How many enlargers do you have?

MattKing · Mar 26, 2022

albada said:
Reading about folks with four or more enlargers, I must ask, "Where do you put them?" My Beseler MCX (yes, MCX) alone consumes half a table. But 4+ enlargers?! Of course, collecting classic cars eats even more space.

If you take the baseboards and light sources off and store them separately, they stand awkwardly in a corner of a lot of storage spaces.
And my operating enlarger is right beside me now, on its rollaway cart, between our shared desk and office storage shelf.

BMbikerider · Mar 26, 2022

Well you did ask.

I have three and a half! A LPL 7700 in working order. A spare LPL 7700 head and transformer. A LPL 6700 in working order and bringing up the rear, a Meopta B&W condenser enlarger with a modified raised column to allow me to print over 12x16. The Meopta is my 'weapon of choice' when it comes to printing B&W.,

The 6700 and the spare head are in storage but the other two are in the darkroom.

Joel_L · Mar 26, 2022

They are living room decoration of course

(Reading about folks with four or more enlargers, I must ask, "Where do you put them?" My Beseler MCX (yes, MCX) alone consumes half a table. But 4+ enlargers?! Of course, collecting classic cars eats even more space.)

Sirius Glass · Mar 26, 2022

Enlargers are quite useful for hanging clothes.

albada · Mar 27, 2022

Sirius Glass said:
Enlargers are quite useful for hanging clothes.

And with 200+ watts radiating from it, those clothes will dry fast.

mshchem · Mar 27, 2022

I have 5 setup. All are used, and only by me.

Pitotshock · Mar 27, 2022

I have 4 total, three setup in the darkroom and one of them is a spare parts backup for my Omega C chromega. This day and age it is very easy to get carried away buying/accepting enlargers, I try and not fall into the trap of trying to save them from the dump.

Pitotshock · Jun 12, 2022

Pitotshock said:
I have 4 total, three setup in the darkroom and one of them is a spare parts backup for my Omega C chromega. This day and age it is very easy to get carried away buying/accepting enlargers, I try and not fall into the trap of trying to save them from the dump.

Found a DeVere 504 so I have to add another one to the pile. I guess I haven't been trying hard enough to say no to new enlargers. But, this one was a DeVere...
I'm definitely going to sell the two Omega C.

Sirius Glass · Jun 12, 2022

Still just one and that is enough. 4"x5" Chromega Dichoric II 5D-XL

Michel Hardy-Vallée · Jun 12, 2022

I've been a one-enlarger man for the longest time (Vivitar VI dichroic for 35mm and 6x6), but recently I added to my setup a Beseler 23CII. It was my dad's, and now I can do 6x7 and 6x9.

MattKing · Jun 12, 2022

I was at 1, then I went up to 2, then down again to 1, and now up to 3.
The oldest 1 I've owned since the 1970s, and it would still be fully functional if it didn't take more space to use and store than I currently have available. The most recently acquired 2 have smaller physical footprints and are duplicates, except they offer different light sources. Their usability duplicates my oldest, so I should probably sell the oldest.

Louis Nargi · Jun 12, 2022

I have Two a Durst M601 and a Omega D2 that I use and another Omega I don't use. It need a bellows

RalphLambrecht · Jun 12, 2022

I do all my printing in my local camera club now; and yhere, I have up to six enlargers but rare use more than one.

logan2z · Jun 12, 2022

I'm up to three. I recently bought an LPL 670DXL and I still have a Beseler 23CII XL and a Leica Focomat v35 (which I still need to fix due to an intermittent flicker).

Down Under · Jun 13, 2022

In the early '00s I took (I hope temporary) leave of my mental senses and bought up big, anything and everything I could find that I wanted. In 2012 when I retired, some degree of sanity returned and I began selling off a lot of stuff.

Of the six enlargers I had ten years ago - I'll not list them as I've I've wiped all that mental detritus from the hard disk between my ears - by 2020 I had only two - a wonderful old Leitz Focomat 1c with an Ilford Multigrade filter head I paid far too much money for and almost never used, also an LPL 7700 with a B&W filter head and a heap of useful accessories. Then an offer I just couldn't pass up came by way, and in December '20 I sold the Leitz along with three-quarters of my darkroom, many boxes of RC paper and chemistry I hadn't done anything with, and a fair few old cameras I'd too long left unloved and gathering dust.

Now I use only the LPL 7700 and I'm entirely satisfied with my minimalist set-up. I still have far too much gear but my small darkroom will see me through (I hope), especially as I kept enough basic chemicals and FB paper to ensure I can make good prints from the several thousand archived negatives I want to put to paper before I shuffle off to wherever.

I wish I had done it many years ago. In fact I wish I had never ever invested so much money in all those enlargers

kinglang · Jun 21, 2022

apo-componon hm,
apo rodagon n,
symmar-s,

faberryman · Jun 21, 2022

I have one enlarger which handles formats up to 4x5. I do not have any cameras which accept film beyond 4x5, so I have no need for any other enlargers.

People collect all kinds of things for reasons even they can't explain.

Sirius Glass · Jun 21, 2022

faberryman said:
I have one enlarger which handles formats up to 4x5. I do not have any cameras which accept film beyond 4x5, so I have no need for any other enlargers.

People collect all kinds of things for reasons even they can't explain.

Even I cannot get fired up about having more than one enlarger. In fact years ago an APUG member, we were APUG then, was moving from Los Angeles to Florida and he asked me to take three or four enlargers and sell them for myself and I turned him down for lack of room to store them.

TheFlyingCamera · Jun 21, 2022

Never more than two, but currently just one. Probably the last one I will ever own, certainly the last one I need (especially since I don't do much enlarging any more). Current enlarger is a Beseler 45V-XL, with an Oriental VC-CLS cold light head. I've had other Beseler enlargers in the past - two different 23C models, and an old 45mx of some flavor, as well as a Philips medium format color enlarger with the additive color head. Never really got to use that one. My first ever was an Omega B22.

Guillaume Zuili · Jun 26, 2022

I have 3 Omega and 1 Focomat 1c.
- D5XL rigged for 20x24in with 120 film
- D6 rigged for 20x24in with 4x5 film
- D2 rigged for 11x14in.
The Focomat is the one I almost dont use anymore with a UV burner that takes too much place.
But the Omega's are used almost everyday.

Luis-F-S · Mar 30, 2023

I have 6 but only use 2 the rest are in storage. A DeVere 5108 and a 4x5 LPL. My main enlarger is the DeVere.

Andrew O'Neill · Mar 30, 2023

I have one. A 4x5 Fujimoto (with Aristo VC4500 head). It's in mothballs, as I'm mainly into alt printing. I'm hanging on to it as you never know... I may want to make a gelatin silver print again one day...

Kino · Mar 30, 2023

Well I am down one Omega B66 after giving my wife's cousin a complete B&W darkroom.

Enlarger, trays, safe lights, timers, chemicals, tongs, developing tanks, a box of paper, other odds and ends and a Voightlander Vito 2b outfit.

She was thrilled and promised to use it; not to let it rot or sell it off.

See. I do have a reason to collect all that stuff in the first place...

Sirius Glass · Mar 30, 2023

Still only one.

Kino · Mar 30, 2023

Sirius Glass said:
Still only one.

You need to get on the stick; you're wayyyy behind...

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