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Stefan Patric

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From: Stefan Patric <n...@thisaddress.com>

Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2009 18:14:48 GMT

Local: Wed, Jun 3 2009 4:14 am

Subject: Re: Compatible Cold light heads for Omega D5V

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On Mon, 01 Jun 2009 17:03:15 -0700, Lew wrote:
> Can anyone give me a run down of what's available, what to look at &
> what to avoid? Thanks.

The only manufacturer I know that's still making cold light heads is
Aristo (http://www.aristogrid.com/cold_light_chart.html). They're sure
to have one that will satisfy your needs.

And a word of advice: whichever one you get, get the light tube balanced
for variable contrast paper. V54, I think. The VC tube will work with
both VC and Graded types of paper. There's even a tube balanced for
color papers, but if you intend to do color, too, I would recommend that
you just get an Omega color head. It will work just fine with b&w and
it's a diffusion type head just like most cold light heads.

Stef

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