Vickko
Veteran
Why would any sane person have TWO Focomat IIc's?
Vick
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Why would any sane person have TWO Focomat IIc's?
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DNG
Film Friendly
are you selling one of them? 🙄
Vickko
Veteran
I'd like to, if you can deal with the shipping.
asaiah
Newbie
Where are you in Canada? You might be driving distance for someone.
t.s.k.
Hooked on philm
I know someone who also has two IIc's and two Ic's, and yes, he's borderline sane. Sorry, but he's not selling...yet.
Vickko
Veteran
I am in Ottawa. I have put a "want to trade" ad up in the classifieds, if you want to bring a truck to take one.
Vick
Vick
jpberger
Established
If you are printing colour having two enlargers going at once is a huge time saver.
Roger Hicks
Veteran
Colour + B+W
Combination printing
Pre-flashing
Using two formats...
...for a start. We have two Magnifaxes side by side and if we could afford it we'd probably have two Focomats.
Cheers,
R.
Combination printing
Pre-flashing
Using two formats...
...for a start. We have two Magnifaxes side by side and if we could afford it we'd probably have two Focomats.
Cheers,
R.
Ronald M
Veteran
Spare parts.
work on two negs at once and you can save half the process/evaluation time.
I have two 1C `s, a V35, a Valoy, Omega D2, D6 Chromega, Phillips PCS 130, smaller Phillips, a D3 with the gel color wheels that I replaced with triangles of CP filters stacked.
The D3 and Valoy are in storage. The rest are up ready to go.
I am sane, just excentric and can`t spell too well.
work on two negs at once and you can save half the process/evaluation time.
I have two 1C `s, a V35, a Valoy, Omega D2, D6 Chromega, Phillips PCS 130, smaller Phillips, a D3 with the gel color wheels that I replaced with triangles of CP filters stacked.
The D3 and Valoy are in storage. The rest are up ready to go.
I am sane, just excentric and can`t spell too well.
Freakscene
Obscure member
I have two Durst Laborator 1200s, for all the reasons Roger mentions.
Marty
Marty
Comrade Conrad
Member
I had two Focomat IIc's side-by-side when I lived in California. One was set up with the standard head. The other had an Ilford 500 head with the RH Designs Analyser 500. That was a nice system! I did OK with them until one night I dreamed they had clown faces on the heads and were going up and down on their own. So I can't speak for my own sanity. But if I hadn't had to move cross-country, I'd probably still have both.
Edward C. Zimmermann
Nerd
I have a Durst 900 and a Focomat Ic side-by-side---- the other Ic is as a backup and the IIc I don't use--- as well as a MINOX enlarger on a shelf ready-to-use within a minute...
My Ic is typically used with an opal bulb. The 900 gets anything from point-source to opal to colour heads to Ilford 500 to cold light... Its a luxury but its also quite functional as neither can replace the other in operation.. Before the digi-tsunami hit and washed photo archives, studios and small labs into the sea and all the darkroom gear into the garbage dumps this would have been prohibitive but these days the limiting factor is not the cost to acquire but the space and upkeep. Madness..?? the question is whose..? Those who disposed of the stuff or those that rescued the bits and put them to function?
jbrianfoto
Established
Enlarger hoarding - it's a real problem in America. Discovery channel is doing a 12 part series on it this fall. Shameful, just shameful.
Finder
Veteran
I have two enlargers side by side in my darkroom. They say photo chemistry causes drain bamage, but so far no evidensitometry of that.
sevo
Fokutorendaburando
My main enlargers are two Laborator 1200's, one bought new, the other picked up used (but still in film days and not for cheap), to switch between condenser and CLS head without disassembling that brute every time...
Within the past decade a few other large format enlargers have ended up with me when their original owners offered them for free, to be scrapped, but these are in storage or at any rate not set up for immediate use.
Within the past decade a few other large format enlargers have ended up with me when their original owners offered them for free, to be scrapped, but these are in storage or at any rate not set up for immediate use.
Finder
Veteran
But you are a photographer. I don't get the connection to sanity. Some would say having one enlarger, regardless of make and model, is crazy.
Vickko
Veteran
Wow. As of Wednesday, I'll be back down to one enlarger. Now you all have me thinking that I should keep the second one. Hmmm.
No.
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Vick
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Vick
Florian1234
it's just hide and seek
Oh, I wish I had the space in my new shared-flat home after moving for a job. Left my enlarger at my parents stored away. 🙁 (oh and I wish my printing skills would be better)
Edward C. Zimmermann
Nerd
The beauty of the modern Durst design is the ease of changing things. To remove the CLS head its unscrew the two screws and lift. Install the Ilford 500.. The same, leaving the same lightbox. Change lightbox.. Just flip the head back (the plate has a hinge). Insert a condensor? Use the shorter light box and insert from front.. Use cold light.. Remove light box and insert cold light (its the size and form of a condenser). Opal.. Insert the mirror... and the correct condenser.. Point-source? Remove the Opal and insert halogen, plug into the Variopoint and adjust--- point source always needs some fiddling and adjustments.
That's more or less how I ended up a historical Focomat. A friend purchased it from an institute here in Munich but only wanted the masking frame... and well.. I could not see it go into a landfill.. [Quite rare, very special and historically more significant than most WW-II era cameras]
sepiareverb
genius and moron
Personally I don't know why anyone would want even one Focomat.