Elwood 5x7?

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Nick Zentena

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• Jul 21, 2005

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Mike I'm still opening boxes but I think I found the masks. All they seem to be is home made cut outs to use with the glass 5x7 holder.

 

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• Jan 23, 2007

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An old thread I know but does anyone have a handy picture of an Elwood enlarger? 5x7 preferable but 8x10 would be OK.

Thank you,
Curt

 

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• Jan 24, 2007

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Don't know if it helps, Curt, but here is an old manual for the Elwood: http://www.cameraeccentric.com/html/info/elwood/elwood.html

 

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• Jan 24, 2007

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Yes, thank you.

 

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• Jan 24, 2007

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Elwood Enlarger Manual

I have a very comprehensive Elwood Enalrger manual from May 15, 1940,
covering their whole line of enlargers and accessories, as well as a price list.
It is 64 pages of well illustrated information information. This is not quite the right place to do this (selling stuff on a Forum), but I will sell this for $12.00, post paid

in the lower 48, and a coupla bucks for APUG.

I wish I could generously offer to post it, but I am so analogue that I don't
know how, a borderline computer illiterate.








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• Jan 24, 2007

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The Elwood 8x10 is big.

Dave Wooten said:

I have never seen the Elwood 8 x 10 does anyone have experience with that one.....I have heard they are not as monstrous as some enlargers....or would one be better off fitting a 4 x 5 bessler to 8 x 10 ?

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I have one, and when I was using it, I had to mount it on the floor, to get reasonable height in my 8ft ceiling room, and put my easel on the floor.

You need tall ceilings for the 8x10 if you want to work at waist level.
A 8x10 conversion for the Bessler 4x5 would be a better choice if you have
a ceiling height issue.

 

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• Jan 25, 2007

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I put my 8x10 Elwood on a stand 24" high. It just fits with the 8ft ceiling. One thing about the Beseler conversion you need to checkout is lens board size. Some of the modern 240-300mm 6 element f5.6 enlarging lenses are big. The Elwood board handles them with no problems. Not sure if Beseler users are stuck with only the factory 240 f9 lens.