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Subject: [Leica] Recommendations for an enlarger
From: firkin at ncable.net.au (Alastair Firkin)
Date: Tue Feb 7 03:47:05 2006
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I can give you more details should you wish.

Cheers
On 07/02/2006, at 21:02, Nick Roberts wrote:

> Thank you, Alastair. I'm in the process of setting up
> a darkroom again after many years of purely digital
> printing - not because I'm not happy with the digital
> process - I am - but just because I want to (I'll
> probably expand on that elsewhere). I can't really
> spare the space for more than one enlarger (although
> they're so cheap s/h these days it's not fincancially
> out of the question), so it's just a case of deciding
> if I want to limit myself to printing from 120 and
> 35mm, both of which I'm reasonably familiar with and
> which cover 90% of my requirements between them, or if
> I want to go the whole hog and get the De Vere. You've
> given me plenty of food for thought!
>
> Nick
>
> --- Alastair Firkin <firkin@ncable.net.au> wrote:
>
>> Well, compared with the V35 it is cumbersome. No
>> Autofocus, the
>> negative holder is OK, but if the neg has a curl at
>> all, its very hard
>> to put it in position (6x6 negs especially). I don't
>> mind the focus
>> mechanism and the height adjustments are fine, the
>> light boxes I have
>> seem good, though the light to illuminate the colour
>> dials is caput. I
>> have an Ilford 500 head for b/w and changing it for
>> the colour is a bit
>> of a fiddle, quite apart from it being soooo heavy.
>> The transformers
>> are large, the colour head has its own timer, but
>> I'd prefer to be able
>> to use my Jobo 7000 to set it off. The Ilford head
>> produces enough heat
>> to melt the poles (not Devere's fault I realize).
>> Changing neg size
>> involves changing the carrier plates, and if you are
>> not careful, you
>> "lose" the top plate when pulling it out (mine is
>> now glass, so I've
>> taped the hole to stop me doing this again) Changing
>> neg sizes requires
>> using differing light boxes - no big deal, but you
>> have to have
>> somewhere to store them.
>>
>> In reality, I enjoy using it and the results are
>> fine, but its not a
>> fast easy solution, and I would not use it for 35mm
>> often.
>>
>> My only comparison was a Durst  6x6 enlarger, which
>> was less "fussy".
>>
>
>
>
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Replies: Reply from abridge at gmail.com (Adam Bridge) ([Leica] Recommendations for an enlarger)
In reply to: Message from nickbroberts at yahoo.co.uk (Nick Roberts) ([Leica] Recommendations for an enlarger)