WTF is THIS!?!?!?!?!?

[Lachlan Young]

Whilst wandering around Ebay I found THIS and I am wondering how on earth it works :confused: . Does it work using reflectance or what?

Very puzzled :confused: :confused: :confused:

Lachlan

 

[Pinholemaster]

The auto-focus Leitz enlargers I've used in the past use a cam to keep the image in focus as the head moves up and down. Perhaps this does too. It sure doesn't use anything high-tech!

 

[htmlguru4242]

Well that is interesting ... um I'd be a little scared to have something that looks liek THAT in my darkroom ...

Certainly not too high tech.

 

[Donald Qualls]

The way most auto-focus enlargers work is that you set the focus after loading a negative, then they stay in focus as you change the magnification. That makes it *much* easier to print a full frame, since you don't have to go through the maddening cycles of adjusting head height, adjusting focus, and finding you've overshot *again* -- it usually takes me 5-6 cycles to get close enough to a full frame print, if that's what I'm after.

 

[jimgalli]

Looks like you could fill it full of soapy water and check inner tubes for leaks.

 

[Lachlan Young]

Looks like you could fill it full of soapy water and check inner tubes for leaks.

What size of film d'ya think it takes - cos it looks like it could take a truly enormous neg.
Just right for the Cirkut?

Lachlan

 

[pentaxuser]

Whilst wandering around Ebay I found THIS and I am wondering how on earth it works :confused: . Does it work using reflectance or what?

Very puzzled :confused: :confused: :confused:

Lachlan

Must be old. I haven't seen electrical flex like this for years. Reminds me of the way little girls' had plaits in the 1950's before I realised there was a difference.

pentaxuser

 

[Lachlan Young]

Must be old. I haven't seen electrical flex like this for years. Reminds me of the way little girls' had plaits in the 1950's before I realised there was a difference.

pentaxuser

You worry me...

Lachlan

 

[Curt]

Maybe that's what happened to AA's horizontal enlarger.

 

[Peter Black]

Hi Lachlan

A quick Google tells me that Lancaster cameras were quarter plate (3.25 x 4.25 inches) so presumably the enlarger is as well. No mention of actual size, but the £15 postage seems reasonable if you wanted it!

 

[Earl Dunbar]

Lachlan: Just buy it, figure it out and let us know. And tell us how much water of the gods was required to make it work.

 

[paul ewins]

Don't bet on it being quarter plate, I've got a half-plate Lancaster Instantograph and I'm pretty sure they went past full plate.

 

[Skip]

I would guess that it a dual bulb diffusion light source - a bulb on each side with maybe an opal glass diffusion plate in front of each, maybe a mirror, to try an eliminate the hotspot a single bulb gives on a large neg... Somebody email the guy for a picture of the inside...

 

[benjiboy]

Dunno mate, still, I might buy it to be buried in when the time comes.

 

[Bill Mitchell]

It says that the lens is 4". So the negative size must be 1/8 plate or smaller. Probably enlarges to a fixed size paper. It's "autofocus" because it's fixed focus. The early Leica enlargers were just long boxes with a negative holder on one end, a paper holder on the other, and a fixed lens between - the light source was whatever you wanted to use (the sun?).