Bill Burk
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One thing always leads to another. Realizing it’s good to have an enlarger with crank elevation, the D2 came down from the rafters.
You wouldn’t know it because I haven’t brought it up, but the negative carrier I had been using was warped and the mask was just black lantern slide tape. The one I used before that was just mat board cutout by hand.
Knowing the whole reason for getting the D2 down was to support accurate focusing, it was time to start using a good negative carrier. Looking on eBay, they’re all about forty dollars. Tempted by the unmounted slide carrier with a grayscale slot.
But just in case, I looked in my box of Omega parts. Amazingly (or not when you think about it), there was a very nice 35mm carrier in the collection.
I must have chickened out the first time around or thought it would ruin its value. But there was a carrier as good as any on the market.
I only do this once in a while… so figured a video would be worthwhile. Here, for your enjoyment, you can watch me file a negative carrier.
After finishing the video I started counting strokes by the hundred. I did go a little faster but probably took a thousand more strokes. On the long side I could use the whole file, which went faster. I dressed the corners with a triangular pin file. The shiny cuts are painted now with matt black model paint. I was too careful, if I were to do it again I would open it wider on the one inch side (where progress was slow I didn’t cut far enough). But done is done and this’ll be my carrier starting 21-JUL-2021
You wouldn’t know it because I haven’t brought it up, but the negative carrier I had been using was warped and the mask was just black lantern slide tape. The one I used before that was just mat board cutout by hand.
Knowing the whole reason for getting the D2 down was to support accurate focusing, it was time to start using a good negative carrier. Looking on eBay, they’re all about forty dollars. Tempted by the unmounted slide carrier with a grayscale slot.
But just in case, I looked in my box of Omega parts. Amazingly (or not when you think about it), there was a very nice 35mm carrier in the collection.
I must have chickened out the first time around or thought it would ruin its value. But there was a carrier as good as any on the market.
I only do this once in a while… so figured a video would be worthwhile. Here, for your enjoyment, you can watch me file a negative carrier.
After finishing the video I started counting strokes by the hundred. I did go a little faster but probably took a thousand more strokes. On the long side I could use the whole file, which went faster. I dressed the corners with a triangular pin file. The shiny cuts are painted now with matt black model paint. I was too careful, if I were to do it again I would open it wider on the one inch side (where progress was slow I didn’t cut far enough). But done is done and this’ll be my carrier starting 21-JUL-2021