Emil
Member
Hello. I have just bought an enlarger for the specific purpose of printing 6x9 negatives. Unfortunately, the condenser lens unit in the enlarger is for 6x6 only. With this unit, the sides of the image fade off rather drastically.
I guess I could look for the correct condenser (The enlarger is an IFF Duogon /S, which I have been able to find nothing about online, so spare parts are hard to come by I think)
But I am more interested to hear if there is a way around this. Could I just remove the condenser lens, or will the image quality suffer terribly? Could I put it on some spacers to bring it closer to the lightbulb, and thereby create a larger column of light?
I will appreciate any help I can get, this project is very dear to me. I have bought this enlarger and set up a darkroom, only for the sake of 24 negatives. These negatives were taken by my father 50 years ago this winter, and the prints I make will be his gift for christmas this year.
Thank you,
Emil
I guess I could look for the correct condenser (The enlarger is an IFF Duogon /S, which I have been able to find nothing about online, so spare parts are hard to come by I think)
But I am more interested to hear if there is a way around this. Could I just remove the condenser lens, or will the image quality suffer terribly? Could I put it on some spacers to bring it closer to the lightbulb, and thereby create a larger column of light?
I will appreciate any help I can get, this project is very dear to me. I have bought this enlarger and set up a darkroom, only for the sake of 24 negatives. These negatives were taken by my father 50 years ago this winter, and the prints I make will be his gift for christmas this year.
Thank you,
Emil