Want to Buy WTB: Beseler Negative Stage Guide

The little scale that attaches to the condenser head and shows you the appropriate height for the neg format you are printing.

If you can't find one and decide to make one. let me know and I can scan mine and email it to you. It should be a pretty easy fabrication.

or . . .

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Condenser-P...006?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_2&hash=item58ab201ebe

You can easily make one from thin metal, plastic, wood, even cardboard. Here are the indicator mark measurements for the different size negatives, all from the LOWER of the two screw holes:

4 x 5--one inch up
3 /14 x 4 1/4--2 3/16" up
2 1/4 x 3 1/4--3 1/4 " up
2 1/4 x 2 1/4--4 1/4" up
35mm--5 3/4" up.

Keep in mind that the precision required here is not very great. Actually, you can enlarge all the smaller sized negatives with the head set at 4 x 5, although that doesn't make greatest use of the enlarger's light intensity. If in doubt, just fudge a bit on the side of a bigger negative.