Re: filmscanners: LED Illumination for Film Scanners

[Isaac Crawford <isaac@visi.net>]

Austin Franklin wrote:
> 
> > http://ledmuseum.home.att.net/1990.htm
> 
> BTW, thanks for that link!  I did find it most interesting, and certainly a
> great source for information on LEDs.  I would never have imagined that
> someone would devote so much time and thought to LEDs.
> 
> As a side note, when looking through my LED file, I found some brochures
> that showed there were blue filters for LEDs back in at least the mid 80's.
> Now how well they would work, I don't know, but they were apparently
> available.

        I don't know if this is related or not, but check out the Chromira
printer by ZBE http://www.zbe.com/... It uses LEDs to produce 425 ppi
prints onto RA4 materials. The prints are awesome to say the least...

Isaac