For Sale Beautiful Color Darkroom For Sale / OMEGA D5-XL, Super Chromega D Dichroic II Lamp..

Jan11 · Jan 10, 2012

Beautiful Pristine Color Darkroom Worth $5,100.
On Sale For $3,500. A nice deal. Can negotiate.

Cash and Carry -- Located in NYC.

(The enlarger chassis and lamp house alone sell for $3,500.
Prices displayed to the right of each item was the original cost.)

- OMEGA D5-XL Enlarger Chassis with Base.....$1,800.
- Super Chromega D Dichroic II Lamphouse.....$1,920.
- Time-O-Lite M72 Timer.....$ 250.
- Saunders single size 16x20 Easel.....$160.
- Microsight grain focuser.....$70.
- 35mm and 2 1/4mm negative carriers.....$210.
- Changing bag.....$25.
- 80mm Lens / Rodenstock.....$350.
- Lens Mount.....$75.
- 35mm metal and plastic negative deveolpers.....$60.
- Steel and plastic Graduates.....$50.
- Thermometer.....$25.
- Chemical Stir.....$10.
- Processing Tubes, 8x10, 11x14, 16x20.....$100.
- Motor for tube processing.....$50.
- Jugs, containers, chemical mixing pot, funnel, assorted developing trays.....$100.

ParkerSmithPhoto · Jan 10, 2012

No offense, but you'll be lucky to get $500 for all that. A guy here in Atlanta just sold a complete Beseler 45MXII setup (with two lenses and all the trimmings) for a whopping $150.

26x30 · Jan 10, 2012

Indeed. I picked up easily TWICE as much equipment, all on or above the same quality, for $200. It's too abundant to expect that type of cash, though I do wish you luck!

Zathras · Jan 11, 2012

ParkerSmithPhoto said:
No offense, but you'll be lucky to get $500 for all that. A guy here in Atlanta just sold a complete Beseler 45MXII setup (with two lenses and all the trimmings) for a whopping $150.

Sad but true. I got my Chromega D5-XL from a friend who couldn't find a buyer for it and he basically called me and told me to come by and get it before the next garbage pick up, or it was going out on the curb. It amazes me just how devalued this stuff has become.

Rick A · Jan 11, 2012

Paid $100 for mine, including two other enlargers, a pile of lenses complete dark room set-up and a complete Jobo CPE-2 with a pile of tubes and reels.

mdarnton · Jan 11, 2012

Since we're piling on here, I gave away much, much more than that, complete for three formats, including new Componons all the way around, about ten years ago when I saw the bottom fall out of analog and realized even at that point that I wouldn't be able to sell.

You need to go check prices on ebay for the things you're selling--that's your competition. Then call the art department at a local college and see if they have a deserving student who'd truck it all away for you.

Sirius Glass · Jan 11, 2012

Great enlarger and color head: OMEGA D5-XL Enlarger Chassis with Base & Super Chromega D Dichroic II Lamphouse
I have both and paid $350 for them five years ago and I can probably get them both for less now.
You have a great darkroom setup but I agree that your prices are too high.

Steve

Rick A · Jan 11, 2012

At this juncture, I will apologize for bursting your hopes of recouping your investment. I have several enlargers I've been trying to sell, best I have done so far is GIVE three of them away, a Beseler 45MX and a couple of 23C II's, and I still have six more to get rid of. The market is just not there, and the situation worsens as we march along toward total Digidoom.

Jan11 · Jan 12, 2012

Thank you for your input.
I truly appreciate your comments about my darkroom for sale.
It is with much apprehension that I am selling it but I am open
to negotiation.

Roger Cole · Jan 12, 2012

Rick A said:
At this juncture, I will apologize for bursting your hopes of recouping your investment. I have several enlargers I've been trying to sell, best I have done so far is GIVE three of them away, a Beseler 45MX and a couple of 23C II's, and I still have six more to get rid of. The market is just not there, and the situation worsens as we march along toward total Digidoom.

Sometimes the market is there, at realistic prices, but the difficulty in shipping them is a problem. I've seen several I'd have bought but the seller wouldn't/couldn't ship. I'm pretty much happy with my Omega DII, but I've been tempted by color enlargers. Maybe I'll find a color head for it. Even when the buyer is willing to pay the shipping no one wants to bother - which I understand as I doubt I would either if I were selling.

I agree about the prices here. I just paid $60 for a spare D2V complete with one negative carrier, one lens, a lens board, lens cone, and a nice grain focuser. I'm not sure it was a good idea but the grain focuser is worth probably $20 of that and with these old things spare parts can be handy to have.

Ken Nadvornick · Jan 12, 2012

I might gently offer that these days the best way to recoup the value of once-expensive equipment is through use of that equipment. Realistically, that may be the only way.

I will still purchase camera and darkroom items new sometimes. For instance, I recently purchased one of those Peak Model 1 grain magnifiers new from B&H, knowing full well that had I put it up for sale the very next day that I probably couldn't have gotten half what I paid for it -- and probably much less. But I justified it as a one-off lifetime purchase whose value will be realized only through use over (hopefully) many years to come.

I sense yours is an honest offering. I'd love to have the color lamphouse for my D5-XL. If I didn't live all the way on the other side of the country, I'd drive over this weekend and make you a fair market-value offer. But alas...

Ken

Jan11 · Jan 12, 2012

If I could realistically get my precious darkroom to its new owner myself, I would.
Making sure it gets a good home is half the battle for me.
I'm sure others might feel similarly about cameras and such too.
The work we do with our equipment is an extension of ourselves, at least for me.
I've already suffered a loss in posting the ad.

Thank you for all your insightful comments. I will keep reading.

bdial · Jan 12, 2012

Now that you're here, and paid your money, please consider participating in the forums. Hopefully it could turn part of your loss into a gain.
And, by the way, welcome to APUG!

Jan11 · Jan 12, 2012

I will! Thanks for the welcome!

26x30 · Jan 12, 2012

Nice twist, bdial!

Jan11 · Jan 24, 2012

Anyone know of a lab that might want to buy my darkroom equipment?

I am not able to do this kind of work anymore and preparing to empty my house to move.

All suggestions welcome!

Ken Nadvornick · Jan 24, 2012

I'll try to respond gracefully before anyone else jumps in and responds ugly...

Sadly, with the decline in market demand for traditional enlarging services most labs are disposing of their analog equipment. Often literally in the dumpster. It's the least costly way to get rid of stuff they can no longer use to generate money. It's the lucky piece of equipment that finds a home with someone who will use it. And it often finds that home free of charge, or darned close to that.

Ken

Sundowner · Jan 24, 2012

Seems that you're just going to have to lower the prices, to be honest. I bought most of my darkroom for $300, and that was about $5000 worth of equipment, had I bought it new. Sucks, but that's just how things are.

Were I in your position, I think I'd sell it one piece at a time...you might make a bit more on it that way.

Ken Nadvornick · Jan 24, 2012

Sundowner said:
I bought most of my darkroom for $300, and that was about $5000 worth of equipment, had I bought it new.

Same here. I purchased a full-sized, water-jacketed stainless steel 8x10 processing setup. Originally made by Arkay, it holds 4 1-gallon stainless deep tanks for hangers inside a purpose-built and plumbed stainless holding tank. Hooked up to my Hass Intellifaucet it makes a wonderfully precise temperature controlled setup. I love it. Especially when doing 24 4x5s at once.

As best I can tell, the equipment originally went for over $1,000. I think I paid $85. It did require some cleaning. But once cleaned it now looks and works like brand new.

Ken

clayne · Jan 24, 2012

Somebody on APUG in the NYC area or around it should pick this stuff up so it goes to a good home. Regardless of the relative pricing of this stuff in today's lemming-environment, it's still high quality equipment that deserves to be exercised and used with love.

Sundowner · Jan 24, 2012

I'd love to pick up a big enlarger for my LED project...or just have the color head for contrast control. Regardless, I agree that someone needs to make sure it finds a good home. It's too nice of a setup to let it go to waste.

GraemeMitchell · Jan 25, 2012

Jan11, I'm in Brooklyn and would possibly be interested in giving this equip. a new home. Honestly, I couldn't really pay much at all for it, but I'll come and pick it up and give it a new home. Don't want to seem like a scavenger, but as others have said, this sort of equipment is more like a give away right now.

I just saw a lab in the city sell a durst 1200 w/ an ilford 500 setup and 3 apo lenses for $200. That blew me away. One of the the labs I work with that still does tons of analog just picked up 3 complete d5 enlargers, but they were free from a university in long island.

But you can shoot me an email via the portfolio site below if you'd like.

ParkerSmithPhoto · Jan 26, 2012

A guy here in Atlanta just sold a Beseler 45 with the computerized dichro head, two lenses, three timers, tanks, reels, trays, etc for $100. Last month a guy sold a Beseler 45 with slightly more goodies and the AdjustTable for a whopping $140.

Roger Cole · Jan 26, 2012

ParkerSmithPhoto said:
A guy here in Atlanta just sold a Beseler 45 with the computerized dichro head, two lenses, three timers, tanks, reels, trays, etc for $100. Last month a guy sold a Beseler 45 with slightly more goodies and the AdjustTable for a whopping $140.

Wow.

If I want a colorhead or colorhead equipped enlarger, I guess I should start checking Craigslist regularly. Or was this advertised somewhere else?

adam211 · Jan 26, 2012

Roger Cole said:
Wow.

If I want a colorhead or colorhead equipped enlarger, I guess I should start checking Craigslist regularly. Or was this advertised somewhere else?

Sometimes enlargers are given away for free (literally) on craigslist. Beseler 23 CII's are regularly sold for ~$25 if no accessories or around $100 with everything. I'm looking for one myself, but waiting to get a deal with a 6x6 enlarger, tanks, lenses, trays, etc. I've seen one or two deals so far go for ~$75 and have been a little too late. If you are patient and able to wait it works well.

All that to say if you want to sell your equipment and make any sort of money, you have some pretty stiff competition.

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