I have two Janomes and really, really love them. BUT as I said before in this thread, my latest one has a very dim bulb which they think is an improvement over the others because it doesn't glare. I'm getting to the age where I need brighter instead of dimmer, so I had to purchase a sweet little light from Amazon.com and clamp it next to my machine. Problem solved. However I think it's real dumb of them to mess with the light bulbs when the one they had before on all their models was perfect.