Maybe Jonathan could enlarge a little on the incorrectness of what I'm about to say, if it's incorrect...if Robert's going to do "a little" portrait photography, and not get involved in terribly long sessions, why couldn't he use a couple of work lights from Home Depot and do a manual white balance every few frames for color correctness? I mean, people work reasonably comfortably in their garages with work lights, and I know work lights get hot if they're on for a long time, but if you set up and maybe even rig some modelling lights with cheap clamp-on standard bulbs (so you can see your shadows and so on) and then turn on the bright lights when you're ready, do the white balance, then shoot...and if the whole thing is done in fifteen minutes, it shouldn't be too bad. A couple of pretty powerful work lights can be had for seventy-five bucks or less, complete with stands, and you could get a could get a couple of small clamp on lights for less than 20 bucks to use with 60w bulbs as modelling lights...I don't see why it wouldn't work, and it'd cost you less than $100. It'd be a problem wiith film, no doubt, because of white balancing problems...Another question: can Canon cameras like Robert's use older Nikon flashes?
JC