From: Jack Fulton (jefulton1@attbi.com)
Date: 01/02/03-08:48:04 AM Z
Bill:
It would certainly be workable. I had a friend years ago who built a wall
in a room and sealed an 11x14 camera in situ. One one side he would take he
and his wife's clothing and flatten them in a vacuum frame he made and
photograph from the other side of the wall. Then would place the developed
film back into the camera w/a glass holder to maintain flatness and in the
vacuum frame would place color enlarging paper. At the rear of the camera
was a bank of 2 (or perhaps 4) foot long fluorescent bulbs @ daylight Kelvin
temp (5000º). He'd make 3 separate exposures using the Wratten gels (Red
#25, Green #58, and Blue #47B).
You could think of building a small ventilated box holding a photo
enlarging bulb and after you load you film into the Kodak camera (which
could be mounted to the wall via a screw device similar to your tripod) the
box would have a piece of light-proof cloth you could Velcro to your camera
to seal of extraneous light. Your camera, though not ideal for such a
situation, would suffice as an enlarging lens. If your camera lens were
symmetrical it would work just fine but you might think of picking up a flat
field copy lens.
then, too, 5x7 enlargers do not even sell on eBay so you might find one
for an extremely good price.
Best
Jack
>> My enlarger is an old Kodak precision that barely manages to do 4x5. I am
> thinking about making an enlarger back for my Kodak 2D 8x10 camera.
>>
>> I think I can figure out how to make a negative carrier, but I'm not sure
> what to do about a light source. I have thought about mounting a light bulb
> in a white box and trying to find some diffusion glass (I wonder how even
> the light would be), or using the el panel from a junk laptop as a cold
> light source (I don't know if it would be bright enough, or if I could even
> remove it from the laptop in working order).
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