a dream of reproduce minox riga enlarger

<p>I am very interested in riga enlarger,it is so cute,but it is hard to get one outfit in current market.I eve

r built one 20cm minox enlarger with wood, just as riga enlarger, and also print some 6.5x9cm photos,but I am not satisfi

ed with it.I have a dream of rebuilding 100 sets of riga enlarger with bakelite,the same as riga enlarger 1:1.the c

osts is very expensive,because first, take the riga enlarger to blueprint,then make several bakelite&nbs

p;moulds,and make many metal parts,such as negative carier,enlarging mask...and also order the conden

se lens from factory,and the most important thing is that must disassemble one minox camer

a to get the lens as the enlarging

lens...<br>

all of above will make the costs high...perhaps one outfit will sell as $1000,but how many&nbs

p;guys could buy a copy riga enlarger at this price? so ,it were just one dream of min

e for ever...<

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<p>At that price, not me! :-)<br>

I haven't yet tried your ULC-3 developer yet, but I will.<br>

If you are looking for ideas you might consider the Kiev 30M as a parts supplier. The film gate and lens, which focuses, are a single block and I can see how it might be incorporated into a Minox enlarger, It won't be a Riga copy, of course but even the lens might be useful for such a project?<br>

There is an enlarger for the Minolta 16 available second hand, and maybe you could get by with that?<br>

Just ideas.<br>

Murray</p>

<p>Hi Murray,<br>

thank you for the advice. my first mini camera is kiev30 about 10 years ago, I ever take many photo with it,<br>

afterward,I falled in love with minox 8x11,bought many minox cameras,and dark room equipments,I own all types of the minox enlargers:riga,model I,II,III.but still more like riga enlarger,want to have more,<br>

actually,I just wanna have several micro mini enlargers,I ever have aother dream that all of the photo equip，including camera,enlarger,developing tank,etc,can be putted in a small messtin,hoho<br>

perhaps one day, I would show a small minox enlarger(about 20cm)which I build.<br>

Jack</p>

<p>I think it would be very interesting to see it reproduced, The only time I ever saw a Riga Enlarger was at the Minox factory in Wetzlar. I would like to pick one up.<br>

I would like to see the enlarger that you built if you could.</p>

<p>I wish you luck in building one.</p>

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<p>They are very cute, but only $300. So spending $1000 to build a copy is not on.<br>

For $150 you can get a late b/w enlarger from 1970s. Much better, better lens.</p>

<p>http://www.submin.com/8x11/collection/minox/accessories/enlarger_riga.htm</p>

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Hi Gerald，<br>

thanks for your info,I has own several minox model riga, I,II,III enlarger,but still wish to own more riga enlargers, perhaps somebody has the same desire as mine. if rebuild, it will satisfy all the fans's wants.<br>

$300 is not a normal price for riga enlarger, the owner just met a lucky chance，this price $300 only appeared one time on ebay history.usually the price is from $1000-$2500 for a outfit in the past years on ebay,the problem is that you can't buy one though you could pay more money.it is so rare,I didn't see one on market ,especially latest years.I ever met one about 2007 on ebay, the price is $2000 for"buy it now",only one day later,it was sold.</p>

<p>Westlicht 2002/11/15 1438EUR (box), 2004/05/29 1594EUR<br>

Ebay <br /> 03/07/22 936.06USD <br /> 03/04/17 507EUR <br /> 03/10/23 2247.22USD complete boxed<br /> *05/03/03 295USD complete boxed<br /> 06/10/23 1799USD (instructions)<br /> 06/11/20 921GBP (box, instructions)<br /> 07/10/01 1500USD (instructions)<br>

This is not a comprehensive list. I haven't tracked the prices much for the last 4 years.<br>

Yes $295 was the best I have seen but no one else was bidding. The asking prices for many cameras is OTT and they don't sell. I have seen the same people list particular models for 8 years and at the same OTT price but they continue to do so.<br>

Riga enlargers and print boxes and developing tanks are usually with several other items making it harder to know what really each items is worth out of the set.<br>

As for sold - I had an Aviator with a buy it now. It was bid on, as he bid on thousands of other items and didn't pay for any - and like all of them I had to relist. As the reserve is a high fee I couldn't get that claimed back.<br>

Gerald</p>

Just did a quick search of eBay for a Riga enlarger. The buy it now was

2,500$. Insane what do you think?