Shipping enlargers, due to their bulky shape and weight, can be problematic, but hav eyou tried to get shipping rates from GreyHound. I have a friend who shipped a JoBo system from Montreal to Vancouver by Bus.
B. On 25/02/2015 7:05 PM, mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
I rarely do color. Haven't done any in years, but I am not sure I want to close the door entirely to the possibility of doing it in the future. What you describe makes perfect sense.Funny looking on ebay when you start looking at enlargers, its local pick up only. I suspect others here might have had that issue. Looks good, and what appears to be a fair price, but they wont ship it. I can understand.One was particularly interesting, but in central Israel and not only is it over $100 in just shipping, it doesn't include taxes and customs and by that time I could have just driven across country to pick one up.Thing about ebay though is what isn't there now, could be in five minutes. It just takes patience, something that for me is hard to come by at times.I want to thank everyone for the ideas and help. It really is good to have a bunch of folks to bounce ideas around with.-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [pure-silver] Re: Need some help list From: Ken Hart <kwhart1@xxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:kwhart1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>> Date: Wed, February 25, 2015 4:28 pm To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> I have a D2V; the condenser type. It has two non-moveable condensers, and a third one on top that gets moved depending on what lenses I use. There is a door on the front of the moveable condenser section with a diagram indicating where to put the third condenser. I have used this enlarger with VC filters and CC filters (for RA-4 color prints). It wants 6¨x6¨ filters. Mr Daneliuk in another response says that color printing is not likely possible because of needing to correct for the tubes in the head. That is most likely correct for a head with flurescent tubes, but my D2v head has an incandescent lamp and the color correction is pretty easy. My D2V is mounted to the countertop right beside it´s littler sibling, a B22. They are a cute couple! For color work, I now have an Eseco enlarger that I got used and cost me transportation (1200 miles and the USA/Canadian border!). If you are doing any large amount of color, this is the machine to have. Once calibrated, the auto functions will get you nearly right on for color correction and exposure.-- Ken Hart <kwhart1@xxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:kwhart1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>>On Wed, 25 Feb 2015 13:21:08 -0700 <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote: > I could tolerate the condenser set up, but its been so long since I even read about a condenser enlarger, I would have to go read up on what condenser to use with what lens. Don't you need a different condenser with different lenses? > > Strongly considered a VC head in that probably 99 percent of what I would use it for would be black and white, but there is always that off chance I might want to make a color print. Could you use the VC head, and for that odd time use color filters to make a color print should the need arise? May not have to be quick or easy, but it would need to work. > > Just would want to make sure any filters I add would be above the negative. It's real smart to spend large sums of money on fine lenses to capture, fine film to record, an enlarger lens that has good quality, only to introduce a filter to the image made out of a plastic that cost about a half a cent. It's the main reason I am finally going to break down and do it. > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [pure-silver] Re: Need some help list > From: Tim Daneliuk <tundra@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:tundra@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> > Date: Wed, February 25, 2015 1:49 pm > To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > On 02/25/2015 12:07 PM, mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Well I think its finally time. I have been using an old D2 with a Simmons > > Cromega D head on it. Picked up at a camera show a long time ago. It didn't > > > These heads come up from time to time on eBay. > > I only do monochrome printing and I cannot recommend the Zone VI VC cold light > head highly enough ... if you can find one. > > Failing that, get a conventional Omega condenser housing for the D2 and buy > a VC filter set (4x4?) that goes *above* the negative into that housing. > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Tim Daneliuk tundra@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:tundra@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/ > > ============================================================================================================= > To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org <//www.freelists.org> and logon to your account (the same e-mail address and password you set-up when you subscribed,) and unsubscribe from there. > ============================================================================================================To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org <//www.freelists.org> and logon to your account (the same e-mail address and password you set-up when you subscribed,) and unsubscribe from there. ============================================================================================================To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org <//www.freelists.org> and logon to your account (the same e-mail address and password you set-up when you subscribed,) and unsubscribe from there.==========================================================================================================To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org and logon to your account (the same e-mail address and password you set-up when you subscribed,) and unsubscribe from there.
