[LargeFormat] Elwood Enlarger update, new LF lens

[Rich Lahrson]

Hi folks!

     Moving along with my darkroom project, the place is fully painted.  I just
checked
the eveness of the illumination of the 5x7 Elwood with a 300 watt bulb and the
180mm/5.6 Componon with the Weston Analyzer and, because I'll be initially
enlarging 5x7 to only 11x14, it looks very good, with only very slight fall off
toward the extreme corners, I can live with that.  I've got 9 of these 300 watt
bulbs, so I won't be getting a cold light head right now anyway.

     BTW, I picked up my first lens for the 5x7 moded Seneca, a 135mm/6.3
Wide Field Ektar.  It just covers 5x7 with minimum movement.  So, we'll
see.............
The 135mm should give about the same 'look' as a 28mm or maybe 35mm on 35mm
film,
where I'm coming from.  The 35mm and 5x7 formats are more similar in aspect
ratio than either 4x5 or 8x10.

Cheers,

Rich Lahrson
Berkeley, California
tripspud@transbay.net