Digital BW, The Print

What type of lighting do you use to evaluate your prints?
    What is the best compromise when you don't know under what type of
lighting your prints are going to be viewed (e.g:portfolio)?

  Thanks              Jerome.

Hi Jerome,

Solux lamps provide excellent high quality light (solux.net).  I use them.  The bulbs 
are available in a variety of color temperatures and beam widths.  Most galleries use 
halogen lighting, so, if you exhibit, this is probably a good color temperature choice 
for evaluating prints and a nice midground between daylight and incandescent.  It 
can also be argued that the industry standard of 5000K is the way to go, but this is 
less important to an artist doing his/her own work (me thinks).  Cheers,

Tom Andrews
http://www.wildlandart.com

>    What type of lighting do you use to evaluate your prints?
>     What is the best compromise when you don't know under what type of
> lighting your prints are going to be viewed (e.g:portfolio)?
> 
>   Thanks              Jerome.

> From: charlsalash [mailto:gureghianj@...]
>
>    What type of lighting do you use to evaluate your prints?

Solux 12V halogens on a track. Pretty cheap. They come in two color temps
and three beam widths. I use the 5000K ones, although I found I had to boost
the line voltage up to about 130V in order to get them up to that temp with
the fixtures I bought (as measured with an Eye-One). Fortunately, I had an
old variac lying around gathering dust.

>     What is the best compromise when you don't know under what type of
> lighting your prints are going to be viewed (e.g:portfolio)?

No perfect answer, but at least incandescents (e.g., halogens) have smooth
spectra that won't introduce any eccentricities of their own. Fortunately,
B&W is much more forgiving of illumination variations.

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Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
Paul                mailto:pderocco@...

I'm going to give a try to halogen, it seems to be the best
compromise. Later, I will probably get some daylight lamps from Solux

  Thanks for your help.
                               Jerome.

> From: charlsalash [mailto:gureghianj@...]
> 
>      I'm going to give a try to halogen, it seems to be the best
> compromise. Later, I will probably get some daylight lamps from Solux

Solux _are_ halogen.

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Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
Paul                mailto:pderocco@...