The agony of the cold light and the VC paper

Pros who do interiors sometimes gel the florescent tubes for color balance. You can do the same and leave the drawer for contrast control.

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Originally Posted by jnanian

matt -
Do you have the shutters that came with the enlager? john

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There was no shutter on that straight tube Omega
I picked up as surplus in 1958 or 9. I think it was
war surplus; olive drab IIRC. Don't happen to
recall what model it might have been?

I didn't think to mention cold vs warm start tubes. I'd
guess 5/8 inch the size the OP needed. Three thousand
Kelvin. That's lower than expected. Dan

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Originally Posted by dancqu

There was no shutter on that straight tube Omega
I picked up as surplus in 1958 or 9. I think it was
war surplus; olive drab IIRC. Don't happen to
recall what model it might have been?

I didn't think to mention cold vs warm start tubes. I'd
guess 5/8 inch the size the OP needed. Three thousand
Kelvin. That's lower than expected. Dan

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hi dan -

that's kind of weird.

maybe there are an older e3s than the one you picked up ... ?

when i bought my e4 a few years ago, i had a choice between the older e3 and the e4, i ended up staying away from the e3 because the shutter mechanism was incomplete or missing --- i learned this through conversations with harry taylor at classicenlargers ( and the folks that sold me the enlarger ) ...

there is info at http://classicenlargers.com >> help forum
if you just type in E-3 you won't get much, but if you go back 360 ( or more ) days you will get info on E-3s.

good luck!

-john