Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/24
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I have a Federal cold-light enlarger from the '40s that I still use for
occasional 2 1/4 work. I find that a "Designer Warm White" lamp seems to
work for VC paper. The advertised advantage of the cold light was supposed
to be evenness of illumination, but the funky lens on it vignettes below
about f-11. There is a bad picture of it ("My first Darkroom (1965)") on
my site at http://www.widomaker.com/~durling/photo/
Mike Durling
- ----- Original Message -----
From: <Krechtz@aol.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2000 8:03 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Da glow
> In a message dated 10/24/00 11:54:47 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> howard.390@osu.edu writes:
>
> << I thought that diffusion enlargers were
> a relatively recent advent and that all the old stuff was done on
condenser
> enlargers?
> >>
>
> All I can tell you is that my first enlarger, in 1960, was a Federal which
> diffused the light through a small pane of frosted glass. Suppose I
should
> have kept it.
>
> Joe Sobel
>