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There's an 35mm enlarger on offer in the Freebies section.
The offer's in the right place.
Just giving the Darkroom Denizens a heads-up.
Thats a 6x7 enlarger posted by someone called Quendil...
Though I am definitely going down the film processing route, GAS is often the reason we buy equipment just to prove to ourselves that we didn’t need it anyway, we just thought we did.Gear Acquisition Syndrome .
It's endemic in this part of the internet.
I looked at this too, but it is 35mm only and in Cornwall, so too far.
Now if anyone had a freebie that did 6x6 or 6x7 as well as 35mm, that would be different
I haven't checked the enlarger spec, but it's more likely to be the condensors. I have a Philips colour enlarger that will do 6x7, but only if the 6x7 condensors are used. I have the 35mm ones. My Durst enlarger has separate condensors for different film sizes, and I had to buy the 6x7 ones years ago. My LPL is a diffuser enlarger, but still has different diffuser boxes for the different film sizes.
hes only got the 35mm carrier ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
I've re-read the thread (and the one in the freebies) and missed this post. Where does he say it? All I could see was the "it only does 35mm" statement.
It would have been helpful though if you'd said that that piece of information wasn't availble on this forum.
I'm just gonna go put my head in the oven...
yes, extremely generous David, I'm surprised its not been taken, but then you are living abroad.
I would definitely have it but the great Jox exodus to sunny foreign climbs doesn't start till July.
mebbe I should pay you storage...lol
unless the OP has something more to add, its a 6x7 enlarger that requires nothing but the correct carrier for the format you want to enlarge and a little tlc for the filter mechanism.
that is, it will enlarge any sized negative with the correct carrier or the universal carrier, up to 6x7.
it doesn't need condensers, just because its bought with only a 35mm carrier doesn't mean it won't enlarge 6x7, it will......with the right carrier, that's what it is built to do.
Sorry to have muddied the waters
My post addresses Quendil David, who for his sins, lives in the beautiful yet galactically remote sovereign state of Cornwall.Whoa boy, I am in Wales, not New South Wales
s'alright Stephen, we ought to have an enlarger thread tbf.My obviously erroneous assumption (I did say I hadn't checked the specification) was that this enlarger was like my LPL enlarger, that although not a condenser enlarger requires different diffuser boxes for different negative sizes. Based on that, it seemed probable that a 35mm box wouldn't give even coverage with larger negatives. I simply assumed that all LPL enlargers were similar in operation regardless of size.
Sorry to have muddied the waters - clearly smaller format enlargers work differently.