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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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