BBonte
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I would like to move into LF photography, but have not the appropriate enlarger? Can the WISTA be used as enlarger ? The lens is 105 cm I think.
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Bernard
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Bernard
Dear Bernard,I would like to move into LF photography, but have not the appropriate enlarger? Can the WISTA be used as enlarger ? The lens is 105 cm I think.
yours
Bernard
I would like to move into LF photography, but have not the appropriate enlarger? Can the WISTA be used as enlarger ? The lens is 105 cm I think.
Bernard
More common than the Linhof enlarging heads (they also made a condensor head) is the Graflarger back, which you can usually find cheaply. You can upgrade a Graflarger to a current Aristo V54 bulb for use with VC paper or some people just add a CC40Y filter to old cold light heads for that purpose or just print on graded paper, so that it's not an issue.
The downside of these old cold light heads is that they don't have heaters, so exposure tends to vary quite a lot unless you leave it on all the time and use something like a black card over the lens for the exposure, or use a compensating timer with a probe like the Metrolux, or alternately keep your exposures on the long side.
Aristo lists bulb replacement for the Graflarger as a standard operation. I suspect they'd charge about the same for a Linhof upgrade. I print mostly graded, so I haven't worried about it, but if I were to start using the Graflarger more often, I'd get another probe to use it with my Metrolux.
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