Hedler

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 fast 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 charactersitics 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.