Bright circle from enlarger lens
I have just acquired a Fuji 450 M-D enlarger with a Beseler dichro head and a 135mm Nikon lens. This is my first large format enlarger so bear with me please.
With a 4x5 neg in place the image on the easel is mainly a bright circle in the middle of a faint rectangle.
I can focus the image but at any aperture and with the head at any height and the focussing bellows at any extension, the bright circle remains.
Does anyone have any idea what could be causing this and how I might change it.
There is nothing between the Beseler diffusion screen and the lens.
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does it have a 35mm mixing box installed?
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No, nothing between Beseler head and enlarger lens.
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The mixing box is inside the head. Did the gear come with any manuals?
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Patrick M
I have just acquired a Fuji 450 M-D enlarger with a Beseler dichro head and a 135mm Nikon lens. This is my first large format enlarger so bear with me please.
With a 4x5 neg in place the image on the easel is mainly a bright circle in the middle of a faint rectangle.
I can focus the image but at any aperture and with the head at any height and the focussing bellows at any extension, the bright circle remains.
Does anyone have any idea what could be causing this and how I might change it.
There is nothing between the Beseler diffusion screen and the lens.
"Beseler dichro head" can mean many things. Need a picture of the configuration.
"...nothing between the Beseler diffusion screen and the lens." Where and how are you positioning the negative? Is the negative holder Beseler or Fuji? Is a mixing box present or absent? If present is it Fuji or Beseler and what are the dimensions? Is it installed upside down?
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It is a Beseler 45S head.
The negative is in the Fuji holder.
The mixing box is integral to the Beseler head and is labelled '4x5 diffusion chamber'; it is installed as per images in the Beseler handbook.
I believe this set up - just as I have it - has been used previously to print 4x5 negatives.
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I believe some guys on this forum could solve this in seconds if you posted 3 or 4 different cell phone snaps of your enlarger as it is set up, including the illumination pattern on the underside of the mixing box, with enlarger light turned on and also the illumination pattern at the baseboard that you speak of. Lets not make this a riddle.
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I have just been on to the previous owner and the problem is solved. The condensers were removed for shipping and I had not reinstalled them because I was not familiar with the inside of enlargers. I am now familiar with the inside of this one!
Many thanks for all help.