Durst made some great enlargers. The one you are thinking about was sold as the S45 in the US. The 138 was the same enlarger with 5x7 carriers and condensers. Their 10x10, usually advertised as 8x10, was a real monster. All of these were built, well..., well.
I just checked their webpage. The 1200 is the biggest they have listed. I hadn't thought of it but, satellite mapping had probably pretty much done away with 5x5 to 10x10 aerial photography. That is what most of those big enlargers were used for. Back in the sixties Durst made an M35 enlarger that I think was the best 35mm enlarger ever made. Ciao, Graywolf http://pages.prodigy.net/graywolfphoto ---------------------------------------------------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: Shel Belinkoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Paul Stenquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2002 1:51 AM Subject: Durst Laborator - My Favorite Enlarger > http://home.earthlink.net/~belinkoff/temp/5x7laborator.html > > They used to have, and maybe still do, a similar model in 4x5 format. > The adjustable table takes a vacuum attachment which holds the paper > perfectly flat and allows borderless, easel-less printing. The table > raises and lowers electrically, and tilts in all planes. The enlarger > head also tilts. > > I wanted this enlarger very badly when i first started photography, but > at the time it was over $1200.00 ... it was made of unobtainium. Now > there's no place to put it, and it's still made of unobtainium. > > > -- > Shel Belinkoff > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://home.earthlink.net/~belinkoff/ > http://home.earthlink.net/~belinkoff/darkroom-rentals/index.html > - > This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, > go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to > visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
