Recent content by Hilo

Interesting thread, thanks to you all ! About 45 years ago I got an Olympus Pen FT and have printed its negatives all the time, until recently. At first with a Leitz Valoy II and a 50mm Focotar. Now I still use the Valoy II but with a dedicated Olympus 38mm enlarging lens. The standard lens of...

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A little unfortunate you limit yourself to "prints bigger than 24" on the wide side. Otherwise, there are plenty important galleries that show the work of many wonderful photographers, from the past to the present. To just name two galleries that I am very familiar with: Howard Greenberg Gallery...

Phil, The outside size of the top half that fits inside the lower half is 19.2 cm. The receiving lower half's inside diameter is 19.4cm. In other words, there's 2 millimeter space, to make it possible for the top half to slide into the lower half. I measured my IIc, but it is the same for...

Your AN glass looks okay to me, but I can't see if there's any damage on the lower surface. If not, it should work fine. Is there a lot of humidity where you are, or when you do not use your enlarger, is it cold in the room where you keep it? Turning on a heater just before using a darkroom can...

2 pictures: First the Leitz made holders for the Valoy II and the Focomat Ic. These are actually mentioned in at least one early Leitz catalog. The design to me looks great, but in fact I find the flaps too high. They come a little too close to the lens. The holder for the Ic needs a longer...

Loren, what do you mean when you say this? Leitz did not make an anti newton condenser for the Focomat Ic. They made a seperate AN glass that we can slide over the bottom of the Ic condenser.

This I think as well !

Yes, it is not difficult. The only thing I would be very careful with is bending back the lever. You probably do not know if this lever was already bent back and forth.

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I think about 40 years ago I had the same thought, then decided to always keep the condenser in its lower position and just lower the entire head slowly on to the negative. Gives me a better possibility to correct placement of the negative when needed.

the long guide rod is about 17cm long and precisely 8mm thick. The precise length is not critical. Yes, that hole leaks light. Leitz actually included a white 'stop' that closed off the hole when not using the filter tray. The slot on the other side, when without tray, was covered by a metal...

nope. to the contrary! perhaps Don, you have your Ic upside down !

That deserves a round of applause !!! I love the picture where all the parts are disconnected. Two remarks about your filter tray: the small part that you use to pull it out is bent upwards. It should just stick out almost horizontally. Is that perhaps because the filter tray does not come out...