Photographic light source

DETAILED DESCRIPTION An object of this invention is to provide a photographic light source for the general purpose usage specified above which utilizes the light from ordinary fluorescent white light tubes suitable for household use in such a manner as effectively to suppress the green wavelengths relative to the remainder of the total light reaching the camera lens.
Another object is to provide such a light source with a lighting system so effective as to permit satisfactory color photographing of objects using conventional cameras, film, filter and shutter speeds without time exposure.
Another object is to provide such a light source which is uncomplicated and inexpensive to construct and which does not require expert skill to use properly.
Other objects are to provide such a source in frame form with removable parts for conversion between lighting subjects inside and outside the frame, for use in illuminating transparencies such as photographic slides for viewing or photographing, and for camera support, and with adjustable reflectors for varying light direction according to use.
To attain the foregoing objects, there is provided a boxlike frame with sockets for mounting and electrically connecting for continuous operation a plurality of fluorescent white light tubes distributed about and extending longitudinally of the inner sidewalls of the frame.
Reflectors with light diffusing reflecting surfaces, mounted to extend between the sockets and about the light tubes mounted therein, have a position at which they reflect toward the interior of the frame and one face only thereof most of the direct light from the tubes.
A support is provided for positioning an object to be photographed adjacent that one face of the frame intermediate the tubes and reflectors and exposed thereto and to the lens of a camera directed into the frame through its opposite face.
The interior walls of the frame have light absorbent surfaces and at least a bordering region of the support has a light absorbent surface