Re: Gum prints with the enlarger

rosebud (rosebud@why.net)
Tue, 23 Apr 1996 15:22:10 +0000

Philip Jackson stated:

> Maybe he's snuck a 500 watt
> projector bulb into his enlarger. Or taken the coating off his cold light
> head. Maybe he's just using the dark reaction or a flashing pre-exposure to
> take the sensitized material up to it's threshold.

Another scenario could be a high powered flash-tube...say a
4000WS bare tube head inserted where the previous enlarger
head went. I used a flash w/bullet reflector to speed up and
have less heat with a Kwik-Print process. It worked fine, so
I suppose one could rig an enlarger with a similar setup.
Since you don't need the darkness of the darkroom the
spilloff wouldn't become a problem.

Darryl Baird