Somewhere along my way to discover new and useful Photographic tricks, I managed to stumble on an expensive search for just the right tool. Now I wish to share what I have discovered. I enjoy taking time lapsed photos, and I really enjoy using a Flashlight to paint the picture, to achieve the desired effect. Try it sometime. Its a lot of fun. But the common flashlights I have tried, all seem to have a HOT SPOT. Rats! this is unacceptable. So I bought any kind of odd flashlight I could locate. My wife thought I was a FOOL! Its is obvious she does not understand the passion that drives a person in Genuine Unscientific Research. I was looking for a diffused light source that I could stick in my pocket, and use at will. I finally found a solution in an odd object. A broken LCD TV. Someone gave me one to disassemble, and I discovered there are four layers of film used to diffuse and spread the light evenly. So I disassembled the TV and placed the sheets in front of the flashlight. Holy Cow! it worked very well. Too well. It also works great in front of a strobe for a close-up. And it was Free.
Now my search continued for a Color correct flashlight. A Google search revealed nothing. But then on a Police Tactical store on Ebay, there it was. A miniature Color correct flashlight, that uses two AA batteries and output of 80 lumes. Yep! I ordered it, and Yep! it has a Hot Spot in the center. But with the diffuse sheets from the LCD TV, it works great. Is the color correct? I am no scientist, but I did experiment, and I would judge it to be 86% color correct. The TerraLUX penlight is not cheap. At $20 it a lot for a flashlight, but a very handy gadget.
Ok! thats all I got to say. I am Happy, and my wife is Happy that I am no longer buying too many flashlights. She is not a happy camper about all the broken LCD TVs I am storing in the garage.
I enjoy taking time lapsed photos, and I really enjoy using a Flashlight to paint the picture, to achieve the desired effect. Try it sometime. Its a lot of fun.
But the common flashlights I have tried, all seem to have a HOT SPOT. Rats! this is unacceptable. So I bought any kind of odd flashlight I could locate. My wife thought I was a FOOL! Its is obvious she does not understand the passion that drives a person in Genuine Unscientific Research.
I was looking for a diffused light source that I could stick in my pocket, and use at will. I finally found a solution in an odd object.
A broken LCD TV. Someone gave me one to disassemble, and I discovered there are four layers of film used to diffuse and spread the light evenly. So I disassembled the TV and placed the sheets in front of the flashlight. Holy Cow! it worked very well. Too well. It also works great in front of a strobe for a close-up. And it was Free.
Now my search continued for a Color correct flashlight. A Google search revealed nothing. But then on a Police Tactical store on Ebay, there it was. A miniature Color correct flashlight, that uses two AA batteries and output of 80 lumes.
Yep! I ordered it, and Yep! it has a Hot Spot in the center. But with the diffuse sheets from the LCD TV, it works great. Is the color correct? I am no scientist, but I did experiment, and I would judge it to be 86% color correct. The TerraLUX penlight is not cheap. At $20 it a lot for a flashlight, but a very handy gadget.
Ok! thats all I got to say. I am Happy, and my wife is Happy that I am no longer buying too many flashlights. She is not a happy camper about all the broken LCD TVs I am storing in the garage.