The only real enlarger I ever had was a Beseler 23C. Seems to me the
condensers absorbed most of the heat. Didn't non-condenser enlargers
typically have a plate of heat absorbing glass between lamp and lens?
Maybe it was a part of the flashed opal glass that was used as a diffuser?
Chuck Norcutt
AG Schnozz wrote:
>>In the golden olden days you could
>>unscrew your 50mm Summicron (did I get that right?) from your
>>Leica rangefinder and screw it into the enlarger when you
>>finished shooting and went into the darkroom.
>
>
> And imagine with me for a minute the number of cracked elements
> from heat! My dad was tickled as Elmo when he finally got a
> real enlarger lens. Not only did it withstand the heat without
> breaking, but the flatfieldness meant that he didn't have to
> stop down to F16 to get anything usable.
>
> AG
>
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