From: Judy Seigel (jseigel@panix.com)
Date: 05/15/00-07:44:18 PM Z
On Mon, 15 May 2000, garimo wrote:
> I love all the possibilities. And I see how this how easily this one
> could/would work if all the necessities were in place. The main one I
> lack is the conveniently located wall. This old 5x7 enlarger was
That's not a problem -- simply prop up a piece of plywood or hardboard (as
I recall I used stacks of bricks, or maybe it was books) at an appropriate
distance and pin the paper on that.
The problem is more likely getting the front-surface mirror, which used to
be a regular darkroom item. Now that enlargers got so tall (& darkroom
stuff vanishes even as I write) maybe not. This is a ready made gizmo, no
need to "adjust" the angle. It sits on one side of its right angle, the
mirror is the hypoteneuse.
A
|_ B
The mirror goes from point A & point B.
Judy
> donated to the community college along with a lot of other things, but
> was so heavy (the base is cast iron/steel) several hundred pounds...
> and nobody wanted it bad enough to move it until I came along. It was
> free for the moving. I set it up between a couple other enlargers and
> have just recently started using it with reversed Tmax onto lith film
> for making larger negatives. It's a Eastman Autofocus enlarger. It has
> some mechanical movements which when it is focused is supposed to keep
> it at the same focus as it is raised or lowered. But I think due to
> it's age it is necessary to fine tune the focus after it's raised...
> and a grain finder that is ten to twelve inches taller than the one I
> have now will make the fine tuning so much easier than building another
> wall. ;-)
>
> Hmmm, another idea...the mirror would have to be precisely angled or
> the image shape would be distorted... hmmm, distorted... could be cool
> too...
> garimo
>
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