James Roettger
Elite Cafe Member
I finally bought a GRS LED ring light after years of using side lamps. It seems my old side lamp set up may be the better. Even though the ring light can be switched to emit light from one of four quadrants at a time it seems to more or less be a layout blaster. Basically the light bounces straight back into the viewers eyes as it comes from directly above. A pencil and white water color layout is greatly faded and much harder to see. I previously used two cheap office lamps with 23watt daylight colored compact fluorescent bulbs. I also added a cheap LED clip lamp from Target to the mix. These lamps were all placed at the side and light skimmed the surface rather than bouncing straight into it. Side lightling reveals much better clarity and contrast. It seems the new ring lamp will be of only occasional use and I would not buy another.