Spotflux Lite 2.10.7 Build 97 This website can use cookies to improve the user experience Cookies contain small amounts of information (such as login information and user preferences) and will be stored on your device. Spotflux 3.0.0 Encrypt your internet connection, protect against viruses and more with this one-stop, very simple security tool Mac 7.80 MB Tested & Secure Previously updated Jan 29, 2004, August 5, 2001. If you do many different kinds of photography it helps to have strobes for some subjects and cool continuous fluorescent lights for others.Ĭlose-up of one Spotflux, one of the Balcar fluorescent light arrangements. So if you are starting a digital photography studio, or improving one you already have, you can find these Balcar fluorescent lights at PMA, Photo Plus, or Photokina trade shows.Ī sample of the several sizes and shapes of Balcar lights (the open ones the umbrellas are on strobes). What does count is heat: fluorescent lighting is cool lighting for your studio. With digital cameas it makes no difference whatsoever whether the lighting is fluorescent, tungsten, CD (ceramic discharge), or HMI for that matter. After all, you just click on your Macbeth ColorChecker, or click on any white or gray, and you balance for whatever light. But with today's digital fluorescent lighting, no more ugly color cast. When you used Ektachrome or Fujichrome, having fluorescent lights was the kiss of death. We find the Balcar lights better designed for photo studios than the Videssence.įluorescent lighting is one of several kinds of studio lighting that is ideal for digital photography in particular

We have both the Balcar and the Westcott because sometimes you need a really powerful system (Balcar) and other times you need to move a set out on location (we use the Westcott fluorescent lights for photographing tropical flowers and plants in Guatemala).īalcar lights are made in France and you get the European quality you expect. And Westcott Spiderlites (fluorescent) when you need a lighter, more portable basic system. We found two good replacements for fluorescent studio lighting: Balcar for when you really need serious power (shown here). So we began to look around for more practical replacements.

And, the Videssence cases fell apart the first week using them to transport out on location. Videssence fluorescent lights are designed to hang from the TV studio, like a bat in a cave. But we tried to use Videssence fixtures and quickly found out they were awkward when you tried them on top of a lightstand. Balcar fluorescent lights for digital photography studios.įluorescent lights have been used in TV studios for years.

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