Omega D3 SCORE!!

[playsk8r]

I picked this up for free from an add on kijiji

came with a 6x6cm negative carrier, 4x5 condenser? box, and everything you see here. I works too!

 

[MattKing]

Congratulations, and welcome to APUG.

 

[ic-racer]

AF enlargers are great to use. Good score.

 

[playsk8r]

Noob question, but can I get it to auto focus with 4x5. What do I need other than a lens cone?

 

[Ian C]

The D3 requires a dedicated linear cam (Omega calls it a “Focus Track”) and a specific lens mount for each lens. You can contact KHB Photographix in Mississauga, Ontario for assistance. It’s the most likely source of cams and knowledgeable advice for Omega Automega enlargers.

Click onto “New and Used Equipment”. The click onto “Omega Enlargers”, “Discontinued Enlargers” on the Omega page. Then scroll down and click onto the picture of the D3 and then see the heading “Autofocus Mounts and Track Kits”.

You must have the correct cam and the lens must be mounted on the correct mount to place the lens at the proper position to work with its specific cam.

http://www.khbphotografix.com/

There are some instructions here about changing the focusing track cams in the manual in this link:

http://www.jollinger.com/photo/cam-coll/manuals/enlargers/omega/OmegaD3andD5.pdf

There are some focus track notes here for the D4, which is quite similar to the D3. These focus track notes should be the same as for the D3 (pages 8-11).

http://www.jollinger.com/photo/cam-coll/manuals/enlargers/omega/Enlarger Chassis D4.pdf

The Automega focusing tracks are designed to work with specific lenses and might not work properly with other brands of lens of the same nominal focal length due to the different flange distances and specific focal lengths (which in some cases differ by as much as 4% from the nominal focal length) from one lens make and model to another. This is noted in the D4 manual above.