My old Speedotron heads have modeling lights, and I do admit to using just the modeling lights on occasion with black and white, and when the lighting needed to be really close. But they are too yellow for color, even tungsten-balanced color.
Now, when I need really close lighting to provide that shadowless, enveloping effect, I use a shoot-through umbrella or a translucent scrim, sometimes mounted on its own stand, with the light as far back as needed.
But it's been so freaking long since I've had a use for studio lights that I'm not even sure they would work if I plugged them in.
Rick "who likes the sound of that gigantic capacitor charging up" Denney
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