Cool! Ain't it grand when an idea comes together and you can make it happen just by using things around the house? When are we going to see some photos of your darkroom?
Paul Stenquist wrote: > > Well, I went for the second level table with the reversed enlarger. I was > ready to head for Home Depot to look for something that might serve as a > pedestal mount or, alternatively, a low table that I could use with the > enlarger reversed. Then I looked out my patio doors and spotted an old > piece of patio furniture: a coffee table sized table with a glass top and > metal framework. It was part of a set of patio furniture that is long > gone, and it's become somewhat of an eyesore. However, it's stoutly built, > 22 inches wide, and 30 inches long. It stands about 15 inches high. It > turns out to be the perfect height to serve as a second level enlarging > table. With the enlarger mounted on the forward edge of the primary table, > which stands about 30 inches high, I can rotate it to face outward and > print on the 15 inch high table. This gives me a range of print sizes from > 11x14 to 20x24 with the 100mm lens and 6x7 neg. Of course I can use a > longer lens to pring smaller.. Rotating the enlarger column 180 degrees > (as the Omega allows), I can print from about 4x6 up to 11x14 on the > primary table with the 100mm lens. The enlarger is bolted solidly to the > primary table, which is attached to the foundation of the house. It was a > simple matter to align the surface of the lower level table with the > enlarger head. All it required was one .060 inch shim under one leg of the > table. I also found I can print 16x20 and still adjust focus without an > extension. For now, that's as big as I'm going to go, so I'm in business. > As soon as my 135 lens arrives, I'll see how it all works out with 4x5 -- Shel Belinkoff mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.earthlink.net/~belinkoff/ http://home.earthlink.net/~belinkoff/darkroom-rentals/index.html - 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 .
