RE: filmscanners: LED Illumination for Film Scanners

[Austin Franklin]

> > But that's the point...you CAN'T space them to give even illumination.
> > Just
> > a single LED is unevenly illuminated in and of it self!  It's typically
> > a
> > mounded plastic piece, which is really not very consistent.
>
> Nikon are unlikely to be using mass-produced general-purpose .5c LED's on
> a bit of breadboard <g>.

Of course, but that comment was aimed at using them for an enlarger light
source, not the Nikon.