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Where can I get plans to build a lightbox for viewing 35mm slides?
Jean - 02 Dec 2003 07:39 GMT
> New to this group.
> Where can I get plans to build a lightbox for viewing 35mm slides?
Sorry about this, but if you need plans to make a "box" you probably
shouldn't be trying to build one.
Jean
zeitgeist - 02 Dec 2003 07:56 GMT
> Where can I get plans to build a lightbox for viewing 35mm slides?
how fancy do you need?
You could go to a hardware cavern and buy a 'shop light' or other fixture
that is meant to hang over a kitchen or pool table, turn it upside down and
place a sheet of white plastic over it.
I bought a table someone built, its literally a box of 2x8 wood, with a
sheet of ply wood underneath and a sheet of plastic on top, and two shop
lights in the middle. a couple holes for ventilation. they got cleaver with
legs, they slide into a small square on each corner so I can tilt it and
remove the legs for storage.
the key concept is a sheet of white plastic with a light underneath,
Bob Monaghan - 02 Dec 2003 23:50 GMT
check "blueprint series" by Petersen photo mag series in library, they had
lots of do it yourself items like this and other build it yourself stuff
the quickie answer is turn a fluorescent fixture upside down, put a sheet
of frosted plastic on it, there you are ;-)
more related info at http://medfmt.8k.com/mf/studio.html
hth bobm

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Lionel - 10 Dec 2003 12:49 GMT
>check "blueprint series" by Petersen photo mag series in library, they had
>lots of do it yourself items like this and other build it yourself stuff
>
>the quickie answer is turn a fluorescent fixture upside down, put a sheet
>of frosted plastic on it, there you are ;-)
<grin>
That's how I made one for myself when I was a teenager. I bolted all
those things into a wooden box (formerly the case for an old TV), & I
got years of use from it.

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