Now that's an enlarger! . . . 4x6 . . . FEET!

[trythis]

http://stlouis.craigslist.org/bfs/4637932240.html

 

[Ken Nadvornick]

No price. I guess if ya' gotta' ask...



Ken

 

[summicron1]

big whoop. The Forest Service's mapping and aerial photography division in Salt LakeCity used to have equipment that made wall-size enlargements of aerial photographs. I saw them making one once, guy in the darkroom was using a 3-foot paddle to dodge the image.

 

[Jeff Kubach]

That is a hell of an enlarger!

Jeff

 

[Muihlinn]

Not that big. The enlarger itself is pretty compact.

 

[Rick A]

It makes prints up to 4x6 feet, hell I can do that at home already.

 

[gone]

Won't fit in my bathroom.

 

[paul_c5x4]

Doesn't say what film formats it will accept. I think I'll pass on it...... Not that I could afford the shipping.

 

[DREW WILEY]

I was once GIVEN a beautiful unit 22 feet long, with a focus bellows so big you could walk thru it like a tunnel. Came from an industrial remodel,
something left behind from another era. No place for it, so I kept the apo lenses and precision pin-registered vac easel. The rest went to the dump. What a shame. The thing probably cost a fortune originally.

 

[AgX]

Not 4x6 feet.

I assume it to be 10x10 Inch.


And as said, some of us have that print-size capacity too in their darkrooms.

What is huge is the whole assembly. (How to smuggle that into your home...)

 

[trythis]

Not 4x6 feet.

I assume it to be 10x10 Inch.


And as said, some of us have that print-size capacity too in their darkrooms.

What is huge is the whole assembly. (How to smuggle that into your home...)

It shows print size of 48" x 72"

 

[MattKing]

It shows print size of 48" x 72"

Enlargers are usually described in terms of the size of their "negative" capacity, not the size of their "print" capacity.

In other words, the item you linked to is probably able to enlarge from a negative as big as 10" x 10".

 

[Mark_S]

My brother used to work with a process camera which looked a lot like that - it was set up with the film back built into a wall, one side of which was a darkroom - the film - which in his case was 11x14 was held in something like a vacuum easel. On the other side of the wall was the bellows and lens, and then a pair of tracks to an easel which would hold the subject to be photographed. The subject usually ranged from being 8"x10" at the smallest to 48"x72" at the largest - image size was always 11x14. You would set up the camera, then go into the darkroom, load the film, expose and process the film. He used the setup to do colour separations of artwork into various different specific colour spaces by using different filters and always shooting onto B&W film.

 

[EdSawyer]

Plus it is a rectifying enlarger, designed for tilts and shifts for image correction. Clearly a pretty rare piece.

 

[AgX]

A Durst 184 or 1840 for instance can rectify images too.
Well, they are beasts too.

 

[trythis]

Enlargers are usually described in terms of the size of their "negative" capacity, not the size of their "print" capacity.

Learned something new! Thanks

 

[AgX]

It's quite a set up. They have a very large roll paper dispenser in the background of one of the photos.

That grey cabinet standing on a black one?