[LargeFormat] Enlargers and the New Darkroom
Clive Warren
largeformat@f32.net
Tue Feb 12 17:31:14 2002
At 1:35 pm -0800 12/2/02, Charles Thorsten wrote:
> > 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?
>
>I had it on an Omega D5 chassis. Here's the thing. I have
>several other enlargers in my darkroom and I need to settle
>on one system for color management. Buying ZBE heads
>for all of them would be prohibitively expensive. I've set up
>an excellent system with Zyco digital translators, which read
>color and density at the easel with a probe. It works very
>effectively with regular dichroic heads. So the ZBE head is
>sitting in a box, hardly used. I'm still toying with whether or
>not to sell it.
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Hello Charlie,
What sort of device are the Zyco digital translators? Is there a web
page for them?
Cheers,
Clive