[pure-silver] Re: Nice enlarger
- From: Sauerwald Mark <mark_sauerwald@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 18:22:23 -0700 (PDT)
You can bypass the probe and just set grade and time,
but it still adjusts the set time for the grade, and
the bulb brightness. I don't think that you can use a
normal timer with it.
--- Charlie Thorsten <charlie_thorsten@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Mark,
> Thanks for this commentary. I've never used one of
> these personally (although I've had a couple closed
> loop color heads...AC1201, ZBE Starlite). It's
> interesting how you said it takes away the organic
> nature of BW printing. Is it possible to put it in
> a "manual" mode, where you simply set the paper
> grade
> and enter an exposure time? I know the ZBE Starlite
> had this, which was nice.
>
> -Charlie
>
>
> --- Sauerwald Mark <mark_sauerwald@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > I have had one of these (The Ilford MG600, which
> is
> > a
> > rebadged multigraph) on a Beseler 45MX chassis for
> a
> > little over a year now.
> >
> > It has some excellent features, and it has some
> > things
> > that drive me crazy (sometimes it is the same
> > thing).
> > The probe which looks at your image and makes
> > suggestions for grade and exposure has saved me a
> > huge
> > amount of paper.
> >
> > At the same time, it has a mind of it's own. If
> you
> > set the timer for 15 seconds, then press the
> expose
> > button, you will never know how long it will
> expose
> > the paper for. It takes into account the contrast
> > grade that you have selected, and has a sensor
> which
> > compensates for the bulb brightness which may
> change
> > with time, and then decides how long you really
> > wanted
> > when you set the timer for 15sec. On the bright
> > side,
> > if you set the timer to 15 sec, you will always
> get
> > the same exposure, even if you come back much
> later.
> >
> > Also if you do radical changes in contrast grade,
> > you
> > don't have to change the time on the timer, it
> takes
> > care of that for you.
> >
> > It has a counter to keep track of how many copies
> of
> > a
> > particular print you have done, and the counter is
> > smart enough to not count burning cycles.
> >
> > Despite all that, I am seriously considering
> > enlarging
> > my darkroom so that I can bring my old condenser
> > head
> > 45MX back from retirement. (and possibly make
> room
> > for an 8x10 enlarger too) Part of what I love
> about
> > photography is the organic nature of it, and the
> > technology incorporated in the Multigraph head
> takes
> > me away from that.
> >
>
>
>
>
>
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