Enlarger - help

Chorcai

I got given an enlarger (sorting out my darkroom/shed soon). I had a look around the net for manual but no luck. Has anyone got one of these models or knows a bit more info on it?

I'll be doing B+W printing.

Krukos Colour 44s

DaireQuinlan

Chorcai wrote: »

I got given an enlarger (sorting out my darkroom/shed soon). I had a look around the net for manual but no luck. Has anyone got one of these models or knows a bit more info on it?

I'll be doing B+W printing.

Krukos Colour 44s

Is that a 6x6 neg holder as well ? Or is it just 35mm ? I could never track down a manual for my LPL enlarger, but they're all reasonably simple beasts, shouldn't be too difficult to work out.

Nisio

I think the bottle opener is for beer!

Chorcai

DaireQuinlan wrote: »

Is that a 6x6 neg holder as well ? Or is it just 35mm ? I could never track down a manual for my LPL enlarger, but they're all reasonably simple beasts, shouldn't be too difficult to work out.

Have to figer out where goes what. They dont seem to line up/go in easy

Nisio wrote: »

I think the bottle opener is for beer!

Har har har

DaireQuinlan

Actually, looking at them larger, that's the filter drawer, with conveniently included grade 2 contrast filter. The big lens I'm guessing is the condenser lens, mine doesn't come out but it looks like this one slides out aswell. The other thing is the negative holder. Has it glass to keep the neg flat ? I'm guessing there should be slots for each of the three drawers. Condenser, then filter, and finally negative is the way mine is set up.

DaireQuinlan

The tin opener thing looks like a 35mm canister opener. Never used them, I've always used those leader extracters instead. I've learned from bitter experience never to mess around trying to pry metal bits from other sharp metal bits in pitch darkness.

Chorcai

DaireQuinlan wrote: »

Actually, looking at them larger, that's the filter drawer, with conveniently included grade 2 contrast filter. The big lens I'm guessing is the condenser lens, mine doesn't come out but it looks like this one slides out aswell. The other thing is the negative holder. Has it glass to keep the neg flat ? I'm guessing there should be slots for each of the three drawers. Condenser, then filter, and finally negative is the way mine is set up.

There is a bit of dust on this, so a good hoovering, would methylated spirits be ok on the glass condenser ?

king angels

Can you mount the work on a wall (without putting holes in it obviously) and then use strobes to light it? Place the strobes at 45 degree angles (you'll need 2) and place the camera at 90 degrees dead center from the work. Fill the frame with the art work. Use a light meter to be sure that the light is even all over the art work - tweak the lights as necessary.
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DaireQuinlan

king angels wrote: »

Can you mount the work on a wall ...

The enlarger the OP is talking about is for enlarging 35mm negatives onto photo paper to make wet prints in the darkroom.