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Re: [Digital BW] OT: b&w darkroom for sale

2004-08-06 by Randy Rancier

Why not make digital inkjet negatives using Dan Burkholder's methods 
and do contact prints. That's what I'm planning on doing when I need 
a "glossy dried matte silver fix" as well as non-silver processes.
Randy

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Mark Savoia 
<mark@c...> wrote:
> You would think there might be a market out there if someone would 
come 
> out with an affordable color/bw enlarger head that accepts digital 
> files and we can all get back into the darkrooms for a while. I 
know 
> the DeVere 504 exists but at $30,000. Something that would fit on 
an 
> old Omega or Besseler chassis. Come on, anyone! I'd pay at least 
$1000 
> for one just to smell fixer again.
> Mark
> 
> On Aug 6, 2004, at 4:23 PM, Kip Babington wrote:
> 
> > Similar experience here this past spring.  I managed to sell the 
> > lenses,
> >  lensboards and negative carriers on Ebay.  But the rest of the 
stuff 
> > went
> >  to my kids' high school (which was delighted to receive it) 
except 
> > for the
> >  1940s era GraLab timer that was my father's.  Couldn't give away 
the 
> > 45MCRX
> >  chassis, though - I may end up cutting it up with a torch and 
> > throwing it
> >  out piecemeal in the garbage just to get it out of my way.  
(I've 
> > already
> >  called the local colleges and they don't want it either.)
> >
> >  Cheers,
> >  Kip
> >
> >  At 8/6/2004 11:54 AM -0700, you wrote:
> >  >I had the same enlarger and a much more extensive setup (tem 
> > control, lots
> >  >of lenses, etc.).  A year ago, in a fairly large city, I 
couldn't 
> > find a
> >  >buyer for it at any price.  I donated the whoe works to the 
local 
> > high
> >  >school.  They were still teaching photography the old fashioned 
way, 
> > thank
> >  >goodness.
> >  >
> >  >Tom Baker
> >
> >
> >
> >
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