TriX wrote:
I just have 2 (and really just need one). I have the same big 4x5 motorized Bessler (same one AA used) with a Dichro head and a smaller Bessler 67 with a Dichro head as well. Don’t need the 67, but can’t find anyone to buy it 😩. What I don’t have is a 4x5 camera (but I have considered it), just MF and 35. I’m set up for C-41, but just do B&W now.
Never even KNEW Beseler MADE a 67, TriX - just the aforementioned 4x5, and 21/4x31/4 ... two Dichroic heads, huh? ... Luxury, Luxury!!! ...
Just have the one. Tend to use the Motorized 4x5 more for printing Cibachromes, the smaller Beseler for color prints, and the other for B/W - now ...
6x7 Enlargers became very popular a while back ... I seem to remember a bunch of manufacturers were offering them, for a while.
The way I see it, though - the next size up from 6x7 - is only a small step in enlargers - to 21/4x31/4 - and encompasses 6x9, which a 67 doesn't.
Although I have both 4x5 and 5x7 View Cameras - the product from the latter is only contact-printed. A 5x7 enlarger, was never in the cards, for me.
Had I ever gone larger, it would've been to 8x10, but, of course - I would've had to extend my roof-line, quite considerably - for that!!!!
From the Net -
"Charles Beseler Company is a Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania industrial company addressing four primary markets: public and corporate steel shelving and furniture, iron shelving and storage, shrink wrap packaging and silver halide photography (film photography). The company now has two divisions left, its photo division and shrink wrap packaging.
The name Charles Beseler Company comes from Charles Beseler, a businessman in Germany in the 19th century who sold magic lanterns and stereopticons.
Beseler died in 1909, but his company remained and then moved to New Jersey in 1919. The company manufactured photographic enlargers and other photographic equipment throughout the 20th century. It also imported the Topcon line of cameras into the US during the time that the company made cameras.
Following a three-way merger in 1987, the company introduced other industrial lines to its business, and assumed new ownership.
Around 2004, the president died and ownership passed to his wife, with the previous CEO taking on the role of president.
Role in education
From as early as the 1990s and as of the 2000s, the Charles Beseler Company was a supplier to high schools for photography classes in Minnesota and Ontario.
The company is a historic contributor to silver halide photography. The company still sells photographic enlargers; one of the few remaining companies to market the device."
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