Even huge light panels with a width of over half a metre are only a few centimetres thick and therefore not at all monstrous. The smallest of them have a thickness of just 1cm and can thus easily be moved or stowed away. Modern light panels as are discussed here are indeed compact, slim panels with thin frames and an even light distribution. The term 'box' rather describes the construction: they are heavy, big devices with a large frame and a nothing less than even light distribution. Some of you might still have an old light box in the cellar or on the desk. One talked of light boxes or light tables instead.

On the term 'light panel': light panels exist for a long time already, although calling them 'panels' would have been inappropriate some decades ago. for the viewing of positive films and single images. On this page, we talk about light panels for photographers, i.e.

General information on the term 'light panel'įirst, we will define which sort of light panels will be discussed here, as the term 'light panel' is used in many contexts today: special equipment for viewing radiographs, for the examination of bank notes or for the irradiation of gel substances, and panels with ultraviolet lamps are all often referred to as light panels. The individual slides have, of course, to be placed on a small light panel to be lighted at all. Anyone, however, who has no expensive magazine scanner at hand and thus has to scan in one picture after the other separately will be able to save a lot of time and work by pre-selecting using a light panel.Īnd then, there are people who absolutely want to avoid buying a slide scanner and thus take pictures of their slides using a very good digital camera. Of course, there is the possibility to scan in all existing slides and to make one's choice on the computer screen. Though many private persons never thought of buying a light panel in the whole time they were collecting slides, this becomes a matter of interest as soon as one is beginning to scan in large amounts of slides. The advantages are obvious: one looks at a positive that is brightly lighted by an even light source without this being blinding.

All light panels shown on this site are available in our online shop.

Light table for slides