Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/01/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 08:50 PM 1/22/98 -0800, you wrote: >Hello all. I'm having a very frustrating time with my camera show >purchase. I bought a Durst A600 enlarger to compliment my Focomat 1c. I >can not for the life of me get it to make prints smaller than 8x10. I have >a 50mm Componon Shneider lens on it and it is sooo frustrating. I was just >wondering if anyone can help me out. It does not let me focus under the >size 8x10. Over the size, it's fine. I can make big prints with it but >nothing under. > >Any help would be appreciated. >Thanks >Gabe > You need a cone to mount the lens on. To move it closer to the paper. Your Durst focus mount just won't let the lens get close enough to the paper (far enough away from the film) to focus. I don't know if Durst made one, but something like that is easy to fabricate. Jim