Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/05/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]An interesting analogy is my enlarger, a Saunders/LPL DXL670. Most enlargers have adjustment screws that allow the user to make the negative stage parallel to the easel. My enlarger has none. You would think that this is a liability, except that in the 15 years that I have been using my enlarger, prints made with it are sharply focused from corner to corner. It was made parallel in the factory, and remains so. The absence of adjusting controls gives the enlarger no opportunity to go out of alignment. On the other hand, whenever I took darkroom workshops at a local photography school, I would have to spend the first 1/2 hour trying to get those Beselers into reasonable alignment. Usually with only limited success in the time available (I can identify at a glance a student made print, man they are TOUGH on those enlargers!). Dan C. At 05:39 PM 30-05-99 -0400, Marc wrote: [snip] >it enough times. > >"Higher tolerances and precision"? I'm not certain, but I am sure that >this doesn't matter: the M6 is designed to avoid all of those finaglin' >little adjustments which hurt the M3/M2 and fatally damn the M4 as a users >camera.