I made my first enlarger at 13 was made from a thrift store camera.
It was a postcard size type with bellows made with the help of a fellow
9th grader whose father was a retired photog. We added a light and made
cardboard box type with tape! We developed roll film by hand! I think dad
saw the interest and bought me a Durst 606 and a plastic tank!
On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 5:00 PM Ken Hart <kwhart1@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
My first enlarger was from Sears (or Montgomery Ward). It was a
diffusion light source 35mm with an exceedingly bad lens. My photography
teacher was smart enough to recognize that was the cause of my images
being crap, and found someone who was selling a darkroom setup including
an Omega B-22. I still have that enlarger. My next enlarger was an Omega
D2V, which I still have. Up until a month ago, I had been using it for
color (RA-4) printing with CC filters slipped in above the condensers. I
found someone on eBay who was selling four Chromega D-XL enlargers- I
bought them for $800 including freight shipping from FL to IN.
Unfortunately, the deal included only one power supply, two lens
turrets, and no neg carriers. (The neg carriers from the old D2V will
work fine.) So if anyone is looking for "almost" three Chromega D-XL's
let me know!
The bad news is that I will be moving soon, and I will be setting up my
sixth, and hopefully, final darkroom. With maybe a couple Chromegas, a
B22, D2V, and a Hope RA4 roller transport processor.
Ken Hart
kwhart1@xxxxxxxxxxxx
On 5/29/20 7:02 PM, Howard Efner wrote:
Since we are on board the wayback machine, my first enlarger was a 2 1/4x 3 1/4 condenser Solar enlarger that I kept for many years. What I paid
for it ????? Now have a 4x5 Omega and a genuine Mahogany Elwood 5x7 with a
VC cold light head.
wrote:
They have been lounging in the PERMEANT darkroom for 15+ years now.
Howard Efner
73 de KF5RGU
On May 29, 2020, at 14:21, Chauncey Walden <clwaldeniii@xxxxxxxxxxx>
One, written January 27th, 1968, was to a camera shop and was in the amount
I found a bundle of old cancelled checks that took me back a few years.
of $102.68. This was for my first enlarger and darkroom equipment including
chemicals and paper. The enlarger was a 35mm Durst. I used it for about 10
years and then lucked into a color head for it just when I got interested
in color printing. It eventually was replaced by a medium format Omega and
then and then and then;-)
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