I remember I had light falloff on my Meopta enlarger. It disappeared when I removed the filter tray. That wasn't needed anyway with the colour head.
Frits W�thrich Ed wrote: > Mine's about 8-10 years old. I bought it new, and it has the lighted > aperture ring. Sharpness is really, really good. It's just the light > falloff that's a problem. With the cold light tube that snakes all > around, and the diffuser under that, it looks very even at the source. > Of course, it's also possible that the light just passing through the > enlarger opening causes some diffraction at the edges which reduces the > light to the corners. I recently adjust the bellows to the lowest > position (for med format neg - since it makes no difference with the > cold light). That moved the light source closer to the film and seems > to have helped quite a bit. So maybe the problem is not the lens at > all, but the design of the 23CII. Overall, the problem was it it's > worst with the condensers, and got better with cold light, and now is > better still with the bellows collapsed. - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
