Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/10/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 03:09 PM 10/6/99 +0000, Paul Klingaman wrote: >paper. Regardless, I'll keep the 23C around to print medium format on >occasion. There is not much info. about the V35 and its available light >sources on the net, so I'd appreciate anything you all could contribute. You don't need cold light with the V35. There is no way to adapt any other light source. It's got one of the best light sources around already. It's smooth like cold light, unlike other Leica enlargers that are semi-condenser. What the V35 has is close enough to the same as cold light, so don't worry. Like I said earlier this week, the drop off of illumination on the V35 was tested by Modern Photography to be 1/10 stop from center to edge. Can't want much better than that from a 35mm enlarger. The one thing you'll probably want is some extra high grade paper to go with your VC paper ( I used Oriental VC and then Oriental's grade 4 paper - which was like most other paper's grade 5) to compensate for the light being so soft that the V35 dialed up to it's highest setting was like grade 3 1/2 or so. Of course, I processed my film for work, which had condenser enlargers - 23C actually - and so when I would run the negs through my V35 at home, the film would probably be considered a bit underdeveloped for that kind of light. YMMV. Eric Welch St. Joseph, MO http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch There are two kinds of photographers: those who compose pictures and those who take them. The former work in studios. For the latter, the studio is the world.... For them, the ordinary doesn't exist: every thing in life is a source of nourishment. -Ernst Haas