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Bill Harvey tries out the latest slit lamp from Haag-Streit and finds it able to provide the brightest and most even illumination with impressive energy efficiency

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As the world comes to terms with the finite energy resource available for the ever expanding demands laid upon it, there will in future be more focus upon instrumentation that can operate to highest standards but with improved efficiency.

It would seem therefore that, to tackle all of these challenges, the time may be right to introduce a slit-lamp with an LED light source. Haag-Streit UK has done just that and recently launched the BQ 900 LED slit lamp (Figure 1) the world's first such slit lamp. I was keen to try it out.

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