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Old 8th February 2019, 03:16 PM
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The L1200 negative carriers are very good in accommodating different size inserts so from a practical viewpoint I suspect you will find it good for 35mm. There is even a system that replaces the larger mixing boxes on the colour head with mixers and negative carriers especially designed for smaller film sizes. I was lucky to get these as part of an enlarger back when these big enlargers were ending up in skips but they are pretty rare now and can cost a fair bit - but the standard mixers and neg carriers are fine.

I did used to use just a 4x5" mixing box for all sizes until I got hold of some film-size specific ones - print times were longer, but not onerously so.

However, if you have the space, then two enlargers can be helpful in terms of not having to swap out lenses and negative carrier inserts (and possibly condensers) etc.

Have fun!

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