Chris C
26-Aug-2009, 22:30
Hey guys.
I'm a little bit stuck with this. I have a Homrich & Sohn 4x5 enlarger which I've been using for a few years now for b&w prints and found it great. The time's come for me to start wanting to do my own colour printing too as I'm a little sick with expensive prints coming back from the lab not like I imagined they'd be, which begins my problem.
When I bought this enlarger it came with this Agfa head which also has a big wooden adapter (almost a mixing chamber) to allow it to be used on the enlarger to print colour medium format negatives. This is all well and good, but I want to print 4x5 colour negs!
My question to you is, is this colour head suitable to modify? I had considered just extending out the white 'cone' from the bottom, which currently stops at just over 6x6 with diffused glass. Would this run me into light fall off problems or any other unforeseen issues?
Starting anew with a colour enlarger has of course crossed my mind, but they're few and very far between here in NZ. Since I bought this enlarger, I've only seen 3-4 others pop up for sale, and I think only one of them was already set up for colour work, and that's in 4+ years. Shipping from anywhere would most likely be prohibitively expensive too, so I'd quite like to use what I've got if at all possible. Am I barking up a tree I should just be lifting a leg against, of is this something that would work?
Hopefully these pictures should give clues to the validity of this attempt.
http://i32.tinypic.com/33ynk3m.jpg
http://i26.tinypic.com/28aq5pt.jpg
Thanks for any insight you can provide.
I'm a little bit stuck with this. I have a Homrich & Sohn 4x5 enlarger which I've been using for a few years now for b&w prints and found it great. The time's come for me to start wanting to do my own colour printing too as I'm a little sick with expensive prints coming back from the lab not like I imagined they'd be, which begins my problem.
When I bought this enlarger it came with this Agfa head which also has a big wooden adapter (almost a mixing chamber) to allow it to be used on the enlarger to print colour medium format negatives. This is all well and good, but I want to print 4x5 colour negs!
My question to you is, is this colour head suitable to modify? I had considered just extending out the white 'cone' from the bottom, which currently stops at just over 6x6 with diffused glass. Would this run me into light fall off problems or any other unforeseen issues?
Starting anew with a colour enlarger has of course crossed my mind, but they're few and very far between here in NZ. Since I bought this enlarger, I've only seen 3-4 others pop up for sale, and I think only one of them was already set up for colour work, and that's in 4+ years. Shipping from anywhere would most likely be prohibitively expensive too, so I'd quite like to use what I've got if at all possible. Am I barking up a tree I should just be lifting a leg against, of is this something that would work?
Hopefully these pictures should give clues to the validity of this attempt.
http://i32.tinypic.com/33ynk3m.jpg
http://i26.tinypic.com/28aq5pt.jpg
Thanks for any insight you can provide.