[LargeFormat] The most advanced Durst 4x5 ever made
Les Newcomer
largeformat@f32.net
Wed May 21 22:34:19 2003
Yeah but central Israel isn't exactly geographically advantagous. I'm
not sure even Dagor77 goes there!
On Wednesday, May 21, 2003, at 06:17 PM, Charles Thorsten wrote:
> In case anyone is interested, I found on eBay the most
> advanced 4x5 color enlarger Durst (or probably anyone
> else) ever made. This was the last incarnation of the
> L1200 chassis they developed before turning their attention
> to the digital Lambda printers.
>
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/
> eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2930143907&category=29985
>
> I have nothing to do with the seller. It's just *extremely*
> rare to see one of these machines!!!! It's hard to even find
> information about them...Durst only sold them to major
> commercial color labs, mainly doing high volume production,
> so they weren't really advertised to the public and were only
> produced for a few years. It has an amazingly precise and
> consistant closed-loop lightsource, with motorized autofocus
> and auto-sizing linked to the exposure. I'm drooling. :-P
>
> Probably the ZBE Sentinal was the only other enlarger to
> match the Pictochrome's sophistication. These enlargers
> are incredible machines if you're lucky enough to find one.
> I have a Durst AC 1201 which was the forerunner of the
> Pictochrome. It's my baby. :)
>
> OK OK I need to stop surfing eBay and get back to work.
>
> -Charlie
> cthorsten@earthlink.net
>
>
>
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