I attempted what i thought was an inovative tactic in a game this weekend and i'm curious to see how others would have ruled on it. Please note i have no intention on chalanging the ruling made i just wonder how others would handle it. To the point!
We were in a temple complex and fighting a darkstalker with a level 4 party (rolled stats average about 30 points i think) my character attempted to defeat it's deeper darkness ability by going outside and reflecting sunlight down the straight corridor into it's are using a small steel mirror and an enlarge person spell the dm ruled it didn't work.
(I also looked into using a silent image of a mirror but figments can't have real effects so that was quite rightly ruled as a no)
Personally as a dm if a player of mine had tried it i would allow the mirror to have worked due to0
1/ its a cool idea (but it's my idea so i may be biased) &
2/ the party had no other method to deal with it
If you are interested we did eventually beat it by lucky rolls and the slightly too good stone call spell from the apg.
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edit: A reflected beam of sunlight is a non-magical source of light and does nothing to a darkness or deeper darkness spell. If you split open the roof to admit direct sunlight, it might have increased the ambient light level (without light sources) to bright light and allowed you to see.
Dark folk are very difficult to deal with at low levels and unprepared.