Re: Wouldn\'t You Like To See...
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Doug:
$400 worth of batteries?! Why so much? Don't all of your lights have batteries in them already? I would imagine this little stunt would only require a few minutes of "burn" time ... right?<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>[/QB][/QUOTE]
Leaving batteries in flashlights for longer than a few months is generally not a good idea except those that use lithiums and those flashlights that see regular use (so you can easily tell when they're dead and *must* be removed). So 60-70% or so of them are full not of batteries, but of air.
Turning on & carefully setting up 200+ flashlights would probably take at least 30 minutes, so a certain methodology would be used: D and C cell lights first, then AA lights, then AAA lights, then incandescents, then coin & button cell lights in order of increasing current consumption (resistored lights first, unresistored last); and finally 123 lithium incandescents. That would pretty much assure that every light is operating at nearly new brightness by the time the photographer started shooting.
Regarding those pictures of my flashlight inventory on the shelves; not all lights I have here are shown in those photographs. I'd have to go around and retrieve all of the various daily-use lights, lights from my wheelchair, the first-aid kit, bedside, in first-access drawers, on keychains, those kept in various other locations throughout the house for emergency usage, and those few still in their packages on the "To Be Evaluated" list.
All total, that would probably be around 20 additional lights.
Finally, although I could use my camera's self-timer, that only gives me 10 seconds to trigger it and then position myself in the shot. A professional photographer would be the preferred option, and even better, a photographer with a better camera. 0.8 megapixels just isn't enough to resolve all of the light sources properly; as you can see by my pictures, even in good conditions, my camera still produces grainy, fuzzy photos.
Happy now?