Anyone have any favorite work lights? I have two swing arm lights (one with a magnifying center and fluorescent ring light and one with both fluorescent ring light and bulb center). But they don't seem to be enough in my dark office and I'm not crazy about dialing up the room lights.

Thoughts appreciated!

I use one of those small halogen desk lamps. I have it mounted fairly high on top of my spray booth so it can shine over the rest of my work surface.

I just use my film lights, a square LED fixture for overhead, it draws little power and produces no heat. It is adjustable from 2400 kelvins to 5600 kelvins (bright daylight). It also is dimmable. It doubles as a photography light too! I also have a swing arm and a clamp-on, both of which have 6000 kelvin CFL bulbs. If you have halogen lights you can always put some blue gel filter in front of it for a more pleasing "daylight" effect. Gel sheets can be bought online from various sources. I use Amazon and Filmtools mostly. HTH.

Hi,

I use an Actulite Task Lamp, this is a polarised lighting system and is very easy on the eyes. It also helps with getting a 'true' colour when painting.

http://www.actulite.com/task/index.html

I used to use daylight bulbs in an Anglepoise lamp, but I find this lighting system much better and it has reduced my eye-strain considerably, so I can work on fine detail for longer.

All the best,

Paul

I work in my garage. I have (4) 4' long florescent fixtures on the ceiling. I then have (2) florescent floods that use daylight bulbs that look down on my work area. I then have (2) desk/hobby lamps on swing-arms for close work. One of those is not daylight, and is a much lower temper bulb (more yellow). But overall, it's nice.

@jmarles - what kind of film lights do you have? I am a photographer so dual use equipment is a good thing! I also need something to clamp onto the shelf above the workbench.

Thanks!

The flourescents I have are basically home-made Kino Flos. Regular Home Depot ballast, KIno head cables and harnesses, on a home built fixture. If you have a room or shop flouro light you can just stick some Kino tubes in. The LED's are available in many sizes, from hot shoe camera mount types all the way to large stand fixtures. Here is a link. You can get really cheap LED hot shoe types for around 30 bucks. In hindsight I should have just got an LED PARcan from any DJ supply house, much cheaper. The clamp light is just your basic Ikea clamp-on, with the "snake" neck, I simply stuck a film quality CFL in there. If you already have a single socket type fixture with a 5/8" "baby" receiver you can just get a pony clip with baby pin from Filmtools, etc.

http://www.digitaljuice.com/products/products.asp?pid=2308

http://www.filmtools.com/pony-clamp-3201-baby-pin.html

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/816816-REG/SP_Studio_Systems_SPCSBRACK_Ceramic_Socket.html

http://www.skaeser.com/servlet/the-932/LED%2Cvideo-light%2Cvideo-lighting%2CLED-light%2CLED/Detail