might be easier at this point to remove the enlarger head and mount your camera in it's place with a diy light source and film holder on top.
might be easier at this point to remove the enlarger head and mount your camera in it's place with a diy light source and film holder on top.
Is there an easy way to make a DIY lightsource? I have read loads of complicated stuff about overheating LEDs, but What about just a lightbulb in a Black box? My old Meopta Magnifax 4 just had a halogen and a diffusor and it made cracking prints.
BTW, your enlarger looks to be a condenser enlarger, so the question is whether the condensers match the lenses you are using?
I have a LED light source posted in "Converting 5x7 Head to LED Technology?" in this section.
The 300mm Componon S should cover 9.5x. Smaller enlargements will have a larger lens image circle.
I used a 150mm Componon for 4X5 most of my life. It turns out the 135mm does just as well and most (Schneider, Rodenstock, Nikkor) are corrected for bigger enlargements than the 150mm.
One option MIGHT be a horizontal enlarger using the camera -- not the first time that has ever happened.
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