Thor - People are giving these away here in the States... I've received several and passed them along to my young students. The one I kept is a four lamp 80 watt Portatrace with beautiful build quality, extremely even illumination, and enough brightness to blast through even the darkest densest chromes... If you have a local chapter of Freecycle where you are, I'd suggest you give it a try... Eric Goldstein -- > -----Original Message----- > From: Thor Legvold <tlegvold@xxxxxxx> > To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Sat, Jan 2, 2010 11:44 am > Subject: [rollei_list] Re: OT: Light table > > Ola Carlos, > > thanks for the links - the first one i've read, and was the reason I asked > about Acculight vs Porta Trace. > > The second I had not been able to find, I was looking for the manufacturer > website for both brands. I found Acculight's owner brand (Bretford), but > there is no mention of light boxes on the site. > > Anyway, I probably can't go wrong with either. > > Best, > Thor > > > On 2. jan.. 2010, at 15.00, CarlosMFreaza wrote: > >> Thor: >> I think the silence for a question could have a lot of >> explanations. f.e.the members have no experience using both lightboxes >> to do a right comparison or to write a comment. I'm using a lightbox >> made in home by the photographer that sold me the Kaiser enlarger, he >> sent me the lightbox as a present with the enlarger, it's very well >> built. >> Anyway this is an URL with a little article about to Photos evaluation >> and a large thread in Photo.Net commenting about loupes and lightboxes >> including those you mentioned and several others: >> http://photo.net/learn/evaluation >> >> This is the web site for one of the light boxes >> http://www.gagneinc.com/lighttables.html >> >> The other one is mentioned in the photo.net thread. >> >> Carlos >> >> 2010/1/2 Thor Legvold <tlegvold@xxxxxxx>: >>> Does that mean there isn't any appreciable difference between the two >>> lightboxes, >>> >>> or just that New Years Congratulations masked my original inquiry? >>> >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Thor >>> >>> >>> On 31. des.. 2009, at 23.48, Thor Legvold wrote: >>> >>>> Any thoughts about the Porta-Trace vs the Acculight? >>>> >>>> Or pretty much the same difference? >>>> >>>> Happy New Year!!! >>>> >>>> Thor >>>> >>>> On 26. des.. 2009, at 17.33, Kenneth Frazier wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Dec 26, 2009, at 10:56 AM, Elias Roustom wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> t's 5000K Color Correct, not 5200K, and I got it at B&H or >>>>> >>>>>> Adorama - >>>>>> they're available just about everywhere >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> I have the same one, works fine, inexpensive. >>>>> >>>>> Ken --- Rollei List - Post to rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx - Subscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'subscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org - Unsubscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org - Online, searchable archives are available at //www.freelists.org/archives/rollei_list