De Vere Enlarger factory

[pierre506]

Visited De Vere enlarger factory yesterday.
Stunning findings there~

10x12


8x10


Vacuum board


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[Tin Can]

More story if you please.

Thank you.

[pierre506]

Dear Randy,
What story did you wanna know?


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[Tin Can]

The 5 W's like a news reporter.

Who
What
Where
When
Why

I mean, where are they made? Are they selling many?

Any improvements?

What sizes?

Are they using new electronics? iPhone Apps? Modern heads? LED? Old lenses?

Condensors? AN glass carriers?

Are they one offs, bespoke, singulaur examples from a custom house?

Not a critique, just details they supply.

Dear Randy,
What story did you wanna know?


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[jack_hui]

looks like this factory is in China?

[pierre506]

looks like this factory is in China?

Yes, it's in the north of suzhou( my city), very near Shanghai.

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[pierre506]

The 5 W's like a news reporter.

Who
What
Where
When
Why

I mean, where are they made? Are they selling many?

Any improvements?

What sizes?

Are they using new electronics? iPhone Apps? Modern heads? LED? Old lenses?

Condensors? AN glass carriers?

Are they one offs, bespoke, singulaur examples from a custom house?

Not a critique, just details they supply.

Where are they made?
China.
The important parts from the UK

Are they selling many?
Yes

Any improvements?
Yes

What sizes?
4x5
8x10
10x12
11x14

Are they using new electronics?
No

iPhone Apps?
No

Modern heads?
No sure, but like the old style

No LED?
No, because the LED isn't brighter enough.

Old lenses?
Up to the users

Condensors?
5x7 and 8x10 condensors for the 8x10 enlarger

AN glass carriers?
Yes

The price of 4x5 is about USD 3600.
The price of 8x10 wall model is about USD 4545.
The price of 8x10 vertical model isabout USD 5909.
80x110cm vacuum board is about USD 425.
140x180cm vacuum board is about USD 1516.
The manufacturer takes the charge of crating.
The buyer pays the shipping cost.

One of my friend wanted to buy an 8x10 enlarger. So I was with him to the factory yesterday.
I didn't ask the price of 10x12 enlarger. It's said someone had booked a 11x14 enlarger.

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[Tin Can]

Thank you Pierre for all your answers.

I consider this great news as it shows a market need is being met.

Which also means enlarging is not dead and China is interested in LF capture and traditional Lf enlargement onto SG paper.

Excellent report.

[Roger Cole]

Yes that's great and the prices aren't even bad considering today's prices in general and the market though I suspect shipping one would add enormously to those prices.

[interneg]

I knew that Odyssey Sales (the successor to DeVere) had been manufacturing in China about 10 years ago - I'd assumed (wrongly) that that had ceased & that reconditioning of already made machines was all they were doing. The 504 & 5108 are great machines - some of the most precise & well made enlargers ever.