Originally Posted by
Drew Wiley
Why do you specifically want LED? Right off the bat I detect a potential discrepancy in the ad. If the LED's are allegedly 5000K, it means the light box is not, because you still have a color bias in the diffuser, backing, and quite possibly a quality control issue. Kaiser is certainly a reputable brand, but squeezing this all into such a slim package introduces some real issues which their older tried-and-true, deeper tube technology is known to have ironed out. I mention this because duplicating work is a more demanding application than just slide viewing. If it were me I'd want to at the very least have the right of return if my color temp meter detected something significantly out of whack which can not be easily corrected with filters. Some of these LED lighting devices are more than a thousand degrees K off from the rated specs. Merely light balancing your camera might not correct for certain imbalances. I went to the trouble of making my own duping copystand lightbox using very high quality German tubes and an optical glass top. Quite a bit goes into this kind of project, including special interior paint. The thinner the box, the more some kind of compromise comes into play.
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