what is the least expencive but, best quality color enlarger?

[gabrielle_d._goodman]

I am looking for the best quality yet least expencive color enlarger head? Also a color print processor? Not the manual type that you are required to change the chemistry everytime you process a print! The good kind that they use in photo labs. Like a Day lab type thing at a price of under $200.00!! I know your thinking I'm in a dream world but there might be someone/anyone out there that might have one they want to get rid of because they nolonger have a use for it!!!!

oh yeah one more thing does anyone have a price list for how much old antique Kodak, Argus, and other camera are worth??

 

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THANX,

Gabrielle D. Goodman

anyone who want to see my older photographs I have a web page at:

 

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http://members.tripod.com/~ElleG/index.htm

[elise_gordillo]

As far as I know, you don't have to change the chemistry to process a

color print. I do my own Cibachrome prints with an old B-22 enlarger

and an Ilford color filter pack (costs about $25). A color head is a

"nice-to-have" but not required.

[peter_olsson3]

Hi Gabrielle,

 

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for color negative printing I have only used room-temperature RA4-

chemicals with Kodak Portra paper. I have been quite pleased with

the results, but less pleased with my inability to repeat the results

from one darkroom session to another. The same filtering never seems

to work twice, it always requires test-strips for a color-beginner

like me. I pour the liquid in ordinary trays and have a darkroom

lamp that has a spectral sensitivity that doesn't affect the color-

paper (a DUKA). The trays costs very little of course, the lamp is

more expensive but less than your $200. The chemicals are not as

cheap as the version that should be heated but I'm a hobbyist so all

in all this is the cheapest solution. I use a special spray to get the

oxygen out of the chemical cans once I have taken the amount needed

in the trays, this way the chemicals live much longer. The chemicals

diluted with water and used in the trays have to be wasted after each

session anyway. Beware, use only a new tray for the developer, one

that never has been in contact with black & white chemicals. The two

other trays can (it seems) be your ordinary b&w trays. One tray,

now that is cheap, isn't it!