I don’t know what enlarger you actually have. The D2 and the DII that preceded it are manually focused. The D3 Automega and D4 Auto-Chromega enlargers use a cam specific to each particular lens to operate the focusing mechanism. It might be that you have a D2 head on a D3 or D4 chassis. The head designation does not lable the chassis model. That is usually found on the back of the column.
You can get more information about these on the KHB Photographix site. It lists which dichroic-filtered heads fit. Don’t waste your efforts and money on the older Chromega heads using dyed acetate filters. They’re no longer made and will have faded uselessly by now. A older Chromega head is shown mounted on the D4 on the following page. On the KHB site clicking on the photo of the enlarger model chosen will take you to the page for that model.
http://www.khbphotografix.com/omega/Enlargers.htm
There are comments on the KHB page for the Chomega heads that speaks of the impracticality of converting an acetate-filtered head to dichroic filters. You can read it in the folling link:
http://www.khbphotografix.com/omega/Chromega/Chromega.htm
Can you post some pictures of your enlarger. That way it could be better determined if a Chromega II head will fit and if additional hardware will be required.
Can you post some pictures of your enlarger. That way it could be better determined if a Chromega II head will fit and if additional hardware will be required.
I'snt the II head the same as the as the super? The super will fit a D3.
The Super Chromega D Dichroic was the first of Omega's third generation color lamphouses, and thus the first to use the new dichroic filters. It's testament to the quality of the original engineering that the same unit was in production, virtually unchanged, for over 40 years.
The only revision to this head occurred in 1974 when an on/off switch for the panel lamp was added, and the dial calibrations were changed from 0-150 to 0-168 to more closely match the filter values of acetate color printing filters. These small changes resulted in the unit being renamed the Super Chromega D Dichroic II.
Auto focus is something which can be ignored. It was pretty darn primitive back then anyway.
Seems there are a few options:
-omega chromega ii
-beseler makes a unit that can be adapted to omega
-heiland electronics makes led head that fits omega
-devere makes a led head that can be fitted to omega.
Hello. It was a d3!
Dont laugh at my homemade bellows, I was in a rush.
Well, having used and more solidly rebuilt an Omega chassis, let's just say that I'm now one of those Durst snobs that gravitates more toward real machined components rather than anodized aluminum.
Oh my gosh, Matt - autofocus on one of those old leaning D chassis? That's like a Rolls Royce hood ornament on VW bug. Remember those? Sure, the Chromega series was used a lot by labs for general work, and they were reliable. But precise? Even the Durst autofocus units which cost a hundred times as much back then were often cussed at. I know where's there's a horizontal one for sale right now. I could rig up something far more precise in my own shop today if I wanted, and at a fraction of those kinds of prices. The available technology is just so much further along today, including precision laser distancing; and leftover industrial stepper motor systems are abundant.
Hmmm - I've never even seen a Durst bench model, just tall commercial units as well as horizontal ones. However, I'm aware that they did make quite a variety enlargers over the decades.
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