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Hi Stephanie,

I own a portable light box which I use for documenting products for my side business, but not my professional library work. My light box is of lower quality than the example you have shared, so please take my comments with a grain of salt. I am also not a professional photographer!

I was very disappointed to discover the provided backgrounds were textured. Unless you really over-expose the image, or do quite a bit of editing in Photoshop, you will see that texture in the final image. For my purposes I found the texture very distracting and ended up making my own custom backdrops.

I also noticed with the model you shared doesn't have any information on the light output of the LED lights (measured in Lumens) and that the colour temperature is only 5400 Kelvins. My dimmable light box has 102 LED lights (versus 99 in the model you are considering). It can be adjusted to a maximum of 1060 Lumens and 6500 Kelvins. I find with many objects I am photographing I still need to drag out my studio lights unless I want to do a lot of post-production editing. 

Sometimes I wonder if it was worth the cost and storage space of having yet another piece of photography equipment!

I hope this helps.

Best,
Evan

                                                                                                                                            

Evan Schilling, MI, B.Arch, B.E.S.

Architecture Librarian

Musagetes Architecture Library
University of Waterloo School of Architecture

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Subject: [ARLIS-L] Portable light tents for photographing books?
 
Hi all!

Has anyone purchased or had experience with using small, portable lighting setups/shooting tents for books or collection objects? Do you have any recommendations (or ones to avoid)?

For context: I'm working to add thumbnail images of our artists' books to our catalog, and looking for a quick setup that we can use when we pull the books for instruction sessions. While I'd ideally like to have HQ images of everything, I've accepted that this is the most likely way we'll get these in the near future. :) 

Thanks!

Best,
Stephanie


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Stephanie Grimm
Art and Art History Librarian and Fenwick Gallery Manager
Chapters Liaison, ARLIS/NA
George Mason University
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