Flourescent lighting arrangement

[budl]

New garage going under roof next week 24dx34w. No cieling and scissor trusses so to get my lighting at a uniform height I'll have to suspend the fixtures. The center bay will have a lift so clearance could be an issue there. I have 9' walls and would like to use t8 strips (t5s would be nice but too much $). The options I am considering are:
1. 8' 4 bulb tandem strips (8 spaced parallel and between the bays and along the walls )suspended at 9' above the floor.

2. 4' 2 bulb strips (12 with the same layout but spaced evenly from front to back)

3. Same as above but using shop lights with reflectors.

The attached 15x20 shop & workbench area is at the front of the garage (has 8' cielings and will have its own lights). The cost of each option seems comparable and I thought suspending the flimsy HD/Loews 8' fixtures might be a pain.

My current 2 car garage has 2 t8 shop lights (1 suspended over each bay) and 1 2 bulb wrap around fixture at the front over my work bench and lighting is barely adequate for an old man like me.

I'm open to suggestions and would like your collective opinions.

Thanks
Bud

 

[Full Size 66]

If it helps I am lighting my 28x32 with 16 foot ceiling. I am using 16 four foot fixtures with Sylvania T-8 bulbs number 850, fixture is 32 watt. The bulbs are described as "noon day sun", to me they are about the most white I could get without getting into the "blue" end of the spectrum. I found a few lighting calculators on line. The calculators did not give a 16 foot ceiling as an option only 8,10,12. I assume this is because 16 and up is considered "high bay". On the calculators I came out within one fixture more or less in either quantity or spacing. I figure I must be close and whatever I can not see I would use a drop light. Any way I look at it I will be in doors and so far advanced from working outside, in the rain, on gravel, in the dark!!!