Paper flashing question

Trevor Crone said:

It's good to see so many 'flashers' about I was begining to think we were a dying breed.

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and so it was when the alternative processes were replaced by chloride and bromide papers. But ask B&S and they will tell you it is growing everyday. I think alot of people don't flash because they don't understand it. I didn't so I didn't do it till I got a RH design flasher like Les Mcclain indicated and now it do it.

rob champagne said:

...the technique does require removing
the negative from the carrier

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I stop the lens way down, remove the negative
strip with the carrier, lower the condensers, hit
the timer button, then reinsert the carrier with
negative. May not work with all enlargers.

I think I'll give the under the lens diffuser a go.
It's what the paper sees not what we see.
Same for film. Dan

well I just dug out my diffuser and checked. I used two layers of Lee diffusion filter. The specific one is Leelux 400. That is a full diffusion sheet which gives even lighting with no shadow pass through. Some diffsuion sheets will pass shadow(partial diffusion) which you don't want.
Infact my durst modular 70 has inbuilt under the lens diffusion sheet which swings in like the red filter. I suspect there was one on my L1200 but it disappeared before I got it.