Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/01/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Does this enlarger or its regulated power supply have a switch between 220V and 120V? You might have it on 220V!!!! Lucian On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, Marc James Small wrote: > At 06:03 PM 1999-01-20 -0800, Gary Todoroff wrote: > >I have now enlarged 35 of 200 prints for a project and am very frustrated > >with the V35. Some of the required 16x20 Ilfochrome prints are taking > >almost five minutes of exposure to get details out of the shadows. That 75w > >bulb is a popgun and I need a 12 gauge! > > > > > Gary > > Something is seriously a-gley here. I routinely do enlargements up at the > 15X and 16X end of the column (probably 20" by 24", though I'm printing on > 8" by 10" paper, cropped), and have yet to have an exposure over 45 > seconds. Either your bulb is bad, your transformer is shot (you might not > be getting sufficient voltage to generate 75W of light output), or you're a > fancier of DARK negatives! > > Marc > > msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 > Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir! > >