ic-racer said:.... and sell the others.
ricksplace said:You may want to check and see if your 23C has the conical light integrator installed. It's a little plastic thingy that directs the light from the dichro colour head so you can use the condensors with the colour head. If it's not there, the colour head must be used with the diffuser instead of the condensors.
I would keep the 23 with color head, and if I could, keep the other 23. Maybe dismantle it to reduce space or just keep the cold light head. You probably won't get much if you sell it, however, if you need a part, will pay a lot.
Good Luck
Jim
I find that having access to two enlargers (which I usually don’t I’m afraid) makes it a lot easier to do pre and post flashing. On the other hand that can be done with other contraptions as well.
What's pre and post flashing?
Hello everyone! New here. Backstory - I've been doing digital photography for years, but as you all know, one loses that visceral feeling with pixels and option menus. You can't hang a jpeg on the wall. Your grasp of zones and exposure are lost, replaced by some whizbang 3D matrix E/I-TTL v.2 metering.
So I've gone backwards. I am doing community college courses on black and white film photography. My skills in the darkroom are rudimentary at best for now. At the present moment, I won't be able to set up my very own darkroom, but that should change within a year or so. I've done some shopping, via Craiglist, word of mouth, etc. Currently, I am the owner of 3 enlargers. All are in pretty good and functional condition, I suppose.
For the moment and for as long as I can tell, I'm sticking with B&W. I shoot 35mm, mostly Tri-X 400 or T-Max 100 with a Nikon FM2N. (I still have the fancy digital camera; it's collecting dust.) I might be going into MF, but not very likely, since I love doing street photography. Hence, B&W - since color is often distracting for the genre.
- A Beseler 67cs with a condenser head. It has two vertical beams holding up the enlarger, and stands about 3 feet tall from base to top.
- A Beseler 23CII XL - while the condenser head is there, its innards have been taken out. It's been replaced by this flourescent doodad that looks like a long thin white worm folding back and forth, eventually taking the shape of a circle. That compartment where you stick the contrast filters has become useless, since it sits above the flourescent light. It has the same vertical beams and basebaord as the 67cs.
- A Beseler 23CIII XL, but with a color head. There's these three knobs with which you can adjust the levels of yellow, magenta, and cyan. This one stands about four feet tall.
I really love the "glow," or dreamy look. I could never really get it down right in the darkroom without looking blurry and cheesy, but one day.... Yes, I know Nikon AIS lenses are not at all conducive to producing a glow in prints. I'm comfortable with grain - it often adds a certain gritty-ness. You know there are Photoshop plugins that can put the effects of various films into digital files?
I mostly enlarge to 8X10, occasionally 11x14.
"Keep all 3," you may say. Well, for various reasons which we won't get into, I really can't.
I appreciate the help. Great forum by the way.
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