Changing Up My Darkroom and Home Studio

[Nokton48]

I think we have those bulbs in our dining room chandelier
Is the colour temperature of the light critical for you? If not, they look like fairly standard chandelier bulbs, and as a special purpose bulb, they should still be available in incandescent.
Our chandelier bulbs are about $2 each at the Dollar store

Yeah, I see chandelier bulbs as cheap as 69 cents on Amazon.... BUT nothing E14 (European) thread, and I see nothing but LED type. If I can find some cheap, I will load up the truck as they say. I will be looking -everywhere- in our local stores, maybe some old incandescent stock is still around. And nothing on Ebay right now, but now I know what I'm looking for!

But Thanks anyway Matt

 

[koraks]

Looks like they are DISCONTINUED, being replaced with LED equivilents.

So replace them with the modern LED ones. For a modeling light, it doesn't matter anyway and the lower power dissipation is only an advantage.

 

[MattKing]

What @koraks said,
Remember that if the modeling light controls include a dimmer, make sure the bulb you choose is dimmable.
You may find that the behavior of dimmable LED bulbs takes a bit of adjustment.

 

[Nokton48]

Perhaps in the future I will try the dimmable LED's. I will have eight of the B&H supplied incandescent bulbs in house shortly, these have 1400 hour ratings, so I shouldn't need any more bulbs for quite a while. My immediate goal is to restore the Boxlite to original full Broncolor factory USA functionality. Thanks Guys for responding

This isn't like a Pulso or Primo head with which I am quite familiar; According to the instructions, it has additional circuitry inside, including caps!! I believe. Will open it up with great care.

Broncolor Website Boxlite 40 Bulbs by Nokton48, on Flickr

FEDEX delivered one bulb today, the same torpedo variety. Came from MAC who are the USA Broncolor Distributor. Looks like my other five will be on BACKORDER, hope they will be able to restock these....

 

[Nokton48]

Boxlite 40 Bulbs are Arriving by Nokton48, on Flickr

Broncolor Boxlite 40 Modeling Light Bulbs are arriving. On the left, twelve E14 25W 120V Incandescent, I grabbed a dozen as they were $1.45 each LOL. I think these will work OK with my Boxlite 40, 25W instead of 40W, wonder what difference it will make. Also I'll be using the Boxlite extremely close to my subjects, 25W X 4 may be OK vs 160W??

On the right are three of the 40W 120 Ea14 Incandscent Bulbs, I have one on backorder from MAC, the USA Broncolor Distributor. If they have more of these available I may order additional spares.

Also have four E14 120v 40W LED bulbs coming, I will try those as well too, $4.75 each and the direct replacement for the Incandescent version.

 

[Nokton48]

Success Boxlite 40 Four 25W Incandescents Modeling Output Satisfactory by Nokton48, on Flickr

Four 120V E14 25W gives satisfactory amount of modeling light, I will use this for creating highlights. More bulbs still coming, but I'm able to use this now. And I like it a lot. Beautiful close-up lighting, Broncolor says you can use this for duping, it's extremely lighting. So everything I hoped it would be. Using these bulbs means that I can't see the bulbs dim down, it's constant light even when changing the toggle switch. But at 100W this unit is perfectly usuable as it is.

 

[Nokton48]

Boxlite 40 Test Floating Glass POL E 3.5 30 Macro 100mm C Planar by Nokton48, on Flickr

Here I am "floating" my most used Hasselblad 100mm F3.5 T* Zeiss Planar. Glass Sweep Table White Seamless Paper Background. A Broncolor Balloon low 45 left, illuminates the background softly and pretty even. Broncolor Boxlite 40 8 inches 45 left, on the glass. A small Silver Mirror on a Gooseneck, provides fill camera right. Nex C3 30mm Macro Lens.

 

[Nokton48]

LED Bulbs Broncolor Boxlite 40 by Nokton48, on Flickr

And here are four of the replacement equivilent, incandescent vs LED. Good Good News is that these bulbs ARE the dimmable type. Soon I will try them in my new to me Broncolor Boxlite 40, and see if it is an upgrade I can see.....

 

[Nokton48]

LED's Installed Broncolor Boxlite 40 Back Panel Ready to Test by Nokton48, on Flickr


New LED's installed in the back of my new to me Broncolor Boxlite 40. Now ready to test. I'm waiting for two more Boxlite 40's to be delivered. If this works AOK cool and bright as well as dimmable, I will order a bunch of spares. With Incandescent lights the Boxlite does get warm to the touch. Might be brighter, maybe?

This was lit from below by a FOBA F1000 Bare Bulb, on my floating glass sweep Table. Broncolor Overhead Hazylight with Diffusion Material from Dick Blick Art Supply. Nex 7 36mp Zeiss Touit F2.8/50 Micro Nikkor Polarizer. White Seamless Paper. I'm using four Machinist's Angle Irons in Larger Size to "float" the product and under light it nicely.

 

[Nokton48]

Hasselblad ELM 135 C Zeiss Planar S 1to1 Macro Auto Bellows Stovepipe by Nokton48, on Flickr

Reconfigured the Hasselblad Automatic Bellows to fit the 500 EL/M model, and the 500 C/M as well. With the 135mm C Zeiss S-Planar, and Bellows Hood. Stovepipe Finder and A24 Back loaded with Shanghai 220. Broncolor Boxlite 40 8 inches away 45 camera right. Mirror on gooseneck 45 left for fill. Balloon light underneath glass table to softly light background. Rubber Eyecup on Stovepipe came from a Kiev60 Meter Prism LOL.

Great everyday rig for 6x6 film and now Hasselblad CFV16 Fat Pixel Digital Files.

 

[Nokton48]

Three New to Me Broncolor Boxlite 40s 1600J Recovered two by Nokton48, on Flickr

Here I have all three Broncolor Boxlite 40's up and popping nicely. Still have to figure which modeling bulbs where; the LED 40 Watter definitely "strobes" "flickers" so I think I'll go back to incandescent. I have a ton of 25 watt Incandescents now, so spares should not be a problems. The 40 watt incandescent get kinda warm if running for a while. I did use Pro Gaffers Tape to recover two of the Boxes, the acrylic does crack easily, now taped inside and out so good as new to me.