Re: [Leica] Focomat V-35 Question

[Pablo Kolodny <pkolodny@fibertel.com.ar>]

That's the way I work since almost ever.
Actually I started working that way many years ago when started up making
color prints.
And my darkroom is also bright, full of Kodak OA safelights.

 
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Pablo Kolodny
www.pablokolodny.com

> From: "Ted Grant" <tedgrant@home.com>
> Reply-To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 09:55:08 -0700
> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Focomat V-35 Question
> 
> Matt wrote:
>>> .   However, I am wondering if Focomat V-35 came with a
>> red filter you could slide across to block the light coming via the lens
>> so as to adjust the position of the paper before printing. <<<<<
> 
> Hi Matt,
> I haven't used a red filter on any enlarger for years, as a matter of fact I
> took the red filter thingie off my present leica enlarger sometime around
> '72. ;-) No I can't find it I think it eventually got thrown away.
> 
> Here is the plan:
> 
> Put neg. in enlarger
> darkroom white lights out,
> lots of darkroom yellow lights on
> turn on enlarger
> adjust paper easel and enlarger head for correct enlargement and focus
> turn enlarger light out
> place paper in easel  hit timer button for enlarger light, make exposure
> take print to tray and develop.
> 
> The problem with many darkrooms is the owners really believe they have to be
> "dark!" Like you can't see anything once the white light has been turned off
> and they don't have to be like that. It's like being in a very very
> yellow/brown darkened dungeon and doesn't help your eyesight at all!
> 
> They can be as bright as you like by raising the light level to a point as
> long as it  doesn't fog the paper. In my darkroom visiting photographers
> usually remark, "WOW! is it ever bright in here!" Well it should be as
> bright as the paper can handle before fogging.
> 
> And that's easily ascertained by putting a piece of paper by the enlarger
> table with some coins on it, expose for a few minutes with just the darkroom
> lights on, then develop as though it's a print. You shouldn't have coin
> marks showing. If you do get coin shadows after three minutes development
> move the lights higher or farther away or cut back the bulb wattage inside
> the yellow light.
> 
> But a darkroom should be bright enough to see what you are doing in any part
> of the room and if it isn't it should be.  I always end up with a headache
> after any length of time constantly straining to see in the dark.
> 
> Save your money, don't buy one of those red filters you don't really need
> it. Buy a roll of film instead.:-)
> ted
> 
> Ted Grant Photography Limited
> www.islandnet.com/~tedgrant
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Matt Kollasch" <matthew.kollasch@uni.edu>
> To: "LUG" <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
> Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 7:01 AM
> Subject: [Leica] Focomat V-35 Question
> 
> 
>> Now that I have my darkroom up and going, I have a question about my
>> Focomat V-35.  I bought by V-35 a few months ago and fired it up last
>> night. Works fineOn other
>> enlargers I have used this has been a useful tool.  There appears to be
>> a place to mount on the V-35 (a rod w/ a screw on the end of it).  If it
>> did come with one, I'd be interested in getting pointers on where to buy
>> one.  I will also be looking for a 3rd party solution.  Thanks.  /matt
>> 
>> 
>