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Less than 10 minutes to go on an Ebay auction for a LPL C7700 colour enlarger. Actually two of them.

Wonder if I'm bidding against any of you guys?
 
Awesome! Congratulations. Blessed be the day I can afford a Durst. I couldn't buy an enlarger that doesn't enlarge my 5x4 stuff :(
 
humm, I've been watching enlargers a lot lately.
It's difficult to get all the ducks in a row, right enlarger, right masks, right price, right postage or close collection.......remembering :thinking:
Thats a good enlarger, do you need a 50mm lens for 35mm film, might be able to use the 75, I dunno..
 
Well done.

You would normally expect a 50mm lens for 35mm and an 80mm for 6*6.
Should only effect magnification I suspect.
Anyway, enlarging lenses are cheap as chips on ebay.

Hope you enjoy many hours of (near) darkness. :)
 
Yeah, seen a few 50mm lenses going for anything from a tenner to 50 or 60 quid so I'll pick one somewhere in between and I think that will do. I'll get myself to the local photog shop and get some chemicals and we'll be away! Can't wait!
 
Good enlarger, Try to get a good enlarging lens, either a Schneider Componon S, Rodenstock Rodagon or Nikkor the f2.8s are the best of the 50mm and the f4s the best of the 80mm and the APO Rodagon probably the ultimate of either.

I had an LPL7542 5"x4" colour enlarger, and it was great, but by god it was a beast.
 
chivers67 said:
Are you going to do some colour printing or black and white mulitgrade work
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Definitely black and white. I do intend to get into doing some colour printing at some point but will be starting out with black and white.
 
welly said:
Definitely black and white. I do intend to get into doing some colour printing at some point but will be starting out with black and white.
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For starters, you need a condensor head for true B/W, for those true blacks.
Using a diffuser head you have to develop your film to the g bar time. Admitted diffuser prints cover up those irritating specks on the print The choice is yours.
 
oldfella said:
For starters, you need a condensor head for true B/W, for those true blacks.
Using a diffuser head you have to develop your film to the g bar time. Admitted diffuser prints cover up those irritating specks on the print The choice is yours.
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I was using the same (I'm pretty sure the same!) enlarger at college and got some great B&W results out of it. It's more about experimentation and learning than doing much more significant with it. But thanks for the advice anyway.

Oh, and "g bar time"?
 
I've got an LPL67 with a colour head and always had great results with 35mm and 6x6.

Looks like you've already got some knowledge from college but I'd start with 5x7 sheets until you get the real feel of what the enlarger does otherwise it starts getting real pricey on paper
 
welly said:
I was using the same (I'm pretty sure the same!) enlarger at college and got some great B&W results out of it. It's more about experimentation and learning than doing much more significant with it. But thanks for the advice anyway.

Oh, and "g bar time"?
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Actually it is written --
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It is the slight increase in developing time to increase contrast when using diffuser enlargers.
 
oldfella said:
Actually it is written --
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It is the slight increase in developing time to increase contrast when using diffuser enlargers.
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Ok, gotcha. We were experimenting with the magenta/cyan/yellow filters on the enlarger to get more contrasty enlargements and got some nice effects. There was actually a B+W enlarger going cheap from the same guy for next to nothing but I didn't think there was a difference between the two. Oh well! I'm sure this will suffice until I get good!
 
AFAIK

I think you'll only need yellow and magenta for mulitgrade papers Cyan will just increase the exposure
 
I personally don't know much about the LPL7700; but it was what my dad had and he was pretty serious about his photography. He swore by it so it must be a pretty good one!
Well done.:)
 
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