That is fantastic. I read through the entire thread again, but still am not sure of a few things. Did you ask Kienzel to make it or did he make it and you are the first customer for a soon to be production unit? Also, will this be your personal enlarger? Did you fund this yourself? Or is this for a group darkroom or a commercial business?
Also, I am envious of that great enlarger, can I get something like that myself? The answer it YES. I checked the Heiland site and, I guess I did not know this existed, but they do make a LED head for us with 'tiny' 8x10 enlargers. I got this picture of a Durst 8x10 light source from the Heiland web site.
When my Zone-6's 5x7 VC head began to flicker - I started to look around...and sensing a hopelessly moving target, cut to the chase - sold a much beloved but underused Hassy 903SWC, and purchased a Heiland VC LED head. Have gotten up to speed with this and all I can say is WOW! Oh, phone's ringing - will chime in again later to explain WOW a little further!
Heiland's biggest off the design shelf is 12X16" DeVere.
Most interesting is his RED LED Safe light...
An 8X10 Heiland has 3200 LED's and costs 3700 euro, so X 4 is 12,800 LED for 20X24" at a cost of at least 15K euro. Glad somebody has the pockets. I wonder about the diffusion material. It will need a couple layers if my experience means anything.
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