Lowel-light
My
first Lowel lights were the Tota-lights because they fold up to
a small shape. In their folded form they are totally protected and
travel well (all over the world, have never lost a Lowel Tota-light
in over twenty-five years). I have used Lowel Tota-lights even outside
in the tropical jungles of Belize, Central America. At the remotest
Maya ruins in Mexico, Honduras, and Guatemala, Lowel Tota-lights
have aided in recording, and hence rescuing, information about ancient
cultures.
Lowel
lights are used world wide. When I was photographing in Australia,
I saw Lowel lights in the leading museum of that far away continent.
When I was visiting in Denmark, the PhaseOne studio included Lowel
lights.
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Lowell
Lights tungsten lights for studio photography
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When
I went to San Francisco to pick up the Better Light Dicomed Digital
Panorama
Rollout Camera System I did not have any Lowels with me, since
they were momentarily all on location in various other countries.
Michael Collette said I could borrow his lights. I was pleasantly
surprised to see that he had Lowel lights! His were the DP series,
several levels of sophistication above the entry-level Tota-lights
(but also correspondingly larger). These Lowel DP lights were used
during the historical first rollouts of Maya vases ever done with
digital format.
Thus
I was very pleased that Mr Marvin Seligman, president of Lowel-light
Manufacturing Company, sent a nice selection of all his top-of-the-line
lights and light stands. Archaeologists cannot use the larger kind
of studio lighting both because our field camps have no space and
because overhead lights have the habit of falling on fragile artifacts.
Lowel lights are ideal because they are small, and can be used safely
alongside the artifacts.
Mr.
Seligman included two DP series, two Omni-lights, and one nice Lowel
Rifa-light, a soft box arrangement, and a set of stands, all neatly
packaged in a single suitcase. If I had such great equipment as
a student my earlier pre-professional photography would have been
better.
Lowel
lights (especially the Tota-series) are ideal for student budgets
as well, but even when I was flush with funding from publishers
eager for top quality photographs, I still turned to Lowel lights
for my outfit because everything had to be portable, and had to
survive the rigors of real-life traveling photography
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