From: Bill Collins (photo@intrex.net)
Date: 01/02/03-09:52:50 AM Z
Thanks. In my case, the camera lens is a process lens, so it should work better as an enlarging lens than as a camera lens (although it seems to do fine)
Bill
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From: Jack Fulton <jefulton1@attbi.com>
Reply-to: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2003 06:48:04 -0800
>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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