Mos6502
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About ten or twelve years ago it seemed if you wanted an enlarger it was yours for the asking. Finding one, or two, or three, at any given moment on Craiglist for free, or $10-$20 was just the usual. Pros were moving to digital and this stuff takes up a lot of space and schools were clearing out their soon to be dead technology. Back when I moved in 2009 I think I got $15 for my enlarger. Didn't see the point in packing it up, plus I figured I'd buy a scanner and just scan film.
I gave up making wet prints, and instead shot slide film for several years. Then the selection of slide film dwindled down to almost nothing, so I got interested in black and white again. In the interim I chanced upon a basic Spiratone enlarger complete (but for lens) in its box, with a price too good to pass up. But it has sat in its box in my spare room for the past several years until recently. I went looking for an enlarger lens, and browsed listings for complete enlargers (you know, just in case I need another one) and I noticed that these things aren't so cheap, or so easy to find these days. Finding one locally was pretty much out of the question, and prices on ebay today present a big contrast with what I remember from a decade ago.
Have other people noticed this? Would you say there is a renewed interest in working with physical media? Or is this just the result of so many having been trashed a decade ago, and scarcity of new equipment?
I gave up making wet prints, and instead shot slide film for several years. Then the selection of slide film dwindled down to almost nothing, so I got interested in black and white again. In the interim I chanced upon a basic Spiratone enlarger complete (but for lens) in its box, with a price too good to pass up. But it has sat in its box in my spare room for the past several years until recently. I went looking for an enlarger lens, and browsed listings for complete enlargers (you know, just in case I need another one) and I noticed that these things aren't so cheap, or so easy to find these days. Finding one locally was pretty much out of the question, and prices on ebay today present a big contrast with what I remember from a decade ago.
Have other people noticed this? Would you say there is a renewed interest in working with physical media? Or is this just the result of so many having been trashed a decade ago, and scarcity of new equipment?
Pablito
coco frío
I have several very high end enlargers that I can't give away. Asking price is one thing, but it does not mean the price will be realized.
