Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/12/08

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Subject: [Leica] V35 enlarger
From: pmcc_2000 at yahoo.com (pmcc)
Date: Fri Dec 8 23:47:36 2006

Hi Gary,

If your IC is the gray hammertone one with the filter
drawer in the lamphead, then I have the same model
(which Tom A helped me re-assemble and set up). With
the Focotar II lens it's everything I could ask for in
a 35mm black and white enlarger.

rgds
Peter.
SF, CA

--- Gary Todoroff <datamaster@northcoastphotos.com>
wrote:

> I used the V35 for about two years, sold it and went
> back to my 1C. 
> Although the variable contrast head was very handy,
> I just liked 
> better how the 1C handled and always kept precise
> auto-focus. I never 
> quite trusted the V35 on autofocus and found it
> difficult to adjust 
> for that. My 1C is the last model made with the
> white Formica 
> baseboard and the extra tall column - very elegant
> and sturdy.
> 
> I sold my Omega D5500 with computer color head,
> motorized everything, 
> turret with three lenses, foot switch, etc, etc a
> year ago for a 
> whopping $350 on eBay (about $10,000 altogether on
> the retail price 
> list). Took me most of a day just to package it for
> shipping! My all 
> time favorite was the Leica 2C, my daily companion
> as a darkroom 
> printer in Stockholm many years ago - I wrote up
> that story for the 
> LHSA Viewfinder and posted it at
> http://northcoastphotos.com/article1.html
> 
> Gary Todoroff
> 
> 
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