Opemus 5a manual

[Glenn Mathison]

Glenn I have a question about your lensboard. What kind is it ? Make material ? And how/where did you get it ? I have some reccessed 39mm tread lensboards for my Opemus. Pressed sheetmetal and "turned" alluminium. The one type wont fit my El-nikor and the other wont fit the enlarger. it hit's something inside.
Regards Søren

Do these pics help? Better than trying to describe it. Seems to be made of aluminium. No markings of any sort.


Glenn

 

[TPPhotog]

Yes please! Just in case there are any other tricks I don't know about. Thanks Tony.

Glenn

Glenn, hopefully I'll get a chance to scan and post them for this weekend. I'll let you know when they are up

 

[Soeren]

Yes they help alot.
Seems like those aren't as deep as mine. Can you focus at "infinity" or how lake can you maek your prints.
Regards Søren

 

[Ole]

By a staggering coincidence, the Opemus 6 lensboards (I assume they're the same on the 5?) also fit on Durst Laborator 138. That makes it easier for me to keep them both fed

I have never got used to using the double-line focus myself, despite both my enlargers having them. Always used the grain focuser... But I have checked, and they seem at least as accurate as the grain focuser!

 

[TPPhotog]

Manual Now Posted

Well I have had a quiet evening and too tired to wet print so the Opemus 5a manual is now posted here. Hope it's of help so someone ... anyone

 

[buh]

Thanks TTPhotos.
I'm going to read it immediately!

 

[Glenn Mathison]

Bad URL

Well I have had a quiet evening and too tired to wet print so the Opemus 5a manual is now posted here. Hope it's of help so someone ... anyone

Tony, the URL for page six is wrong. You missed the dot between page06 and jpg. I got the page by putting the correct URL in rather than using the link.

Other than that all is well. Thanks a lot.

Glenn

 

[TPPhotog]

Hi Glenn, Oooops sorry about that it's old age setting in again The link is now fixed and hopefully it will be of use.

 

[hgalo]

About manual

Hola Luca, go ahead and buy it if the price is good
I have one and it is a very good enlarger. I used to have the manual from a web page but I cant access now I only have one page left
it was scanned from a user's manual and place in the web but now the link is gone. It is not very difficult to use
good luck
Hugo

First of all, if this could be a good choice for me. It's my first enlarger, I have no experience, but I would try to print b/w photos.
I red in some messages here that exists manual in eletronic format but I don't find it in the web.
I thought it's a good idea to read manual before buy only to understand if this enlarger it is usable by newbie person.

This enlarger was build in 1982. Do you think I have some problem to find some component if I have to repair it?
This enlarger has Meopta Anaret 50mm. This is a good lens to start, what do you think?


Thanks.
Luca.