8x10 enlarger

[Jim Graves]

Was looking for a 4x5 enlarger for a friend in Phoenix area and ran across this 8x10 enlarger on Craig's List ... if I had a semi to haul it in and an extra garage to set it up in, I'd switch to 8x10 (never seen one of these before) ... and it comes with lenses:

http://phoenix.craigslist.org/pho/678952665.html

[cyrus]

Holy Jebezuz that is HUGE. Overhead rails and all!
I don't know if I like the idea of horizontal plane though.

[Walter Calahan]

Very cool. My wife would kill me.

[Kino]

WOW! Huge, heavy and impractical for my needs/skill level... I want it!

[lenser]

Hey, Cyrus. Grab a copy of Adams' "The Camera" and read (and see the photo) about his homemade 8x10 horizontal enlarger. Didn't seem to hold him back from making some fantastic prints in horizontal projection.

Wish I had a place for this baby!!!!

Tim

[ic-racer]

Just when you think you have seen it all; now a horizontal enlarger that hangs from the ceiling! Awesome!

[Peter De Smidt]

Haven't seen one of these before. It's got some good kit with it: vacuum easel, metrolux, Aristo... If it's functional, it'd be a great outfit. It would fit better in space with limited ceiling height better than any of the vertical enlargers.

[nolindan]

http://phoenix.craigslist.org/pho/678952665.html

It was made by Keuffel & Esser for printing aerial surveys. If the copy board/easel and negative carrier are on gimbals then it is called a 'rectifying enlarger' and is made to correct for any non-parallelism between the camera and the ground when the picture was taken. It may have linkages so that when the easel is tilted the negative tilts a corresponding amount to keep the image in focus. At the least it should have protractors for transferring the complementary tilts.

These things are indeed immense. This looks like a practical one compared to the competition:

http://www.b-29s-over-korea.com/aerial%20photography/aerial%20photography-pg1.html

There was a Zeiss model that showed up on ebay not long ago.

Many of them had CRT's as light sources to allow very precise dodging and burning.

Very obsolete now, replaced by scanners, rectification can be done in photoshop with two clicks of a mouse.