Maybe this would be better in the lounge... or bar?
Suppose you were putting together a darkroom for 4x5 and 120. Given the current state of available lenses and enlargers (probably no new ones being made) What would your dream be... multiple enlargers are Okay... this is after all a pipe dream...
This is B&W only darkroom...
Oh, you have Googles of money to play with .....
richard
silverprankster.com
New enlargers and lenses are in production.
So the dream one would be? Please be my guest, make a pitch.Originally Posted by Bob Salomon - HP Marketing
Rik,
Kaiser only makes up to 6x9cm enlargers. They are available from Freestyle and you can read all about them on their site. As for lenses, nothing surpasses the Apo Rodagon-N.
devere 504 with a ilford 500 multigrade head. bombproof!
Saltzman, but maybe because I've never had one.
“You often feel tired, not because you've done too much, but because you've done too little of what sparks a light in you.”
― Alexander Den Heijer, Nothing You Don't Already Know
Saunders LPL 4550, it's the most modern, it's what Roman Loranc uses.
edit...(Evan's post reminded me) don't forget the VCCE head.
It makes adjusting contrast easy.
LPL VCCE...Evan Clarke
Give me fifty grand and I could design you a colorhead that makes every one ever on
the market look like something from the stone age. The ultimate enlarger never went
into production, although Dust began an analogous project before concentrating on digital. Other than the relatively weak digital enlargers themselves, every design around uses electronic formulas fairly archaic. As far as enlarger chassis are concerned, the finest probably ever economically feasilbe were made by Durst in the
70's and 80's. It's all been downhill from there due to the vastly increased expense in skilled labor and materials. No comparison between machined stainless steel and
extruded aluminum!
My 4x5 dream enlarger is the Durst L1200 Multigraph and another L1200 with a VLS501 Color Head. I have them!I scrimped and save for years and years to be able to get them - now they go for pennies on the dollar.
Since human always want more, I have another dream enlarger: a Durst L1840 (10x10) - were I be able to afford it, I would have no place to put it.
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