Very exciting progress! I’ve just cobbled together an extremely crude yet effective mockup of an 11x14 horizontal enlarger and, using a large 5600K florescent “sunlamp,” have projected (through my 305 G-Claron) a 40x60 image which, upon close inspection with a focussing magnifier…looks great!
Re-inserting my “lightweight” 11x14 camera back into its original drop-bed housing, I then removed the back and replaced it with an 11x14 contact frame/negative sandwich, pressed and held in place with the sunlamp. Here’s a front view:
And a rear view with easel in the background:
Another front view with a dark cloth cowling:
And, finally, here is a (very dense negative) 40x60 projected image (not quite visible on my desktop, but sharp sharp sharp!)…slightly skewed as my iPhone was held (necessarily) a bit off-center:
Onward Ho!
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