molsondog
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Found this collection on Craigslist for $200.00.
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Is this a good deal?
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MartinP
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For where i live that would be way over priced, but it will depend on what else is available locally to you of course, as this sort of thing is not easily post-able.
oftheherd
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I seems a little on the high side, but not necessarily so, as the lenses may bring the value up, and all Durst enlargers bring good money. I would suggest you do some searches on ebay for the prices of sold items. Then decide if it is worth it to you.
Pickett Wilson
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It seems a fair price for the whole kit. Be sure both 35mm and 6x6 negative carriers are there, and there isn't any corrosion on the enlarger.
bmattock
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I've got a medium format Durst in my garage that I've been trying to give away to the first person to come take it, and there were no takers. Enlargers are worth bupkis.
maddoc
... likes film again.
I got a Durst M601 with condenser inset, colorhead CLS66, a Fujinon 90/4.0, a Nikon 50/4.0, negative carriers for both 135 and 120, a grain microscope and very decent timer last year for ~ $100 locally here in Sapporo.
Pickett Wilson
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Well, the OP could spend time looking around for bits and pieces of a darkroom he could maybe get for free...or, spend a couple of hundred bucks to get the whole setup now. $200 really isn't much, if only for connivence. Especially if you can get it locally.
bmattock
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Depends on one's abilities, I suppose. That's nearly a half-month's rent to me.
wgerrard
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What kind of timer and what kind of dryer? From what I've seen nosing around, new timers and new dryers can be cheap or they can be expensive.
Landshark
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It's overpriced for what's there. $100 would be on the high side.
Offer them $50 & see if they show any interest. It's just stuff sitting in the garage to them.
Offer them $50 & see if they show any interest. It's just stuff sitting in the garage to them.
Pickett Wilson
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If you aren't in a hurry, you can likely get everything for free, of course.
I spent two years trying to give away an entire, working, newspaper darkroom and couldn't find anyone within a 200 mile radius who would take it for free! Colleges, public schools, individuals, no one would take it away. We're talking three enlargers (high end stuff, including an Omega 45MCRX, many top quality lenses, timers, color analyzers, stainless sinks...well, a dream darkroom. With a remodel coming up, I finally had to pay a junk dealer to haul it all off. Called every photographer I knew and no one wanted it.
So, you can find good stuff free. But, still, the kit doesn't sound like too bad a price to me.
I spent two years trying to give away an entire, working, newspaper darkroom and couldn't find anyone within a 200 mile radius who would take it for free! Colleges, public schools, individuals, no one would take it away. We're talking three enlargers (high end stuff, including an Omega 45MCRX, many top quality lenses, timers, color analyzers, stainless sinks...well, a dream darkroom. With a remodel coming up, I finally had to pay a junk dealer to haul it all off. Called every photographer I knew and no one wanted it.
So, you can find good stuff free. But, still, the kit doesn't sound like too bad a price to me.
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