Show me your latest darkroom prints

Here are some decent scans.. excuse the strange scanner glass artifacts. need to get a new flatbed (epson v200 is getting a tad tired). These were done on a Focomat IIc.

Fujica GS645W, Ilford HP5+, D76 1+1, Ilford Multigrade MGIV RC Pearl 8x10, Dektol.

'331 by Joe Olson, on Flickr

'327 by Joe Olson, on Flickr

'328 by Joe Olson, on Flickr
 
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Hexar Rf/Zeiss Biogon 35mm/Neopan 400/Foma VC/Agfa Neutol WA/Focomat 1a
 
Taos Pueblo New Mexico
Leica MP, Summaron 35 2.8 Tri-X
IMG_7143 by [url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/156629749@N02/
 
Erik van Straten said:
Great print, PRJ. Is this with a prewar Focomat?

Erik.
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Thanks Eric.

I am not sure when it was made, but I think it was at the brink of the changeover from the 1a to the 1c. The lens that came on it was an Elmar from 1951 (I think?). Been a while. Whatever year it was when i looked it up was right before or after the 1c came out. Not a bad little enlarger. I picked it up for a dollar plus some shipping. I mainly use it for proof prints. Mostly 5x7 quickies. I think I get some light falloff which I am just noticing. If you have any ideas on that I am all ears....
 
I know that there were Elmars for enlargers in those years, soon to be replaced by Focotars (50mm f/4.5). Does your enlarger have an anti-Newton disk (to prevent Newton-rings)?

Maybe the light falloff is caused by a wrong bulb. Is there also light falloff when you stop down to f/8?

Erik.
 
Erik van Straten said:
I know that there were Elmars for enlargers in those years, soon to be replaced by Focotars (50mm f/4.5). Does your enlarger have an anti-Newton disk (to prevent Newton-rings)?

Maybe the light falloff is caused by a wrong bulb. Is there also light falloff when you stop down to f/8?

Erik.
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The bulb I have in there is yanked all the way to the top. I think it is a standard Eiko ph211. My neg carrier is a custom jobbie with coated glass on the bottom and anti newton glass on top. The condenser sits on the anti newton glass.

I suspect it may be the bulb which isn't the super short necked original bulb. I have been thiniking about it over the last few days and i think I am going to put a diffusion disk on top of the condenser tube housing thingy where the locking ring is, then put a reflector type bulb in there and see how that works.

I do remember when i move around the bulb I can see it change on the easel.

I have a Saunders 4x5 so it isn't that big a deal.

I've used it with five or six different lenses. Right now I have a Durst Neonon on it. I've also used it with a Fuji EX, Computar DL, the Elmar, Minolta-X Rokkor, Focotar II and a few others. I have a lot of lenses. Lol.

I really only just noticed it because this image needed to be burned on the ends which I've never had to do with other enlargers and this image.


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Erik van Straten said:
You can order small bulbs for the Valoy enlargers (and Focomat Ic etc.) here:
https://uk.proflamps.com/en/Products...0100160841412/

PF603E/51 230V 75W E27 - Photocrescenta P3/3

Brand: Dr. Fischer Order code: 101-00-160841412
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Thanks for the link Eric. Unfortunately I am in the US and they cost 50 pounds with shipping. Yikes! LOL.

I was just in the darkroom checking this issue out. I think I had what we call over here a brain fart. Lol. I think I was printing that image at f/2.8 which may account for the falloff. I just measured with the enlarging attachment on the Gossen SBC and I am not getting more than perhaps 1/3 of a stop falloff in the corners. That is with the bulb all the way up and all the way down. It didn't make a difference. I cut a piece of white plexi so I'll give that a go when I get a new type of bulb. I'm thinking about putting in an LED bulb and hopefully get more light without resorting to a 150 watt incandescent. Too much heat.
 
Erik van Straten said:
Thank you.

You get nice results from your enlarger. Do you have a picture of it?

Good idea, trying a LED bulb.


Erik.
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It is just a standard 1a.

The led bulb + the white plexiglass was a failure. Lol. I think I need to get a different bulb and try it again. The angle was too direct and the head of the bulb was too small.

I have also been thinking about keeping the regular bulb and putting a white lining in the tube. I did some measurments last night and the edges are around 2/10ths under the center. All other enlargers I've used had a fully diffuse light source. I'm thinking that just adding the lining might be perfect. Now I just have to figure what to make it out of. Always something....

Contax IIa with s Sonnar.

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As I make split-grade prints, I need for the soft exposure a filter that produces flat, diffuse light. I found in a CD box some really nice stuff for this: transparant white plastic, like textile fabric, with very fine holes in it so it does not absorb all the light, but diffuse nevertheless almost 100%. Maybe you can find someting like that. I bundle this filter with the 00-Ilford multigrade filter.


Erik.
 
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