>>4447035>It's supposed to be dim, I think 11w is standard and 40w is a lot for big prints, insane for small prints.There's nothing written on the lightbulb it came with so I don't know how many watts it is, but it was prohibitively dim, I couldn't even focus it properly because of how weak the light was
Even if I turned out the redlight and took time to have my eyes adapt to the dark it was just VERY dim and a pain in the ass to focus
In the beginning of the last month, when I finished my darkroom, I made test strips and everything came out blank, pure white, when stopped down to f/8
So I increased time from 2-10 with 2" intervals to 10-30" with 5" intervals and still nothing
Decided to make a test strip ranging from 1 to 10 minutes with 1' intervals and images were better at the 7-8 minutes range
This is utterly impractical
With the 40w light I was able to have these images made in the 10 to 20 seconds range with the lens wide open and some contrast filters added, which is more reasonable
>Are you stopped all the way down?this last time I was using it wide open, which is f/4.5 if I remember correctly
>Are you missing lenses from the head?Nope, everything's fine, just the lamp was a bit too dim
It says "55W Max." at the light socket, so I figured 40W would be ok
>Are you sure you were developing sufficiently?I think so, but it's possible that I made a weak solution
Used D-72 at 1:2 ratio
>It's better to hold it down by the edges with nothing on topwill do
Thanks, man!
