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

[Roger Cole]

Well yes, they turn up, but folks don't want to ship them even if I'm willing to pay the money, thus my comment about needing to check Craigslist. I did that for a while but was so disgusted with ads for equipment in sad shape or posted by people who hadn't a clue what it was or that it WAS in sad shape etc. that I sort of drifted away from it.

And as I shoot 4x5 whenever I have time, a Beseler 23 wouldn't be something I'd snatch up. Excellent enlarger, but I have an Omega DII/2 (someone put a D2V variable lamphouse on a II chassis - and I recently bought a "spare" D2 crank chassis, so eventually I'll make a "frankenlarger" out of the two) so I'm set. I've never owned or printed with a color head and printed plenty of color with filters. A tad slower but really pretty insignificant compared to the total process time. Mostly I want one for BW printing, oddly enough, for the diffusion light source. I have an old cold light head but it has the usual warm up and drift issues and more importantly is WAY too blue for VC paper. I tried a diffusion panel over the lower condenser which works, but cuts printing speed intolerably. So...I print with a condenser until the right one comes along.

 

[Jan11]

Thank you everyone for being so kind and trying to spare my feelings.

I know we are in a digital age but film is film. Hollywood still uses film
and will continue even with the bankruptcy of Kodak. They are scrambling
to keep film alive!

Anyway, point is, all advice is well received and thanks given.

 

[ParkerSmithPhoto]

Wow.

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

HEy Rog,

One was on Craigslist and the other was eBay local pickup. I was honestly shocked at how low it can go. Both of these were "just add chemistry" setups. Unreal.