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Old Omega Cold Light
The "flying saucer"? Not a bad little light. Omega claimed that the lamp
was a custom job (I could find the part number but doubt you'll find the lamp unless Classic Omega Enlargers has a few--at one time Harry had everything). But with a little fiddling a standard circular lamp will work, try a warm white for VC papers. The example I played with had three problems. 1.The interior lamphouse coating was a sort or eggshell white paint and was severely flaking Could be repainted, I suppose. 2.Exposure times are long. 3.Start up times, this is not an instant-on lamp (like the Aristo with it's pre-start heater). The good news is that 2 and 3 sort of cancel each other out. But why bother? a used Aristo head with the new W54 lamp is so much better. BTW if you like the Flash Gordon / Buck Rogers look find an Omega Sphere D (the black and white version off their original non-dichroic color head). I have a non-operational example that would look right at home in Dr. Frankenstein's lab. It uses a spherical mixing chamber and a couple or tungsten lamps for a pretty fast little diffused light printer (and it looks cool as hell, too.) Like a color head, if you find one, make sure it has the longer rods for the parallelogram lifting rig that Omega used to elevate their heads while changing carriers. And it had a special power supply/timer (also like a colorhead). -- darkroommike "Mike" wrote in message news I came across someone with several Omega D2 enlargers. Some are fitted with cold lights, and I have the opportunity to just buy the cold light for my DII. Described as follows: "standard cold light for the older omega. Sort of looks like a "space ship" round, elagant design. Uses a standard light that can be found in a hardware store, so it doesn't take an expensive bulb to replace" Anybody know what this is? The Aristo cold lights definitely take a special bulb. |
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Old Omega Cold Light
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"Mike King" wrote: BTW if you like the Flash Gordon / Buck Rogers look find an Omega Sphere D (the black and white version off their original non-dichroic color head). I have a non-operational example that would look right at home in Dr. Frankenstein's lab. It uses a spherical mixing chamber and a couple or tungsten lamps for a pretty fast little diffused light printer (and it looks cool as hell, too.) Like a color head, if you find one, make sure it has the longer rods for the parallelogram lifting rig that Omega used to elevate their heads while changing carriers. And it had a special power supply/timer (also like a colorhead). Omega made lots of weird stuff, I had an F dichro 10x10 Lamp house for the first color printing took, round gelatin filters that fit into a geared set of circles. Harry Taylor told me he had never fixed one so I gave up on it when I moved this last September. It was a monster and looked like a robot when mounted to the enlarger frame. -- "To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."--Theodore Roosevelt, May 7, 1918 greg_____photo(dot)com |
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