So now that I've finally moved to a place where I can set up a kitchen darkroom, I've gotten my new-to-me Beseler 45M enlarger all nice and ready for work. I needed A 35MM carrier and lucked out at 99 cents plus shipping on the auction site. But it's such a disappointment. Put a negative of the standard 24x36 size from my Nikon F, and the window in the carrier isn't big enough for it. It crops off at least 1/16 of an inch in both directions. I had already gone through the expense of getting the plain prism finder for my F because I demanded 100% coverage. But with this negative carrier cropping like that I may as well be using most any other SLR that is incapable of 100% coverage. Now I'm going to have to go buy a file and spend a whole Saturday filing out the window in the negative carrier.
And another thing: Is it too much to ask that an enlarger manufacturer make a carrier where the film registration pegs are 35mm apart, so I don't have to bobble the negative all around? Seems like the only decent negative carriers I've ever owned were the ones I made by hand out of my RC airplane wood stockpile.
And another thing: Is it too much to ask that an enlarger manufacturer make a carrier where the film registration pegs are 35mm apart, so I don't have to bobble the negative all around? Seems like the only decent negative carriers I've ever owned were the ones I made by hand out of my RC airplane wood stockpile.
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