I wish I had experiences like that. When I wanted an enlarger, I just wrote a check for an Omega D2VXL.
The creative experiences that come out of having to improvise are a real asset in the long term. There's a story about how Elliott Erwitt would wash his film in the toilet, making a succession of flushes ... Bill Casselberry is great at improvising ... this list has many examples of such creative solutions. Kudos to all the improvisers! shel (always learning something here) Leon Altoff wrote: > I made my first enlarger using the lens off an old 35 mm guess and > shoot (just a distance scale for focusing). The light source was an > old microscope lamp and I made the film holder in the workshop. It > worked well for what it was, and I learned a lot about light in the > process. I should point out that I had to do this if I wanted an > enlarger, because we were poor but had lots of "stuff" laying around.
