Abstract: A photographic light source has a boxlike frame with sockets for mounting and electrically connecting, for continuous operation, fluorescent white light tubes of conventional type distributed about the inner sides of the frame and extending longitudinally of them. Reflectors with light diffusing reflecting surfaces are mounted to extend between the sockets and about light tubes mounted therein, the reflectors having a position in which most of the light from the tubes is directed and reflected into the frame and mainly toward one face of it. The mixture of direct and reflected light reflected by a subject within the frame, or outside that face of it, toward a camera directed into the opposite face of the frame, provides effective lighting for color or black and white pictures, with the predominant green of directly reflected light from such tubes desirably suppressed. Adapters are provided for using the frame for slide viewing and photographing.