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Someone posted this a while back. Don't recall who or if they are still active on the forum.

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My 8x10 Durst head does not go real low, so my lens 'set' when enlarging small format negatives on that enlarger is based on one size longer than usual.

35mm = 80mm lens
6x6/6x8cm = 135mm lens...

Very nice!!

I think the best way is to enlarge on to 4x5 B&W Negative sheet film. Otherwise, yes, transparencies are very difficult to print and really only good for projection these days, since the demise of...

The FA's focus screen is a very fine fresnel, as fine as a screen on a 35mm camera. You can look at a reflection on the back of the screen to see the fine circular lines, otherwise the fresnel is...

Computer meters are pretty complicated, in fact they even list "Measured Value Does Not Look Correct" in the troubleshooting section. I have never seen that before in a Sekonic manual.
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The bug or virus shows up on my browser also. Again, it asks if I want to leave the page and it is very slow.

Horseman FA originally came with a plastic ground glass/fresnel combination screen with the "Horseman" name in the lower right. Over that was a clear glass with framing marks. Did you buy your camera...

Horseman FA originally came with a plastic ground glass/fresnel combination screen with the "Horseman" name in the lower right. Over that was a clear glass with framing marks. Did you buy your camera...

Any plating is very expensive these days. For example I'm restoring a Mercedes 560SL currently. I had about $2000 of plating done over the winter. For example these two pieces were $125 each to be...

The silver shows as white/gray on a black background with wetplate. Conventional printing paper, the silver shows as black on a white background.

You can prepare and present negatives with the...

With ground glass focus, if you tilt the back (which I do all the time) the infinity stop is not in the right position. So, on my non-rangefinder Horseman FA (with no rangefinder but with infinity...

You used to be able to get replacement lamps at the link below. The lamp in my Aristo 1414 that fits in the condenser slot of the Durst 10x10 head broke during shipping and I was able to get a new...

I have been trying to do the same for over 30 years and still trying. It is not easy.

Adjust the ASA dial so that a film renders a photograph of a uniform target 0.1 density when underexposed 4 stops.
BTW 0.1 density is 1/3 of a stop. So you can use the meter to check the negative.

I think 1/3 of my film gets exposed with images of my dogs, rather than the children. Now that can get dangerous...:p

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Just tilt the camera upward to frame the subject. Correct the converging verticals when printing. Almost all large format enlargers can do it.
Here is an image from a 210mm Symmar-S on 8x10 format....

Not many lenses will work with that enlarger. Maybe locate the lens first before moving forward.
An 8x10 negative carrier can be made from a sandwich of two pieces of negative carrier glass and a...

Finding your cone length will be easy if you already have the lenses. You can hold the lens under the lensboard area and get an good idea of the flange focal length needed for the cone to obtain...

That is an auto focus enlarger. Find something different if you are not interested in auto focus.
If it were me I’d get it and use it with its intended purpose as autofocus. Admittedly, the last...

I have been saving digital image and music files since the early 1980s. I even wrote image analysis software at NIH in the early 1990s.
To preserve my files I currently have functional Mac SE30,...

I was going to say Massimo Vitali and Clyde Butcher.
The art collection where I work displays a number of Vitali's works but apparently the descriptions are misleading, leading me to believe the...

With the 4x5 back you can use some long lenses and get some good close-ups. Be careful to get the front standard square to the back; that 8x10 camera won't have detents to center either the front or...

My negatives will be fine, they are easy to store and manage. However, my wife only took digital files of the kids. About 15 yeats ago she put all the files on an external drive. Who knows what...

I never use the half 8x10 darkslide I made because i wasted too much film not knowing how much, if any of the film had been exposed when the full darkslide was in place. Now I expose the full sheet...

Technical perfection is a must. Who wants a gray, wrinkled, stinky, fixer laiden print with uneven borders and grain-motion artifact?

Some of the shorter Compomom_S lenses can easily be reassembled with lens elements not fully seated (and not crooked either) and still with plenty of room to affix the retaining ring. Making it seem...

Almost $5k for the 8x10 models...prices seem the highest since the brands inception.

Why are we here?
Self-assembling molecules.

Thanks for the picture. Sorry for being so stupid, the power supply for that head indeed indicates "Control Box" on the front.
Probably not hard to reproduce with generic components as interneg...

Can you post a picture of the light head currently on the enlarger. That would help figuring what is missing.

Last batch of high contrast film I tried to use for continuous tone reproduction, I did one of two things with standard developers. One was to dilute the developer over about five tank fills on the...

Great save!
I was just reading about springs in the on-line shutter repair course yesterday. You found a good solution.
Also, the way I look at it, shutter speeds are never ‘off,’ they are always...

I have never seen an Ixodes scapularis tic in real life, but CDC claims six were identified in the area but no Lyme Disease in last two decades. Either way I’m always on the lookout for one.
We are...

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Above is a link to a post showing some of the enlarging lenses I used...

I believe the 5108 is a fully mechanical enlarger that requires no electronic supply or control box.
If the light source mounted on the enlarger is non-function due to lack of parts, you might...

“The” technique to increase the impression of more depth of field with a view camera is to align the focal plane with the subject. If the subject is a complex shape or space, then align front and...

This is sad, I was looking for some pictures of C252 enlargers and came across this one in Ukraine. Don't know what happened to it? Hope he can get it back or get back to it.

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Welcome to the exclusive "Freestanding Enlarger" club. ;)

Keep us posted. Getting a new production enlarger these days is a big deal.