Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/03/09

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Subject: RE: [Leica] ?: 35mm/MF enlarger recommendation
From: Richard Chandler <rchandler@hainc.com>
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2001 11:18:09 -0700
References: <Pine.NEB.4.30.0103091154040.1360-100000@bronze.lcs.mit.edu>

The Omega C67 is supposed to be pretty substantial.  I haven't seen one in
awhile, although I had a friend who was a fairly serious darkroom worker
who swore by his.  As I recall, it has a very sturdy upright girder, along
the lines of the D-series uprights.

Dick Chandler

At 09:18 AM 3/9/01 -0800, you wrote:
>Do NOT buy a Omega B22.  Flimsy to say the least.
>
>Decide if you will print on Color or B+W paper.....
>
>The Beseler 23C family is particluarly robust ( $100-200 )and I have owned a
>couple.   The Nikor 6x7 and Saunders Enlargers have looked good to me....
>
>Durst M600 is OK at best....  Maybe that would also be on my NO list.
>
>If you were ever to use 4x5 the choices get not more expensive, but more
>broad... the Beseler 45 and Omega D2 through D6 are all good choices, but
>bigger, mmore space and height are needed..
>
>Frank Filippone
>red735i@earthlink.net
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