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Help! Broke my rolleimatic enlarger's red slide
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darkroommike wrote: On Sep 27, 8:39*pm, laran wrote: Hello, broke the red plastic, cam-shaped red slide for my rolleimatic enlarger. * *Can't remember what it is called but it allows me to focus without exposing my image. * I anticipate that finding a replacement will be extremely difficult so I would like to cut out a new one. Question: is the red slide just lexan? acrylic? *What would be suitable to use for an enlarger? *And if possible, sources? *In canada??? Some multigrade or polycontrast under the lens kits also have a red filter, or you could use a dark red camera filter sized to fit your enlarger lens or a 3x3 dark red filter in the filter drawer of your enlarger. When I say dark red I mean a Wratten 29 or at least a 25. Will NOT work for color (or panchromatic BW papers) and I would run a fog test on all variable contrast papers. A Wratten 29 should work, but a piece of Rubylith will be cheaper. They do still make Rubylith, I'd hope -- but I have to admit I can't see why... -- Thor Lancelot Simon "Even experienced UNIX users occasionally enter rm *.* at the UNIX prompt only to realize too late that they have removed the wrong segment of the directory structure." - Microsoft WSS whitepaper |
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