For Sale Nashville - 8x10 DeVere

ParkerSmithPhoto · Jan 29, 2016

This guy in Nashville is selling a yuuuge 8x10 DeVere 5108 enlarger with all the trimmings. Looks pretty sweet.

mitch brown · Jan 30, 2016

yes I saw it the other day . if I could sneak away from home for a day I would be tempted to go buy it , don't know where I would set it up but I do have a grain silo that empty that could hold it.
mitch

jamespierce · Jan 30, 2016

Fantastic chance for someone to get ALL the hard to find and required bits to make serious 8x10 prints. A setup like that is all but impossible to find out here in Australia and we end up spending far more than that to collect pieces one at a time.

TheToadMen · Jan 30, 2016

This is a beautiful set-up. Please someone get this. I bought this enlarger myself some time ago and it's a beauty.
I converted mine into a wall mounted model. Wasn't that difficult.

wildbill · Jan 30, 2016

The sad part is that they'll end up giving it away. I paid $100 for my 8x10 color enlarger.

gone · Jan 30, 2016

Very, very nice. The enlarger looks a tad overbuilt perhaps? Looks as if it was designed for much more rugged things than simply going up and down. Those two hand wheels for the bed remind me of something out of a machine shop.

wildbill · Jan 30, 2016

you think that's overbuilt? check out the fotar 10x10
I have the same one but with a chromega head. We had to move it in multiple pieces. The legs are 94lbs a piece.

ambaker · Jan 30, 2016

Nashville is about a 5 hour drive from here. The spirit is willing, but the checkbook is weak.

-More cameras than brains... Sadly it didn't take very many.

jamespierce · Jan 30, 2016

Enlargers have to be progressively more overbuilt as you go up with formats to maintain stiffness, rigidity and squareness etc. I'm more familiar with the Durst stuff but the 6x6 ones have a little flat bit of metal with plastic teeth as the column... The 4x5 ones are metal but still pretty basic... 5x7 gets a single huge metal tube and all the 10x10 (8x10) models have double metal columns etc and they still flex abit when the whole head is moving... The head / mixing box and neg stage is a two person lift to get it on.

Luis-F-S · Jan 30, 2016

Real professional enlargers are built to give many years of professional use. That's why so many 40-50 year old Dursts are still around and working fine. My 5x7 Durst SM-183 circa 1980 has the 8x10 base and double column and is stiffer than my circa 1994 8x10 DeVere 5108. The DV has to be attached to the wall at the top to get the stiffness. The Durst is much steadier free standing. If you have never printed on a 5x7 or 8x10 Durst, a De Vere, Chromega F, or Fotar, than you don't have anything to compare the non-professional enlargers to. I've owned all of these three except for the Fotar. Of them, the De Vere is by far my favorite and the enlarger I presently use. The Chromega F I sold 20 plus years ago, and the Durst is stored until I can get a larger darkroom.

Luis-F-S · Jan 31, 2016

wildbill said:
The sad part is that they'll end up giving it away. I paid $100 for my 8x10 color enlarger.

Not quite Vinny I spent a lot less than that on mine but no where near $100! Unless he's very luck he'll split it up and take offers.

TheToadMen · Jan 31, 2016

wildbill said:
The sad part is that they'll end up giving it away. I paid $100 for my 8x10 color enlarger.

I paid $800 for my 8x10 enlarger, without all those extras.

Luis-F-S · Jan 31, 2016

TheToadMen said:
I paid $800 for my 8x10 enlarger, without all those extras.

About what I paid for mine, but I did get 3 lens boards, the 8x10 carrier and inserts down to 6x7. I bought the 6x6 & 35 mm inserts separately. Already owned the lenses.

jamespierce · Jan 31, 2016

For most people the $ price of the enlarger be it $500 or $5000 is neither here nor there compared to the cost of the paper, film and the darkroom you will need to make use of it !

Roger Cole · Jan 31, 2016

jamespierce said:
For most people the $ price of the enlarger be it $500 or $5000 is neither here nor there compared to the cost of the paper, film and the darkroom you will need to make use of it !

Yabut...most of us on here probably already have the darkroom and a stock of paper, chems etc. And the $5000 would be more than I have in total in my darkroom including the 4x5 Omega enlargers (two of them, actually, one working well and one for parts) the LED lamphouse, my Jobo processor and all my tanks, even including the construction costs in my basement! (No plumbing yet - which will of course be a chunk of change.)

I don't have $4500 burning a hole in my pocket but I'd buy one for $800 or less IF I a) had a way to get it here, and b) a place to put it. How much ceiling height does that thing need anyway? I do have a drop ceiling in my basement darkroom so I could always pull out a panel and gain a couple of feet....

Nah. Even at $800 now isn't a good time. But I hope someone gets this who will put it to good use.

Luis-F-S · Jan 31, 2016

jamespierce said:
For most people the $ price of the enlarger be it $500 or $5000 is neither here nor there compared to the cost of the paper, film and the darkroom you will need to make use of it !

I don't know about you, but I think that for most people there's a really big difference between $500 & $5,000. I can promise you I would not have bought my DeVere if it were $5K. I think for most people who have the room and want a real large format enlarger, under $1K is much more doable than $5K.

I paid $2,000 for my SM-183 in 1992 and I'm keeping it because I just don't think I could get that out of it, although it is a great enlarger. The market is just not there any more. But, if some is interested in it at that price, kindly step forward and PM me.

jamespierce · Jan 31, 2016

Perhaps $500 to $5000 was unfair ... but if you are seriously shooting 8x10 in any volume then you are going through a fair amount of film, travel time, studio time, setup and planning etc... Not to mention needing 3m of height in your darkroom. That setup isn't just an enlarger, it includes things like the Saunders 20x24 easel which is worth a chunk of change by it's self.

I paid $2000 for my 8x10 Durst enlarger. Building a darkroom to do it justice has cost far more than that.

Peter Rockstroh01 · Jan 31, 2016

Yes, that's what I'm looking for ! Let' see... Nashville is how many hours from here ? Its twenty six hours to Panama ... twentyfour to cross the canal ...sixteen to Costa Rica ... eleven to Nicaragua ... Wait ?

Luis-F-S · Feb 1, 2016

Peter Rockstroh01 said:
Yes, that's what I'm looking for ! Let' see... Nashville is how many hours from here ? Its twenty six hours to Panama ... twentyfour to cross the canal ...sixteen to Costa Rica ... eleven to Nicaragua ... Wait ?

Or you could have it crated and shipped to you.................if the price were right.

Luis-F-S · Feb 1, 2016

jamespierce said:
I paid $2000 for my 8x10 Durst enlarger. Building a darkroom to do it justice has cost far more than that.

Yes, my darkroom ran a little North of 11K but I think most people who contemplate an 8x10 enlarger, either already have a darkroom to accommodate it or are planing on one. My poor Durst sat in pieces for 7 years until I could build the darkroom around it! Wasn't fun when I changed over to the De Vere getting it out and the DV into the darkroom through a 24" wide doorway, but it worked. The only thing that won't fit through the doorway is the print drying cabinet. So if I ever move, I'll have to take the door frame off to get it out. Oh well, the door was free........sort of.

Peter Rockstroh01 · Feb 1, 2016

Luis-F-S said:
Or you could have it crated and shipped to you.................if the price were right.

If I was living in my own house, there would be no doubt, but here I don't even have space for a basic darkroom. That is certainly a gorgeous setup.

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