Anyone enlarging multiple formats 35mm and under?

Just curious: is anyone out there enlarging multiple formats 35mm and under (35mm, half-frame, 16mm, 110, 8x11, etc.)? If so, which enlarger do you use?
Being as the shortest focal length on my Super Chromega is about 63mm-75mm (with bellows compacted as far as they can go), I am thinking of adding an enlarger for 35mm and under. One thing that does seem logical would be an all-in-one negative carrier, so as to avoid hunting around for individual fixed-format ones, which seem hard to find. Would a Focomat IC suit this purpose, for example? Thanks in advance for the input!

Although I haven't taken to enlarging under 35mm, I have noticed neg carriers in the smaller sizes for one of my 4x5 enlargers available. I just can't remember for which enlarger tho. I know that Calumet carries alot of neg carriers and I'm sure you can cruise Ebay and find neg carrier ads in the sizes you need that will tell you which model enlarger their for.

foto-r3 said:

Would a Focomat IC suit this purpose, for example?

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Not really. Try a sunk panel and 28mm lens on a Meopta Magnifax. JUST works!

Cheers,

R.

I haven't made anything under 35mm since I was in the school (a while ago), mostly 110. I cannot remember the enlarger's brand but we used 35mm metal masks and the carrier had adjustable blades, so it could be an old durst. It was relatively hard to focus accurately the projected image because the point of focus was often next to the end of the focusing rail.

The majority of my enlargements are from 35mm, with a few 6x6 MF thrown in. I've been reprinting some old family photos on 126 film and an occasional 110, though. I've got a Philips PCS130. They used to make masks for all of these formats, but I don't have the 110 or 126 masks. I made a custom 126 mask out of scraps of photo paper, and it seems to work well enough for me. The Philips negative carrier also has adjustable blades, although the shadows they cast are blurry ones, so these blades are really only useful for blocking the bulk of the stray light, not all of it.

For my 126 enlargements, I use a conventional 50mm lens, the same as for 35mm film. On the rare occasions when I've done 110 enlargements, I've used a 37mm Mir-1 camera lens for an old Zenit M39 camera. This has worked fine for me, although it's not designed as an enlarger lens. I'm sure it's introduced some distortions, but probably less than were introduced by the original cheap Sears 110 camera used to take the photos originally.

I do some half frame 35mm, as well as larger formats. My enlarger is a Beseler 45 with the Ilford MG600 head on it (also have one with the Beseler condenser head). When doing half frame, I use the Beseler NegaTrans carrier, which has masking thingies to allow you to mask for half frame. I use the 50mm lens with half frame. I don't think that I have ever enlarged a half frame negative bigger than 8x10, so the 50mm has worked fine for me

foto-r3 said:

Just curious: is anyone out there enlarging multiple formats 35mm and under (35mm, half-frame, 16mm, 110, 8x11, etc.)? If so, which enlarger do you use?
Being as the shortest focal length on my Super Chromega is about 63mm-75mm (with bellows compacted as far as they can go), I am thinking of adding an enlarger for 35mm and under. One thing that does seem logical would be an all-in-one negative carrier, so as to avoid hunting around for individual fixed-format ones, which seem hard to find. Would a Focomat IC suit this purpose, for example? Thanks in advance for the input!

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I do quite a bit of small format work. I use Minox and 16mm. I Use an Omega D5500 and have dedicated masks for these formats, however, anything over 4x5 enlargement requires the flatness that only the glass carrier can produce. I use the same glass carrier for 35mm, 16mm and Minox. I use a 45mm APO High Mag. Schneider Componon-S for 35mm and 16mm. Currently I am using a Rokkor CE Minolta 30mm lens for the Minox (good things are said about this lens on /www.subclub.org/)

My D5500s do not have adjustable negative stage alignment and for 4x5in negatives this is ok. At the very high magnifications needed for Minox, the negative stage needs more precise alignment to the baseboard. I made adjustable false baseboards for the enlargers. These are adjusted with set-screws on each corner. Used in conjuction with the laser alignment they allow the exacting alignment required for very high magnification.

Other things to watch are that the Minox negative is exactly in the center of the image circle. I set the easel frame right in the geometric middle of the image circle, then fiddle with the negative in the glass carrier to get the negative in the right spot.

So, basically I have my second D5500 set up for the smaller formats, with the 35mm mixing box and glass carrier. The 3 lens turret goes on the other D5500 that I use for 4x5, and MF.(there was a url link here which no longer exists)

Also, the D5500 has rescessed lens cones for my 45mm and 30mm lenses.

I do enlarge Minox to 16x20 with this setup. It is VERY tedious!

I could do it all with a single D5500 but to do the small formats I would need to swap out the mixing box, swap out the 3 lens turret, swap out the negative carrier and perhaps do a re-alignment with the laser.

ic-racer said:

Currently I am using a Rokkor CE Minolta 30mm lens for the Minox (good things are said about this lens on /www.subclub.org/)

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Now you remind me, that's what I have. Not 28mm at all! (See post above)Sorry.

Cheers,

R.