Re: light source for very small prints?

Usually the warm up period is arround the 3 minutes, 5 to get to its best.
If you turn it off and on quickly it might not restrike, you have to wait
some minutes ´til the lamp cools down. So the best thing is to leave it on
as long as you are printing.

Agustin Barrutia
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric Maquiling" <eric@maquiling.org>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca>
Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2004 8:52 PM
Subject: Re: light source for very small prints?

> On 02/08 17:55, Gordon J. Holtslander wrote:
> > self-ballasting mercury vapour lamp. It is a mercury vapour lamp that
can
> > be screwed into a standard incandescent socket.
>
> Cool! I think this is what I'm looking fer...something simple.
>
> > exposures unless you are willing to leave the lamp on for extended
periods
> > of time.
>
> How long do you think I need to keep it on to "warm up period?"
>
> >
> > Its also necessary to use a fixture capable of handling the power
consumed
> > by the lamp.
>
> What's that mean? :)
> --
> Eric
>
Received on Sun Feb 8 23:41:32 2004