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A Simple Question

Posted on Posted in Getting Stuff, overnight notes, pipeline, the Lab

One simple question, a shopping one. Which enlarger should I buy?

What have other established photographers used?

Links [2024]

simple update

links: http://www.jollinger.com/photo/enlargers/

—-> http://store.khbphotografix.com/home.php

— >https://glennview.com/nav.htm

>>Who made the best/first/… maybe check the patent database;;

patents: darkroom enlargers

My first enlarger was a Kodak. It was equipped with Ektar lenses. My selection was easy because it was the enlarger mentioned in a dye-transfer guide. And, I found a used one at a local camera store (DC). Next, came a Durst, then and Omega D2. At places I worked, were Fotars, Agfas, Dursts, Omegas and an occasional Leitz. Each had something worthwhile, while each had something missing. In a professional custom lab, there is no reason to keep testing enlargers: those that work well become the central tool. If it doesn’t meet all needs, modify it. In my present darkroom, I have several Omega and Beseler enlargers. One Omega has a Durst carrier system added. With point light, several types of condensers, and diffusion lampheads; I can print using additive, subtractive, split filter — any which way I want.

There was a time that photopaper was slow,varied by batch. It didn’t print the same month to month– reprints were risky. Additional consideration in the best printing labs, the enlargers had to print the same color, the same contrast across a divided order. That is something the home brew doesn’t encounter. Home cooks never have to make the same thing 50 times a night. Professionals do.

Commercial chefs have many knives, can cook on many fires, are expected to produce peak performance order after order.

The light, the lens, the space are primary tools — choose those you will use. An enlarger is a holder, a jig for the light , lens, and film stage.

Deciding the type of LampHead affects the contrast range of the negatives you make:

A condenser is an optical lens that renders a divergent light beam from a point light source into a parallel or converging beam to illuminate an object

Happy 122424

Posted on Posted in art biz, overnight notes, Theory: figurative, Theory: narrative

children and childhood in the uncomfort zone beyond the comfort pick up your children and throw them at the world  — but do it with a camera 

Women re-revising their childhood; their adolescence; their children as memory props, children as merch

it’s all become just another book on the shelf 

122424
Stages
Music. Lyrics. Dance. Occasion
providers of the occasion are those receiving greatest reward.
We are not randomly inlueninfluenced. There is a shuffle of the influence/exposure.
Making pictures are based, prompted by triggers & response repetition
this things produce that slide show in your psyche, visual paths,

Much 21st century photography is an extended caption.
Limited paths
cards in a deck there is a limited number but an infinite shuffle 

A limited number but an unlimited shuffle 

The triggering more fix the Henry Home Smith and the glass sculpture trigger the same interactions shapes on the Earth are of the Earth shapes within a culture are of the culture 

/yellow pad overnight December 24 24

Photographs or just office supplies in the visual factory 
Paper clips in the art factory 
aura: divinity

stature of being beyond

calling something cinematic provides the heightened reverence of the commercial cathedral of movies 
calling a movie something that is entertainment for children and board workers calling at cinema turns it into the chapel of culture of high culture the no brow eyebrow to the pinky 
wearing a wife beater's becomes a member of the beefeaters 
b theaters?
covid & artworlds

by destroying the gallery and growing the studio

as the Gallery closed the studio opened 
as the art fair closed the bookstore opened 
now the collector returns and the studio becomes a banana stand