Re: Adventures with cheap proofing lights (long)

[Jeff Lowenthal <photoman2@mindspring.com>]

At 10:12 PM 5/11/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>Others on this list have far more experience than I do with color balanced
>lights, but my understanding is that Ott was a Doctor who originally had the
>lights made to help patients with Depression.
>
>I also understand that he had others make the lights for him and he never
>made them himself.  Some of the vendors I believe were Phillips and
>Sylvania.
John Ott was a photographer who developed sophisticated time-lapse systems, 
first as a hobby (he worked for a bank, I believe) and then as a vocation, 
giving lectures and producing time lapse films for various clients.

In 1958 he published "My Ivory Cellar," which describes "The story of 
time-lapse photography." He was not a "doctor," and had no "patients" but 
was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science by Loyola University for his work 
in time-lapse photography of biological subjects.

He did, however, have theories about the use of full-spectrum lighting and 
its affect on living things.

Jeff Lowenthal

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