Truck full O' Enlargers and more... Cheap (Fillmore, CA.)

[Kino]

Wow. What a ton of photo gear; enlargers, timers, stat camera, lenses and camera bodies. Lot looks dirty and poorly stored, but enough there to be worth picking up if local to Fillmore, California.

Bid starts at $100 USD...

"4 Besler Print Maker 35 Lamphouse 6x7 Enlarger 83362 1 Logan Compact Matcutter 1 View Sonic EDD 15" 13.8 viewable Screen Color Monitor 3 Time-O-Lite Master 1 Time-O-Lite Professional 1 Omega E-99 Enlarger Timer 1 Time-O-Lite GR-72 2 Omega Pro-Lab Timer 1 Gra-Lab Universal Timer Model 171 1 Gra-Lab Timer 300 1 Gra-Lab Timer 168 2 Gra-Lab Darl Room Timer Model 300 1 Gra-Lab Universal Timer 1 Nuarc-Lens Board/Copy Board 94J65-24 1 Beseler 45MX EN61653 1 Beseler 45MCRX EN33339 2 Beseler 23 C Series II 1 Beseler Dichro 23 Colorhead 35-24270 1 Omega B-600 Lamphouse 474936 1 Beseler Model 23 C 23-8397 1 Dichroic Saunders/LPL 670 DXL 2 Dichroic Super Chrome D 1 Omega C-67 Enlarger 427556 1 Omega C-670 Modular Condenser System 1 Honeywell Nikor System 6x7 1 Photo Storage Cabinet 2 Holga Card Holder 1 Strip Printer 1 Panasonic CamCorder 18 Variety of Pentax K-1000/ME/Spotmatic Cameras 2 Variety of Yashica-D/Copal MXV 2 Variety of Yashica-FX-3 Super 3 Variety of Vivitar Cameras 4000/3300SE 2 Variety of Kalimar Camera K-90 1 Sony 700X 3 Variety of Minolta XE-S/XE-7/XG-1 2 Variety of Nikon FA/FM10 1 Edixa Flex 1 Pronto 4 Variety of Olympus OM-2/OM10/D-520 Zoom 9 Variety of AE-1/EOS Rebel/K2 Lenses/Misc Camera Accessories Misc Camera Equipment 1 Drier 3200 DevAppa"

Better have a big truck!

https://www.govdeals.com/index.cfm?fa=Main.Item&itemid=33&acctid=10038

 

[Kino]

Oh yeah... and the auction ends in less than a day!

Just the huge stainless sink is worth the effort!

 

[AgX]

Strange enough this is the second US school/university photo department dumping their stuff hinted at within a few weeks.

Based on what I am told about the attitude of US photo departments towards analog photography nothing of this kind should happen...

 

[Kino]

Strange enough this is the second US school/university photo department dumping their stuff hinted at within a few weeks.

Based on what I am told about the attitude of US photo departments towards analog photography nothing of this kind should happen...

This is wildly variable; many school districts have such inertia in their budgetary planning that they might just be implementing a digital photography program.

More likely, judging from the grime and dust on the equipment, the darkroom was removed long ago and has been in storage for years before being auctioned-off.

 

[mgb74]

From what I've seen, a school darkroom is dependent on there being a teacher who is committed to analog photography and is willing to put the time and effort (often uncompensated) to keep it running.

 

[mshchem]

Kinda sad, that stuff has probably been sitting for years. I bet there was a lot of kids used that equipment.

 

[Andrew O'Neill]

From what I've seen, a school darkroom is dependent on there being a teacher who is committed to analog photography and is willing to put the time and effort (often uncompensated) to keep it running.

Precisely! A colleague of mine will retire next year. The science teacher who "thinks" they'll be getting the job loves photography (has zero art/photo background but does the yearbook) has no intention of keeping the darkroom going. He is quite open about it. The darkroom will turn into storage, just like at another high school near by where that photo teacher went on sick leave (and has been gone for two years now). The young teacher "filling in" for her has no clue about darkroom photography and couldn't be bothered to learn (I've offered my services umpteen times)... that darkroom sits unused. I'm afraid after I'm gone, the young teacher salivating for my photo program has no intention of teaching darkroom either... so, sadly it'll be dead in my district in the very near future. You've got to have people who are passionate about the darkroom and supportive administrators to keep it going.

 

[firemachine69]

Precisely! A colleague of mine will retire next year. The science teacher who "thinks" they'll be getting the job loves photography (has zero art/photo background but does the yearbook) has no intention of keeping the darkroom going. He is quite open about it. The darkroom will turn into storage, just like at another high school near by where that photo teacher went on sick leave (and has been gone for two years now). The young teacher "filling in" for her has no clue about darkroom photography and couldn't be bothered to learn (I've offered my services umpteen times)... that darkroom sits unused. I'm afraid after I'm gone, the young teacher salivating for my photo program has no intention of teaching darkroom either... so, sadly it'll be dead in my district in the very near future. You've got to have people who are passionate about the darkroom and supportive administrators to keep it going.

It's not different than shop class, I'm sorry to say.

 

[Andrew O'Neill]

It's not different than shop class, I'm sorry to say.

All the shop classes in my district are humming along nicely.

 

[mgb74]

It's not different than shop class, I'm sorry to say.

That's even worse. I think shop class is more necessary than a darkroom in the grand scheme of things.

 

[waffles]

Omg that's nuts!! Someone got one hell of a deal!

 

[Sirius Glass]

Gee that is so close to me, but I do not have a place for a badly needed sink. So near yet so far.

 

[AgX]

Omg that's nuts!! Someone got one hell of a deal!

And that one was the only bidder...

But to be fair... we still got no odour photography.
In case that stuff all was moldy or smelly, there might have been in the worst case even those 110$ a lot seen the work to salvage even a few items.

 

[firemachine69]

All the shop classes in my district are humming along nicely.

That's fantastic, there's only one high school around here that has one left, and from what I gather, when the professor retires soon, that's it.

 

[DREW WILEY]

That list sounds like a lot of old amateur level stuff worth little. I've known of pro labs hauling a couple million bucks worth of top end gear to the dump because nobody wanted it, including not only optical and chemical lab equipment, but very expensive drum scanning and digital printing equipment that is itself obsolete. Here the problem isn't lack of interest, but the sheer unaffordability of commercial space. Schools already have enough, and I sure as heck can't pack any more stuff into my personal lab. What's ironic in this case is that the scrap metal value might be higher than what someone bids, especially for the sink. But then you'd have to deduct your expense to haul and dump the rest. A Sanford & Son project.

 

[AgX]

I still haven't found that sink.