Would this Item work with LF

I am new to and have never used Professional lighting so I am just guessing, Friends need your help I was thinking of

Continues lighting I am using a Calumet 4x5 View Camera using 210mm and 300mm Schneider Lens with Kodak

sheet Film Portra 160 ASA. what do think of this item or would it work with Film Camera or not. Please need your

feed-back.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=230265181174

No.

 

2- 30 watt fluorescent bulbs are barely enough light to read a newspaper with and not nearly enough light to use for large format film, or any format film for that matter. Even shooting still lifes will require very long exposure times which will create real exposure and color reciprocity.

 

Look for 1200 ws of studio flash as a bare minimum.

Brooks,

 

I'm glad you spoke up.

 

That auction mentions nothing about the power and you have to click on the bulb and then read the tiny 30 watt markings on

the base of the bulb.

 

They takes pains to list the color temperature of the bulb and that they are "Fancier" brand, but no mention of the power

anywhere in the auction that I saw.

 

 

 

Miss Heidi, eBay can be a minefield for the uninitiated .

 

There are so many hucksters selling lighting kits that you really need to be armed with knowledge but the giveaway is the

price here. Could you really expect to get a lighting setup that would be of ANY use for 60 bux?

 

I'm trying my best not to be condescending but with the money you are putting out for film and processing alone should tip

you off that this stuff has to be the rankest plastic junk.

Miss Heidi asked the same question a couple days ago. Could she be the alter-ego of F-Stop?

Outdoors I don’t have issues like this, indoors my lighting issues are a nightmare. It is trying to figure out what I need more than any thing with 35mm it wasn’t this bad if I used a Vivitar 283 Flash then what it was calling for was a f=stop larger then my shutter had since my shutter on 4x5 was f=4.5 was the widest lens opening and then it was figured out at a shutter speed of 1/60 if I use a light meter then it wants a full second or more. Since I am doing Cats and animals as soon as I use a flash it scares the Cat I guess If I was to use Tungsten lighting with 2 – 500w bulb in their face would be to bright I am really ask for help trying to figure what I need or how to light a subject without scaring the Cat.

" ...I am really ask for help trying to figure what I need or how to light a subject without scaring the Cat...."

 

You need studio strobes which don't make a high-pitched whine when they recycle like camera flashes do..

Thanks Brooks now I know what I need