The Beseler 45M I bought came with a dead lamp. OEM was a ?100? Or 150? Watt opal frosted lamp. Is there a good LED bulb that's a screw in replacement? Do I need to worry about color temperature of the bulb with multi grade paper? I tend to prefer 6500K bulbs---daylight balanced because otherwise paintings started outdoors look wrong when I finish them inside. Also, it makes studio work with Ortho film work better/more like outdoors. But maybe it's wrong in an enlarger for multi-grade paper.
Eventually, I'm planning on making a diffusion head or three for this enlarger: 4x5 and smaller, 5x7 and 8x10 based possibly on an LED panel. So I can print from bigger negatives, etc.
Thanks.
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