Tomorrow I move a process camera that I bought for $200 to my lab.
It is coming out of a corporation headquarters where they no longer
use process cameras for making advertising plates. Everything has
gone digital.
I saw this differently. I shoot 8 x 10 and 11 x 14 formats. make p/p
prints. No enlargers I have access to can enlarge these negatives.
I intend to use the 20 x 24 vacuum frame film holder for making enlarged
negatives of my p/p prints. Two standards are in the unit, one with
vacuum frame for flat art and an illuminated board for photographing
negatives or transparencies. It has a nikon f9 420/480 lens which is
common in this type of camera. It has pulse Xenon lights, 4000 watts.
My question is this. With everyone going digital am I moving in the
wrong direction? At this price how can I go wrong. Apparently, there
are thousands of these units sitting in graphic arts supply houses, and
in corporate facilities that will let you have them if you will
cart them away!
Seems like it could be a great asset for educational facilities that
could pick one of these for up to nothing. the limits of the film back
for my unit is 20 x 24. There are some units even larger. My printing
unit is a Martin Yale platemaker, 1200 watt, with a vacuum frame
limit of 17 x 23.
Anybody use one of these type units to make enlarged negatives?
Gary Auerbach
http://www.azstarnet.com/platinum