ENLARGER LIST(new, old, continued, discontinued, all brands, all models))

[firecracker]

What about the BOGEN, Vivitar, Minolta, Nikon, Rollei enlargers?

Do you know their model numbers, types, etc?

 

[firecracker]

According to Minicam Magazine Vol 10, No. 12 (Sep 1947), these were the generally available enlargers:

BACO - MF up to 6x9 condenser
Curtis Color Film Enlarging Printer - for making 4x5 separation negatives from 35mm
De Jur Versatile Model I - MF up to 6x9 condenser
De Jur Versatile Model I - up to 3 1/4 square condenser
De Jur Professional - 4x5 condenser
Kodak Portable Miniature - 35mm and bantam condenser
Kodak Precision Enlarger A - 6x9 condenser
Kodak Precision Enlarger B - 4x5 1/2 diffusion
Eastman Autofocus Model D - 5x7 diffusion
Elwood A M Miniature - 6x9 condensing
Elwood B M Miniature - 35mm to 1 7/8 x 2 1/4 condensing
Elwood 5x7 Autofocus
Elwood SP-2 Special 5x7
Elwood Studio 5x7
Federal Models 312, 314, 315 - 6x9 condensing except 312, where it was an option
Federal Model 450 - 4x5
Leitz Focomat I-B
Keyzer cold light - 4x5
Marful Model 44 direct positive - enlarges copies from prints up to 4x5 to direct positives
National Cold Light Model G-33 - 4x5
Omega D-II
Peco 1a and 1b - 6x9 diffuser (1a) or condenser (1b)
Printex 4x5 - condenser
Saltzman 30W, 30WA, 30WR - 5x7 except 30WA 8x10
Skyview model DGE - 4x5 condenser
Solar Model 120 - 6x9 condenser
Solar Model 57 - 5x7 diffusion
Solar Model 45C - 4x5 condenser
Solar Autofocus - 6x9 condenser
Sunray Model D Arnold - 6x9 condenser
Sunray Model 45 Mastercraft - 4x5

I may have another reference from the 60's somwhere.

Wonderful!!! Thanks for the post and the labor for it.

 

[DBP]

Finally found my 1966 Photography Directory & Buying Guide. There are a lot more here, so I think I will just list manufacturers and models.

Here goes:

Agfa Gaveart
Varioscop 60
Varioscop 35/44

Ansco Enlarger Printer

Baco 41

Beseler
23 C-II
45 M
45 M-X
45 MB
45 MB-X
45 MCR-X
45 AFM
45 AF
45 H
45 HC
45 HA
45 HCA
57 MB
57 MB-x

Bogen
Color 69
Mini 35
Salon Special
Super 66 Color

Cinelarger
8-16
35mm

Duplikin Model II

Durst
606
609
M-35 Micromat
Auto-focus D-659 Duomat
Auto-focus U-70 Unomat
Auto-focus Laborator 54
Laborator L-1385
Laborator S-45
Laborator V-184
Newporter RS/35

Edilor

Elwood
C-2
SP-25
8x10 Autofocus

Fotolarger
Professional 100-DC
Master E
E-2
Merit III
Junior 1
Junior 2
Junior 35
Zenith 35

Graflex
Graflarger

Hansa
Prima 35
Model 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 [unimaginative name, even as enlargers go]

Johnson
Model 1
Model 2
V-5
Wray s-35

Kalimar
35-A
35-HP
635-P

Leitz
Focomat IC
Focomat IIC-color

Liesegang Rajah 5 [great name!]

Lott
135
240
290
311
450

Magnalux
Magnalux 35
Model 120
Magnalux Super

Meopta
Axomat 1a
Axomat 16
Magnifax Model II
Opemus IIa
Opemus Standard 6x6
Opemus 4x4

Minolta 3 in 1

Minori
2 1/4 x 2 1/4
2 1/4 x 3 1/4
4x5

Minox

Ocean

Paxomat
unnamed 35mm
Autofocus Model C

Paxos Model 6b

Paxota Model 35-S

Ponder and Best
Micro
35mm
11-D
4x5 Color

Primos
Testreflex 35
Testreflex 2 1/4 x 2 1/4
Junior 35 Autofocus
Professional 35 Autofocus
2 1/4 x 2 1/4 Autofocus
2 1/4 x 3 1/4 Autofocus

Rowi
66
Rowi 150
Rowi 153
Rowi 155

Simmon
Automega B-7
Automega D-3
Automega D3V Model 710
Automega E-5
Chromega D4
Omega B-8
Omega B-8XL
Omega B-22
Omega B-22 XL
Omega D-2
Omega D2V
Omega D2VXL
Omega E-6 Special

Solar
45CR
45DR
57 D
120
Solarmatic 120
Solarmatic 4x5

Spiratone
35
Model 35-C
4x5 Color PA
4x5 Color Professional
66
Model 66-2P
D356

Wards
Junior
Pro
Senior

That's all folks!

I think we can see why no one has ever tried to collect enlargers.

 

[edz]

F

Leitz
Focomat IC
Focomat IIC-color

A lot more!
http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~jq5t-ity/history.htm

And there were loads and loads of variations. Alone with the Focomat 1c I've seen dozens of variations: Column length (short, normal, long), column connectors (2 prong, various shaped 3 prong, some round, some square), light house (round to egg), tilt (single side, both side lock), baseboard (normal to large, wood to resopal), baseboard wiring functions, easel locking hardware (different variations and those without hardware such as the final white baseboard models), different paint (variations of black to gray hammertone)... and even among the negative masks I've found quite a few significant variations not only in the use of materials but also in thickness. In the decades they were made (from 1951 to the early 1970s) they did not remain constant. They were also "working tools" of drugstores and photo-shops and tended to get many modifications (by, among others, Leitz). Many just parts swapped about.. My working Ic, for instance, uses one of the last made long columns (gray) with a white painted over large wooden baseboard (including locking hardware), a single sided late 1950s head, era condensor and anti-newton disk (I think I might even be using the late model one and not its contemporary one that came with it).

I think we can see why no one has ever tried to collect enlargers.

They are large and even keeping to the small ones such as MINOX there were quite a few variations:

- MINOX Riga
- MINOX Modell 1 (Postwar, German, 1950-51, straight column)
- MINOX Modell 2
o Typ 2201 (1951-63). Various variations are known to exist including the main ones noted for their diffusor or lack of, metal band or lack of, lens mounting etc.
o Typ 2201 Color: these seem to have been just modified versions of the standard 2201 and thus too have variations. Detected samples, however, have been too small to really have a better picture.
o Typ 2202 . These are all colour variations of the Typ 2203
o Typ 2202. These have removable lens board and are commonly called Type-3. In the literature the earlier model 2 enlargers were called "Model 2" and these got called "Modell 2" (an extra l). Several sub variations mainly in the electrical connector for mains power and the logo.
o Typ 25401. These are the last models and lose the possibility to use the repro adapter (which was for decades out of production anyway) and the "wings" on the negative holder. They also got the "MINOX" objectives and, of course, flat masks. In the 1990 MINOX made around 30 or so enlargers from old spare parts and these have variations all over the map.

Just to collect MINOX brand enlargers (which are among the smallest) one would need at least a selection of no less than a dozen or two. This would occupy significant room--- a friend has been working on it. Try that with Leitz enlargers!

 

[jlehmus]

Durst B35

 

[GeorgesGiralt]

Hi !
MPP in Great Britain made a cuple of enlargers. De Vere was (is ) a maker of fine equipment too.
Do not forget the Kienzle, Kaiser, and Dunco all in Germany.
I think Rollei had made a couple too to get with the TLR.
And for the French built, add Priox and Rohen to the list.
I'm sure I miss some other names brand I know !

 

[payral]

In the US, Zone VI Enlargers Type 1 (4x5" max) and Type 2 (5x7" max) but with a 8x10" special head.

 

[GeorgesGiralt]

Do not forget the former Soviet Union, and East Block :
Krokus (Poland ?)
Poljot (Sp ? ) Russia
And still the impression I know more names/brands....

 

[GeorgesGiralt]

Another one still in business :
Dead Link Removed
If you have a lot of floor space, it is a really wonderfull machine for 8x10 and above...
Also, an historic French brand Gilles Faller has made wooden 8x10 enlarger. Oak I think.

 

[ricksplace]

I had a Testrite 4X5 enlarger. Still have a Vivitar E34 somewhere.

 

[BobBill]

Famous Brand Enlarger Missing

Kodak, Flurolite, for 35. Was pro grade (newspapers) with fluorescent (diffusion) illumination. Built like a tank, and about as heavy. Kodak made a large format version, which I gave away. This one has custom machined board for various Nikkor lenses. Hasty pic.

 

[Trond]

IFF (Industria Fototecnica Firenze) made enlargers:

Some models:
Eurogon 4x5
Ampliator 5x7
Duogon

 

[cmacd123]

The Chinese and the former soviet union made a few. I recall one 35mm Job that folded into a suitcase.

The Japanesse also made a lot of "private label" units. My old timer is a "PIXUR" Sold by Garlick Films of Toronto but I don't know the original source. It did come with a PIXUR lens too.

LPL sold many enlargers under different names in Different counties. I have a LPL 67D which has a colection of "saunders" and "Nikkor" negative carriers.

 

[DELTA1DSV]

MINOX 2203 SUB MIN ENLARGER and cameras

Hi,

I have a load of Excellent Minox sub min camersa, tanks and 1 excellent condition
2203 enlarger, its complete, with a good bulb, (last time used 2 years again, kept well in packed box (in central heated store room, I'v change over to Digital Leica now
so willing to part, also a couple of miinox user books , film cuter, etc,
if any one is interested (UK based for enlarger,(because of weight,) overseas no problem for any small bits,
conditions and photos available, thanks go Youtube for camera stuff channel
DELTAIDSV
Thanks

 

[Jean Noire]

Hi,
I don't see De Vere on the list?
I have a model 302 dating back to the forties I think, but there is also a 203, 405, 504 and quite a large number of other models. I think if you google "Odyssey enlargers" or try www.odyssey-sales.com/company/de-vere.asp, but I don't know if they are in business any more, you will find a large number of models quoted there,

Regards,
John

 

[Peter de Groot]

I don't know about the need since the thread was started 5 years ago but I recently got a Kinderman 4x5 enlarger. And that is all I know. But I am curious to know if the Japanese government actually went ahead with their strange ideas?