Hope you don't mind me butting in to your conversation with Terry
I run a two year part time Photo -Alt course at Kingsway Collage Kentish
Town, London, We have been using a sunbed for the past three years, It was
purchased [at what I think you call a flea market and we call a junk shop]
for the princely sum of Twenty Pounds Sterling =A320-- it has being going
like a bomb ever since,the average exposure is about three mins, being a
large illumination area we can expose up eight 10inch * 8inch prints at the
same time now that is really motoring the students love it, lots of great
prints quickly.
>1.) I know I probably can't afford to buy a sunbed, or any other mercury
vapour light source at this stage of the game
and
2.) As I was describing to Ron Silvers today at the Toronto Historical
Photographic Society Fair (a.k.a. photo + rummage flea market), I absolutely
love the idea of building my own unit, with UV fluorescent bulbs. I need a
little electrical/carpentry et al know how! :)
No offence Terry, I'm just working within my means.<
It can be cheap cheap :-)
pete