Yes Shannon, the Dichro II head is a diffusion head. The bulb (bright!) shines through the colour filters (or not, depending on the dial setting) and thence into a white mixing chamber (sized for different formats, though I've only ever used the 4x5 one) and finally through a diffusion panel that looks a lot like a piece of milk-white Plexi. (acrylic). I'm not familiar with the DeVere, but the Dichro II is definitely diffuse. Dave -----Original Message----- From: pure-silver-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pure-silver-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Shannon Stoney Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2007 11:18 AM To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [pure-silver] diffusion head for omega D5 I am thinking of getting a diffusion head for my Omega D5 enlarger. Right now it has a condenser lamphouse on it. My goal is to duplicate the scale that I get with the Devere 108S diffusion head. That enlarger is often on the blink, like right now, and it would be good to have another one that has a similar or identical light. apparently you can get dichroic lamphouse for the D5, but I can't figure out if it has the same kind of light as the one on my Devere. How could I find out? One of the manuals that I have describes the Super Chromega D5-XL Dichroic II lamphouse as having a 250W quartz halogen light source. Does that mean it is a diffusion head? --shannon PS This question is not a joke. ============================================================================ ================================= To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org and logon to your account (the same e-mail address and password you set-up when you subscribed,) and unsubscribe from there. __________ NOD32 2661 (20071115) Information __________ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com ============================================================================================================= To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org and logon to your account (the same e-mail address and password you set-up when you subscribed,) and unsubscribe from there.