Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/02/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I can give you more details should you wish. Cheers On 07/02/2006, at 21:02, Nick Roberts wrote: > Thank you, Alastair. I'm in the process of setting up > a darkroom again after many years of purely digital > printing - not because I'm not happy with the digital > process - I am - but just because I want to (I'll > probably expand on that elsewhere). I can't really > spare the space for more than one enlarger (although > they're so cheap s/h these days it's not fincancially > out of the question), so it's just a case of deciding > if I want to limit myself to printing from 120 and > 35mm, both of which I'm reasonably familiar with and > which cover 90% of my requirements between them, or if > I want to go the whole hog and get the De Vere. You've > given me plenty of food for thought! > > Nick > > --- Alastair Firkin <firkin@ncable.net.au> wrote: > >> Well, compared with the V35 it is cumbersome. No >> Autofocus, the >> negative holder is OK, but if the neg has a curl at >> all, its very hard >> to put it in position (6x6 negs especially). I don't >> mind the focus >> mechanism and the height adjustments are fine, the >> light boxes I have >> seem good, though the light to illuminate the colour >> dials is caput. I >> have an Ilford 500 head for b/w and changing it for >> the colour is a bit >> of a fiddle, quite apart from it being soooo heavy. >> The transformers >> are large, the colour head has its own timer, but >> I'd prefer to be able >> to use my Jobo 7000 to set it off. The Ilford head >> produces enough heat >> to melt the poles (not Devere's fault I realize). >> Changing neg size >> involves changing the carrier plates, and if you are >> not careful, you >> "lose" the top plate when pulling it out (mine is >> now glass, so I've >> taped the hole to stop me doing this again) Changing >> neg sizes requires >> using differing light boxes - no big deal, but you >> have to have >> somewhere to store them. >> >> In reality, I enjoy using it and the results are >> fine, but its not a >> fast easy solution, and I would not use it for 35mm >> often. >> >> My only comparison was a Durst 6x6 enlarger, which >> was less "fussy". >> > > > > > ___________________________________________________________ > Win a BlackBerry device from O2 with Yahoo!. Enter now. > http://www.yahoo.co.uk/blackberry > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > Alastair