Digital BW, The Print

> > Well, I'd argue that it's really diffuse...it's still point
> light...simply
> > putting a diffuser over a point light source doesn't make it a
> diffuse light
> > source in the traditional sense, like a cold light...does it?
>
> diffuse is diffuse. That said the size of the light source will
> make a large
> difference.  If you make a very small diffuse source, it will act almost
> like a point source or lens focused lamp.

Well, I still say diffuse isn't necessarily diffuse.  Diffuse, as far as a
light source for film projection goes, MUST give a completely even field
over the entire field, and I do not believe the LEDs of the Nikon scanner do
such.  I do know that my cold light heads do, and that the light source on
my Leafscan does too.

If diffuse was diffuse, with respect to this subject, then a single
incandescent light bulb would be diffuse by your definition.

Austin