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Response to lightproof door, enlarger setup

from Alan Gibson (gibson.al@mail.dec.com)
For my bathroom/darkroom door, I found some draught-proofing strips that are black, and highly effective. If that hadn't been enough, I would have made a black curtain.

I've no experience with your enlarger. Some enlargers, especially those for different negative sizes, have an adjustment for _brightness_, rather than _focus_ in the corners. In this case, expose a sheet of paper with no negative in the carrier, aiming at a mid-gray. Develop it. If the corners of the paper are darker than the centre, there is too much light being projected at the corners.

I suspect that once the enlarger is set up for a given size of negative, it won't need adjusting.

(posted 9791 days ago)

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