Advice on selecting an enlarger
Jun 3, 2020 01:04:13 #
lositton
Loc: Pensacola, FL
pj81156 wrote:
I have decided to get start developing and enlarging photos again, but I parted with all my gear years ago. So, step one. An enlarger. I will be doing b&w only, 35mm only. So, I need recommendations for an enlarger. Not an “entry” unit, but a quality unit. Suggestions? I did a WTB on the Hog and got some interesting but not quite right answers. So, I am still looking. Thanks.
I had a Beseler 23cll with a color head for over 30 years. I had it stored in a box in my attic for 20 of those years. Never used it again after I bought my first digital camera. Recently donated it to the local High School Photography club.
Jun 10, 2020 12:57:51 #
Paul Diamond
Loc: Atlanta, GA, USA
lositton wrote:
I had a Beseler 23cll with a color head for over 30 years. I had it stored in a box in my attic for 20 of those years. Never used it again after I bought my first digital camera. Recently donated it to the local High School Photography club.
Your dichroic color head could be used as an adjustable continuous light source for copying slides and negs to digital camera sensors. Archive the old images you have to preserve them.
Jun 10, 2020 13:19:44 #
Paul Diamond wrote:
Your dichroic color head could be used as an adjustable continuous light source for copying slides and negs to digital camera sensors. Archive the old images you have to preserve them.
I made many thousands of such copies back in the 1980s (slide to slide). I had both a Bowens Illumitrans IIIc and an inverted Beseler 4x5 color head with a vernier caliper slide compound. I wish I still had that!
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