[LargeFormat] Enlargers and the New Darkroom

[Jim]

Many years ago I used a Durst 606 and printed a lot of color. Normal 
tungsten enlarging bulb and CP filters in a drawer in the lamphouse. Worked 
great. A bit fiddley bit OK.

I now have two ZBE Starlite 55 color heads, one on a ZBE Sentinette 
enlarger and the other on a Beseler 45V-XL. Absolutely the best heads I 
have ever ever used. Awesome! And I had my first enlarger in 1951. A Federal.

Charlie, why are you selling it and what kind of enlarger do/did you have 
it on?

thanks,

Jim


At 02:50 PM 2/9/2002 -0800, Charles Thorsten wrote:

>----- Original Message -----
>From: "rstein" <rstein@bigpond.net.au>
>To: <largeformat@f32.net>
>Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 5:05 PM
>Subject: [LargeFormat] Enlargers and the New Darkroom
>
>
> >     Now the question - there always is one, you know. Is there anyone else
> > out there in LF-land who also prints colour neg or slide using tungsten
> > illumination and sheet filters? Is it consistent for you? Are there any
> > pitfalls in the technique that will crop up later?
>
>That's interesting...in all my printing days, I've never heard of
>someone printing color with tungsten light and corrective
>filtration.  The only drawback I can see is the more you correct
>the tungsten (e.g. to get a colder lightsource), your light intensity
>will suffer quite a lot, causing long exposure times.  Make sure
>you have a voltage stabilizer on your tungsten lightsource, and
>you've got adequate coverage for your 4x5 film.
>
>By the way, I've got a VERY nice ZBE Starlight 55 closed
>loop colorhead for sale if anyone's interested.  It has the
>most consistent even lightsource I've ever experienced for
>4x5's.
>
>-Charlie
>
>
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