Does someone know how this enlarger is called?

[samhuwyler]

Hello everyone

I recently purchased an enlarge on a local auction platform.
The brand is Omag but I don't know what Model it is.

Can someone please identify it?

Thank you and cheers from Switzerland
Sam

 

[goros]

What I have been able to find out of the internet is the following:

Omag was a part of the Wild-Heerbrugg companies (http://www.rugarchives.org/2002-05/00455.html). At this link, scroll down to year 1957, where you will find enlarger VG1. There is another rectifier-enlarger in 1962, but it doesn't look like the one you show. So it would presumibly be a VG1 model.

 

[gone]

That thing is worth owning even if it didn't work for the clean minimalistic design. Genius.

The head movement is very similar to a Durst.

 

[goros]

On the other hand, I have also found this:
http://people.csail.mit.edu/tieu/stuff/Thompson1968ProjectiveTheoryRelativeOrientation.pdf

Look at page 3, where both VG1 enlarger and E4 rectifier-enlarger are together. Neither of them look like yours :-(

 

[AgX]

To my knowledge Wild never made consumer enlargers. They seemingly employed the Omag factory as additional factory for their industrial/scientific products.
That enlarer likely was made before Wild took over Omag in 1947.

 

[samhuwyler]

Thanks for your help

So I found an entry in an archive.
Omag (Optik und Mechanik AG) was a swiss company founded somewhere around 1925.
I'll try to get a Product list or something.

Cheers
Sam

 

[AgX]

But why do you want to know the model name?
Maybe it only was "the Omag enlarger".

 

[samhuwyler]

But why do you want to know the model name?
Maybe it only was "the Omag enlarger".

I don't have the enlarger yet and to pass the time till I get it, I wanted to gather some information.
I thought maybe someone here knows something about this enlarger.
I searched the web for quit some time and even went to the 3rd (!!!) page of google search and nothing useful came up, so I guess I'll just have to wait till I can hold her in my own hands.

Thanks y'all.

Cheers
Sam

 

[AgX]

3rd page of Google search... guess what other people did.

 

[samhuwyler]

3rd page of Google search... guess what other people did.

...just a figure of speech.
I went way beyond the 3d page.

 

[AgX]

I have to admit I did not know about that enlarger before, and concerning Omag I once came them across looking into the Wild history, but forgot about them the next day...

 

[JustinP]

Hi Sam, did you find out anything more about your Omag? I have come into possession of one recently and wondered whether it was a collectors item given it's apparent rarity.