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Subject: [Leica] Aaargh. There is a free L1200 Durst enlarger, in San Francisco
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Sun, 20 May 2012 23:27:28 -0400

My timer was a Beseler with a thing in it which you could have beep every
second. That helped with dodging and burning. I played music very very loud
so you could just hear the beep under the orchestra..

- - from my iRabs.
Mark Rabiner
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/springdays/


> From: Tina Manley <images at comporium.net>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Sun, 20 May 2012 20:49:30 -0400
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Aaargh. There is a free L1200 Durst enlarger, in San
> Francisco
> 
> Mark -
> 
> I think you have written exactly what I feel.  I loved the darkroom when I
> worked in it.  I still have most of my enlargers and other equipment.  I
> know I'll never work there again.  Chemicals are too bad.  Digital is too
> good.  We can't go back, but I miss it in a lot of ways.  I remember
> adjusting my enlargers and using timers and my wonderful Jobo, but it's all
> a memory now.
> 
> Tina
> 
> On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> 
> wrote:
> 
>> I was just this week back in Portland Oregon where I'd spent most my life
>> going through my storage cubicle looking at my Beseler 5x7 cold light and
>> Omega D2V and Aristo VC Head. I refuse to just give the head away it feels
>> like the day before yesterday when I spent a grand on it and it changed my
>> darkroom life. The enlargers I may have to pay somebody to take out of
>> there.
>> However like 99.99% of all photogs my darkroom life is a past life. I
>> remember it as a dream.
>> I'm now shooting digital looking at my camera going "I wonder what this
>> button does?". No longer the master of my domain. I'm just figuring it all
>> out like everybody else.
>> I also came upon in my storage cubicle a box of enlarger glass mainly El
>> Nikkor's but I found a 100mm Schneider Componon which I got used at Pro
>> Photo Oregon for 70 bucks a few years ago and when I got back to my studio
>> I
>> looked up the B&H price and it was like 500 bucks. Making it the best deal
>> I
>> ever made in my photo existence. I can use in on my Viso system and
>> possibly
>> rig it up to other camera systems one would thing. With enough super glue
>> and duck tape. The writing was all ready on the wall as to darkroom gear 
>> of
>> great value the day before yesterday now having close to zero value.
>> I look at as a positive though.
>>  its an exciting revolution time in photography for such a thing to be
>> happening. And we get to be in on it on the ground floor.
>> Any lecture I might be making on split printing or other darkroom or
>> photography work I did for decades falls under the heading of "history of
>> photography". In ten years it will go full circle and there will be a
>> resurgence of interest in shooting and maybe printing film. By then there
>> will be one company in Croatia making film for forty dollars a roll.
>> 
>> - - from my iRabs.
>> Mark Rabiner
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/springdays/
>> 
>> 
>> 
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>> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Tina Manley, ASMP
> www.tinamanley.com
> 
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Replies: Reply from sonc.hegr at gmail.com (Sonny Carter) ([Leica] Aaargh. There is a free L1200 Durst enlarger, in San Francisco)
In reply to: Message from images at comporium.net (Tina Manley) ([Leica] Aaargh. There is a free L1200 Durst enlarger, in San Francisco)