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Who we are... 1945 Otto Hedler has founded Hedler. He started with a photo studio and the distribution of photographic products. Between 1961 until 1972 slide projectors have been produced and binoculars have been distributed under the Hedler brand. The Hedler light units successful story started at the photokina in Cologne, October 1968. Otto Hedler introduced the first photo and film forced-air cooling light unit to the public. Way back this has been a "little" revolution: designed for continuous operation, several security features have been incorporated and fastly it has become a wanted and well-proven lighting tool. The use of a forced-air cooling, the housing with its characteristical shape made out of plastics, the safety glass and the U-shaped Tungsten halogen lamps, all of these features have been recognized in a way that it suits perfectly for a great number of professional imaging tasks. Over the years, several reflectors, softboxes and reflex umbrellas have been designed additionally. Needed to adjust the characterstics of the lighting and to provide the photographer and filming people with a highly variable lighting tool. All this is the basis for the three main features of the Hedler Systemlicht lighting system, that are characteristic for our system up to now: quality, safety and variability. To be able to respond to our customers demands, we developed several different Tungsten halogen light units, based on the very first Hedler light unit. In 1994, we started to produce Hedler HMI-light units. With their flicker-free daylight they have been a more than welcomed, valuable addition to our Tungsten halogen light units. Both production lines are still manufactured with several light units, which are subject to continuous improvement. Besides these, we are producing compact flash ligh units, which are well-known to be comfortable and reliable to use and their highly useful configuration. From the very first beginning, Hedler light units have been designed to withstand the rough working conditions of professionals, in other words: they have to work as a reliable lighting tool. We believe, to produce high quality you have to use high quality components. Hedler light units are assambled of such high quality components, they are mounted by hand in Germany and every single light unit is individually tested before it leaves our factory. The result - a high quality product for which we give you an 36 month warranty. The decision what kind of lighting should be used, depends not only on your personal taste, much more often the needs to realize a photographic or filmic task "dictate", which lighting equipment has to be used. Advantage of the Hedler lighting system, whatever you (have to) use, the original Hedler accessories - reflectors, softboxes and reflex umbrellas can be attached to nearly every Hedler light unit because of the UniAdaptSystem! Digital Imaging has changed a lot of things within the whole imaging process. What has remained to be the same - often you need artificial light to create the perfect lighting conditions for your ideas. Whatever you are going to use - Tungsten halogen light, daylight or even flash light - for you light has to work as a tool, it has to be variable. It has to help to realize your creative imaging ideas. And as highly reliable and flexible to use tools, Hedler Systemlicht light units are used in all fields of Digital Imaging. Reliability and flexibility are important, comfort while working is important too: further development has made it possible, to build our light units even more compact, one of the things our customers have been asking for. The new fanless light units New DLSRs are often capable of taking even HD-video. Our customers, who are interested in taking videos with original sound recording, have asked us for fanless light units. Here they are: with the HEDLER H10, the HF65 (both Tungsten halogen light units) and the DX15, a daylight light unit with a highly efficient bulb, Hedler offers fanless light units which suit perfectly for DigitalVideo with original sound recording. By the way: they are even perfect for macro photography - no forced-air cooling means no air movement caused by the lighting gear. Ideal for small and lightweighted items which tend to move easily. Advantage? Remembering the shallow DOF? Now you got it! Our goal for the future is to continue developing and producing lighting equipment for professional photographers and videographers. Compact, robust, reliable, powerful and flexible to use - simply quality made in Germany Thomas Hedler

Slide projectors and binoculars from HEDLER - advertising roundabout 1968 Advertising has been that way long time ago: the HEDLER Ventilux 1250 The 70ies - make it colourful: the HEDLER JET-Lux Flash lighting with 250 Ws: the old HEDLER Compact flash... ...and the modern one with 500 Ws: the latest HEDLER F500 The modern, efficient daylight: the HEDLER DX15