Re: 4x5 Light panels

[Richard Rylander <rlrylander@xxxxxxx>]

Paul Talbot wrote:

> Can the light box you built be readily detached and used
> as a stand alone light pad?  If not, some folks might
> prefer to have the commercially made light pad for the
> dual-purpose functionality.

The backlight is completely self-contained including 4 AA batteries behind the
reflector/lamp assembly (this just lifts out for access).  It attaches to the
Saturn viewer via four thumbscrews (making use of the existing holes in the
semicircle wings that used to hold a curved diffuser).  Just unscrew the backlight
and place a piece of diffusing acrylic over the open end to convert it to a light
pad (normally diffusion is provided by the acrylic attached to the back of the
viewer - I left this in place so that the viewer may still be used in
"steal-the-light" mode).
Richard