What is this?

cliveh

Subscriber
Joined
Oct 9, 2010
Messages
7,551
Format
35mm RF

David Brown

Member
Joined
Feb 16, 2004
Messages
4,055
Location
Earth
Format
Multi Format
You bought a darkroom?

The device in the picture on the OP is a bracket for a Kodak "bullet" safelight - Model "B". http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/28920-REG/Kodak_1412212_Adjustable_Safelight_Lamp_Model.html

Clive: I did that a few years ago. Commercial Pro had gone digital and I got everything in his darkroom except the room itself. For $200US I brought home a Beseler enlarger, four Schneider Componon lenses, Delta1 sink, trays, tanks, washers, timer, safelights, paper, etc ...
 
OP
OP
Joined
Jan 16, 2010
Messages
1,685
Location
Atlanta, GA
Format
Medium Format
You bought a darkroom?

I bought everything in the darkroom that wasn't nailed down. The sink wasn't nailed down but had obviously been built in place. Short of ripping it apart there was no way to get it out of the door. Water control unit, filters and hoses all got stripped and brought home.

I kept digging and finding photo gear under piles of junk. "What's this? Stack of trays. And this? Another enlarger. Under that pile of magazines? A Zone VI print washer!"

The guy was a former architect who obviously loved large format, so I also got tons of books, including the all the Stroebel, Stone and Simmons view camera books. It was a sweet haul.
 
Cookies are required to use this site. You must accept them to continue using the site. Learn more…