4x5 full frame glass negative carrier for Omega D2

[ic-racer]

I'm actually just in the process of cutting some new AN glass for the top of two of my Omega D5500 glass carriers. Those have a dimension of 5.0" x 5.125" which might be bigger than the D5 glass?

[rbdub]

I'm actually just in the process of cutting some new AN glass for the top of two of my Omega D5500 glass carriers. Those have a dimension of 5.0" x 5.125" which might be bigger than the D5 glass?

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Not sure about glass sizes but I know the opening size on the D2 is 3-5/8 x 4-5/8.

Where are you getting your AN glass from? What thickness?

All, Here is a print using my homemade glass sandwich carrier if your interested.

[ic-racer]

I have some left-over 5x7 Durst glass I won't use for anything else. Otherwise, I got glass from FocalPoint about ten years ago for one of the other Omega carriers.

[Daniel Unkefer]

I just finished making a DII glass carrier this morning. The "throat" of the enlarger, the part on which the carrier sits upon, is not physically big enough to illuminate the entire 4x5 sheet edge to edge. The rounded corners intrude into the image area top and bottom on one side. The other side looks good. But left or right (you choose) you will get rounded corners top and bottom.

The throat could be "opened up" a bit but I'm not into doing that right now.

Thinking about it some more, it would probably work for 9x12cm and 6.5x9cm sheets, which would be very useful to me.

And of course dust is a big issue.

Back to the drawing board. And using standard DII carriers. I do have a 4x5 glass DII one I have never investigated.

[rbdub]

Daniel,
I think what you’re seeing in the corners is the outer circumference of the condenser above, no? I mentioned it in my post above.

[Daniel Unkefer]

Nope not using condensers in my DII. I'm using an "Omegalite", which is a diffusion head, uses a circular florescent bulb. Very soft illumination.