Re: threaded porcelain fixture for sunlamp

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From: Sarah Van Keuren (svk@steuber.com)
Date: 09/11/00-09:27:04 PM Z


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>> At The University of the Arts we have space for two old-fashioned 275W
>> screw-in sunlamps with reflectors that are used for making non-silver
>> exposures using 3-dimensional objects. I have looked every place I can think
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> Sarah, you pique my curiosity -- why isn't it possible to simply put a
> bank of regular BL flourescents on legs as far above the paper stage as
> necessary -- and skip the hot, electricity-eating, short-lived, expensive,
> sunburning sunlamps entirely ?????
> Judy
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Judy, we need a point light source when exposing photograms of translucent
3-D objects which a single sunlamp bulb provides. The sharp cast shadows are
more interesting than the effect of a gray day that a bank of bulbs would
create. We do use BL bulbs for cliché-verre contact prints and the sun for
as much as possible, not to mention a pulsed-xenon platemaker and a mercury
vapor unit.

Can't wait to see the new issue on cyanotype. BTW, after I sent my sunlamp
message I thought to look in the back of the last issue and found some
useful leads.

Sarah


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