> > It could well be that the LEDs are far enough from
> > the focal plane so that they appear diffuse. That's
> > purely a guess on my part.
>
> That makes sense. LEDs typically have a lense of some kind... Do they
have
> a diffuser over the light source that you know of? I still have my
druthers
> about using LEDs as a film scanner light source though, but I really
haven't
> researched it any, and it is interesting.
LED's can be manufactured to a wide variety of specifications, and that's
what makes them so versatile.
A couple of years ago someone on the darkroom newsgroup was working on an
LED light source for enlarger heads, utilizing clusters of high-intensity
LED's. I don't know what happened to the project, but at the time a lot of
people were really excited about the technology and the initial results
showed a lot of promise.
