Ah? There's a difference between those? I thought they're both interchangeable. Dont remember in the US, but other places, used them interchangeably
@baachtrika thats a good suggestion, thanks.
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The detergent/soap for the machines is chemically very strong and often includes a lot of bleach. It produces very low amounts of foam.
The detergent/soap for hand washing is very gentle/mild, so as not to irritate hands. It produces very generous amounts of foam.
If you put hand washing detergent in a machine, it will foam so much that the foam will often escape out through the machine's seals, and start to "foam" your kitchen! Don't ask me how I know how that looks.
I'd be very concerned with how it's packed for shipment. I recently packaged just the head for a Beseler 23c and it took a really big box. I don't know if it's best, for this enlarger, to remove and pack the condensers separately within the box (that's what I did with the 23c).
You may want to inquire about professional packing (if available) or at least walk through how the seller plans to pack it.
It's a very simple machine to clean and rewire. If you want you can bypass the column wiring entirely. New wire from the lamp socket to a male plug. That's what many makers did. The lamp goes directly to the timer and that allows the timer to control the lamp for both focus and timing.
Disassembly of the bits & pieces is very straightforward too. To make it simple remove & clean one piece at a time. If you don't fiddle with the adjustments I'd just check the thing out when it's back together.
From the picture: that is quite an early version 1C.
I can tell because it has the old metal redfilter and it has an early (design) plug into the column.
Like Baachitraka says, the easel will lock onto the baseboard, which I do think to be original as it has the typical Leitz feet and the lever for the locking clamp
No worries - dishwashers arent big here, mostly hand-washed dishes, so the liquid would be something like Vim or Axion(?) or such.Yes, sorry – I meant the soap for washing dishes by hand . .
The Focotar lens with this age enlarger would be the 5cm f4.5. Which is ok, but you need to stop it down twice for sure, to get sharp grain in the corners. The 50mm f4.5 is later and a little easier to get sharp corners with. Then there are still two later versions, a Schneider made 50mm f4.5 with a larger frontglass (but not a faster aperture), on the barrel's side is written Focotar 50/4.5. And the latest version, the Focotar-2 50/4.5 (also written on the barrel) which is really very good.
It is about 50 euros, right?
Any lens from 45mm to 60mm will autofocus on it, as long as it physically fits.
I cleaned with contact lens lotion. It does a very good job.
You may be right, but for lenses other than 50mm you would have to change the automatic focus adjustment. Which is not all that simple. What plays there too, is that at one quarter going up the column there are two holes about 3cm from each other. You stick a pin in the lower hole when you print with the paper on the baseboard, you use the pin in the upper hole, in combination with an easel like is shown in the picture of this enlarger (this Leitz easel is that 3cm)
I doubt if the Schneider Componon S, with the lever on the side, would fit in the 1C. But over the years I have used different lenses, other than the Focotars, and they worked fine: Nikkor, Rodagon G, Minolta CE and Meogon . . all in 50mm.
One thing you should be aware of is that this early version 1C does not have a filter drawer. Later versions have this drawer which slides from right to left to open, and it is positioned between bulb and condenser. Assuming you will use multigrade filters, you have two options where to place your filters in this 1C: below the lens, or simply on the condenser. Opinions vary which is the better option. Because I do not like to keep opening the lamp house all the time, I prefer under the lens. But others work fine putting the filters on the condenser. Leitz USA made a filter holder for a while which replaces the red filter. Difficult to find. It is not difficult to use an other brand filter holder, I have some made by Beseler that work fine. They do need a slight modification, like drilling a hole and a longer screw. Even I, with two left hands, could do that!
Don't let the above throw you off, the 1C is a fantastic enlarger. Mostly because of the system to press down the negative with the condenser (just one glass to keep clean), the beautiful negative holder which gives a nice black border if you want it and the ease of changing magnification, for which the autofocus was really made . . .
Noted.€ 50 is a nice price. The screw thread for the lenses is M39, many will fit, but not all. For sure the EL Nikkor 50/2.8 fits.
You need a 2cm extension ring with these lenses - 17675 is the code . . .
You may be right, but for lenses other than 50mm you would have to change the automatic focus adjustment. Which is not all that simple. What plays there too, is that at one quarter going up the column there are two holes about 3cm from each other. You stick a pin in the lower hole when you print with the paper on the baseboard, you use the pin in the upper hole, in combination with an easel like is shown in the picture of this enlarger (this Leitz easel is that 3cm)
I doubt if the Schneider Componon S, with the lever on the side, would fit in the 1C. But over the years I have used different lenses, other than the Focotars, and they worked fine: Nikkor, Rodagon G, Minolta CE and Meogon . . all in 50mm.
One thing you should be aware of is that this early version 1C does not have a filter drawer. Later versions have this drawer which slides from right to left to open, and it is positioned between bulb and condenser. Assuming you will use multigrade filters, you have two options where to place your filters in this 1C: below the lens, or simply on the condenser. Opinions vary which is the better option. Because I do not like to keep opening the lamp house all the time, I prefer under the lens. But others work fine putting the filters on the condenser. Leitz USA made a filter holder for a while which replaces the red filter. Difficult to find. It is not difficult to use an other brand filter holder, I have some made by Beseler that work fine. They do need a slight modification, like drilling a hole and a longer screw. Even I, with two left hands, could do that!
Don't let the above throw you off, the 1C is a fantastic enlarger. Mostly because of the system to press down the negative with the condenser (just one glass to keep clean), the beautiful negative holder which gives a nice black border if you want it and the ease of changing magnification, for which the autofocus was really made . . .
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