Re: DIY light source for 10X10" enlarger.

"Thor Lancelot Simon" <tls@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> A fluorescent light source of some kind -- a "cold light" source -- will
> give you the most light for the least power (and heat) unless you really
> want to use a *lot* of white LEDs.  I'm not sure you can get enough
output
> from a 10x10 grid of LEDs you assemble yourself to give decent enlarging
> times with a 10x10 negative, and I am also skeptical that it will be as
> even as you'd get with an array of fluorescent tubes.

This is great, Thor. I appreciate your input.

Are these flourescent sources in round tubes? Or would it be a line of
short 
tubes? And I gather that they would be left on all the time and I'd use
the 
lens shutter, correct?