maybe since so many people are using leds n other newer heads, the originals are in landfills? hahaha did i miss the point again?
maybe since so many people are using leds n other newer heads, the originals are in landfills? hahaha did i miss the point again?
No, I think a lot of heads were sold off the top of enlargers
because I saw so many headless
The FOTAR was sold to me headless all accessories gone from a very nice basement in a big Midwest camera store
They were converting to big Digi printers
It was just North of the Elwood factory, long gone
Tin Can
Or the heads died due to 1970's electronics. The chasis typically outlast the heads!
Many headless enlarger chassis can be converted to copy stands.
I use a tall Arkay Studio Stand for that, Digi, easier to get 360 light
I had a 5 year career Digi copying color pencil drawings
and made him a couple books from the copies
I did it too cheap, but I don't want a Biz ever
The kicker is the drawings look digital but this guy did them by hand, to relax!
He sells them easily at $1000 unframed
Tin Can
The chassis is the hard part, heavy and exact...
Many new options for light panels for today!!!
Steve K
For copy I use 2 cross strobe ceiling bounce
a big bounce card on pipe side and a third strobe with softbox on side 4
A 12 x 12 foot copy area
Light meter, then a target sample image
When thee artiste' shows up we do one a minute, 30 minutes and he is gone with his art
He is so manic, he makes me look asleep, LOL
We talk very fast updating, no stopping
Originally Posted by LabRat
Tin Can
Well, I have three 8X10 enlargers, plus a 5X7, all with heads; and there is a functional reason for every one of them. I do use em all. But I've turned down at least twenty other commercial enlargers, all with heads too. No place to put em; and I don't want to be an enlarger dealer, nor want to rent a big storage space for something I don't personally use. Old electronics are no big deal; these things can be rewired, often completely bypassing all the fussy redundant bells n whistles.
But I did run out of room for my big old copy stand, so tweaked my Durst 184 with copy lights and a camera mount which slips right in where the lens turret disc normally fits. In other words, in just a few minutes I can convert it from a fully functioning color enlarger into a deluxe copy stand, or visa versa. The enlarger retains its head the whole time, and is not even involved copying. No need to borrow the axe man from the Tower of London, or that cute toy Robespierre set up across the Channel. I heard there were entire wagonloads of enlarger heads in Paris at that time.
RE my previous post about a hypothetical enlarger so rugged and precise that it would be "perfect," with no re-calibration possible - I actually had something close to this with Nikon Multiphot. Had the complete system...multiple backs, light sources, etc. Oh...and all of the lenses!
Horrible to think that I'd rescued this (no charge to me as long as I hauled it all away) from a local medical school that was about to junk the entire thing! And sad to think that my own circumstances about fifteen years back did not allow me to hang on to it.
While the Multiphot may not have allowed the kind of extensions typical of the better purpose-built enlargers (Durst, DeVere, Etc.) - I'm sure it would still have done an admirable job.
PBS, just watched how Stonehenge was moved
Seems humans have always recycled
During war we melt down old swords, plows, cars, trucks to make weapons
I did hear of people selling big enlargers for scrap
Bugatti engines were repurposed to rail
However Bugatti buried a few engine to save them from his enemy
Then dug them up, aging metal by burial is called 'curing' restorers prize them as better for it
Tin Can
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