>I don't know about your enlarger, but with my Durst Laborator 138, >it's much easier to make prints smaller than 8x10 with longer lens >than standard for the format, especially because I set the easel >height to be rather low for comfort when making large prints. I don't >make any highly critical prints smaller than 8x10, and most of my real >prints are 11x14 and up, so this doesn't affect me much. 8x10 is abouat my smallest size too, and I can go down to 11x14 now that I figured out how to raise the base. My partner sort of laughed when he thought of the longer lens solution. He said, "Could you use a telephoto lens?" I'll tell him that that might actually work! --shannon ============================================================================================================= To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org and logon to your account (the same e-mail address and password you set-up when you subscribed,) and unsubscribe from there.