Good morning

[ewt]

Stayed over with pfy last night. This morning I am borrowing mirrorshard's lightbox, which is an Apollo goLITE p1.

Impressions:
-blue lights! Makes everything else - even outside - look a bit yellow.
-fiddly bugger, had to press lots of buttons to get it to stay at full intensity. I could probably operate it more easily if I read the fine manual, but that smacks of effort. What is wrong with just having an 'on' button?
-doesn't seem as bright; not as suitable for use as, say, a working lamp for doing small fiddly stuff as my LiteBook is.
-seems a little smaller and lighter than the LiteBook, and I do like that the stand doubles as cover.
-very slightly noisy - not a big fan noise like the old LiteBook, but not absolutely silent like the newer (but not newest-model) one that hairyears has. Slight high-pitched whine, most people probably wouldn't notice.

Will it help as much as the LiteBook does? I do not know.

Can I be arsed to link-enable this post? No. Google for the damned things yourself.

(no, the userpic does not depict the lightbox. Or any lightbox. It's something else.)

Comments

[mirrorshard.livejournal.com]

I like it a lot, though I admit that the UI does indeed suck.

It might well not be so bright - it's got a very restricted spectral range, about 10nm worth of restricted. I haven't tried using it as a working light, and I doubt it would work well, for that reason.

You're entirely right about the whine - I think it's from the power supply. I leave it unplugged when not in use for that reason.

(Yes, the userpic depicts the lightbox in action.)