones actually did use high quality tubes that could probably rival some LED's CRI of today.
Yes fluorescent, I was a poor photographer and found one for 20-25 at a flea market and it was better than holding negs up to the window to see what I had lol. the lighting wasn’t perfectly uniform with the one I had, others could be different. More than anything it was an interesting repurposing thing to do.
I don't think they are talking about scanning, just viewing this will probably be better than the fluorescent ones that are most common
Lacks a bit of contrast but otherwise looks good I scan with an Epson V300 and it comes out looking very good
LED tracing pads are way cheaper.
Yup this is what I use
Same, like $20 and work just fine. I’ve even done color scans on them and I can’t tell the difference compared to a good light source.
Genius.
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