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8X10 DURST ENLARGERS, accessories

8X10 DURST ENLARGER with COLOR HEAD

Durst 184 chassis, Durst GRAHALON pin registered carrier frame and Durst GRANE 205 pin registered carrier with 2 sheets of plain glass, lensboard, manual crank head and table, 25X33" vacuum baseboard, lens stage tilt, rotating head (for perspective control or horizontal projection), CLS 300 Dichroic colorhead--as listed below, locking wheels for tracking to and from wall, bulbs, reflective coating worn off of Dichroic reflectors, bellows have pinholes but are servicable, illuminated dials, automatic temperature-controlled blower controls, also with an external exhaust fan that assists and will extend the life of the built-in blowers. Ex+, $6000. The enlarger head is about 2' below maximum height in the photo in order to keep it compact and get it in the photo.

8X10 DURST ENLARGER with ILFORD MULTIGRADE HEAD

Durst 184 chassis, Ilford 500HLE Multigrade 1200W head with 220V power supply, controller, foot switch, exposure probe, bellows have pinholes but are servicable, Durst GRAHALON pin registered carrier frame and Durst GRANE 205 pin registered carrier with 2 sheets of plain glass, manual crank head and table, 25X33" vacuum baseboard, lens stage tilt, rotating head (for perspective control or horizontal projection), locking wheels for tracking to and from wall, Ex+, $8000. This enlarger is illustrated above with a color head on it. The head is listed in more detail and illustrated below. Consider an upgrade to the Durst custom altered GRAHALON and GRANE glassless stretching type negative carrier listed below for $1000.

8X10 DURST COLOR HEAD

CLS 300 Dichroic colorhead, 2000W, 220/240V, 10X10" mixing box, stabilized power supply, all original Durst filters, reflective coating on Dichroic reflectors typically deteriorated, infrared filters keep heat out of mixing box and away from your negative, auxiliary filter drawer, thermostatically controlled built-in blowers keep air flowing over lamps + the hoses and external blower as illustrated in above photo of the head mounted on the Durst chassis, corner of mixing box diffusion outlet sheet is broken outside of image area--see photo below, Ex+, $3200

Durst Color Laborator 184 LACOBOX 138 5X7 mixing box for CLS 300 or CLS301, $600

Durst V184 handcrank without the end gear. If you have a motorized V184 and are worried about it failing, here is your insurance policy. The same gear is used on the motorized version. Move the gear from the motorized drive shaft to this handcrank and you are back in business. $150

ILFORD VARIABLE CONTRAST HEAD

Ilford 500HLE Multigrade 1200W head with 220V power supply, controller, foot switch, exposure probe, with Ilford adapter to fit the Durst 8X10 chassis, with set of nuts and bolts Illustrated below. If you are printing strictly B&W, this is the head to have. If you are printing color and B&W, then you will want this head for your B&W work. This head will outperform any color head for B&W work with multigrade paper. This head allows you to change contrast w/o changing exposure. This head will give you a longer contrast range and a higher maximum contrast than any color head. The head has an automatic thermostatically controlled forced air cooling system. It uses readily available ELH 300W projection bulbs with reflectors. When you change bulbs, you change reflectors. The illumination of both soft and hard light is even. This head is extremely RARE. Ex+, $4000.

The Ilford 500HLE Multigrade head adapter is supposed to come with nuts that allow you to use your Durst head-hold-on bolts to attach the adapter to the chassis. The used adapter I ordered did not come with those nuts, so I had to make a set. The Durst head-hold-on bolts are short and would have required nuts that were twice as long. I opted to make shorter nuts and replace the bolts with longer bolts. The set of 4 custom nuts + 4 bolts is $100 postpaid. Those nuts have now been black anodized. Anodizing leaves a hardened surface that is resistant to corrosion and wear. This is another example of the machine work that I do for my customers.

SUPER BRIGHT MURAL PROJECTION HEAD

5X7/8X10 1500W DURST MURAL PROJECTION LIGHT SOURCE: Macbeth Pulsed Xenon super bright Light Source, power supply with built-in timer, lamp in diffusion housing designed to be mounted in your 5X7/8X10 Durst condenser head in place of ordinary bulb socket (maintaining XYZ adjustment), blower and hose. This is the brightest light source ever made for the Durst. This comes with a used bulb and a new bulb. New bulbs are still available and cost $85. A customer who uses such a unit daily says bulbs last about 5 years. PS is large and heavy and will probably have to be trucked. Price includes S&H to anywhere in the lower 48 US. Ex, $1800

8X10 DURST ENLARGER ACCESSORIES

DURST LARANEG NEGATIVE CARRIER INSERT

Durst LAGRAFI 184 double glass pin registered carrier insert designed for use with the Durst LARANEG negative carrier and 18X24cm film. Of course, it will also work with smaller films, especially 5X7 and 4X5 films. This register insert has LORVALO and MIVALO registration pins built-in, for older and newer Durst registration systems. The LAGRAFI 184 is 269mm square outside dimensions with beveled edges. It will serve as a pin registered carrier for any enlarger with a stable carrier to accept this insert. This item is unused. The glass is clear, not anti-Newtonring, not coated, with ground and polished edges and is unscratched. $400

8X10 DURST PIN REGISTERED NEGATIVE CARRIERS

Durst GRAHALON pin registered carrier frame and Durst GRANE 205 pin registered carrier for Durst 8X10 enlargers, no pin bar included (but then you never get the right pin bar included anyway unless you buy it new), glass not included, Ex+, $1000 with enlarger or $1200 if purchased separately, 2 available

CUSTOM GLASSLESS STRETCHING TYPE NEGATIVE CARRIERS FOR DURST

Negative carriers can make or break an enlarger. Few negative carriers are well designed. Cheap glassless negative carriers like Omega and Beseler allow the film to buckle under heat, crop too much of the image and reflect light off the inside edges of the carrier opening making even more of the perimeter of the image unuseable. Expensive glassless negative carriers like some Durst carriers have beveled interior edges, but still crop into the image and allow buckling. Glass carriers prevent the film from buckling, but still oftentimes cut off some of the image. Of course, with glass carriers you have 4 extra surfaces to keep clean and may encounter Newtonrings. I have developed a glassless stretching type negative carrier that holds the film taught without glass and yet still allows printing of the full image--even the full negative. I have built 2 such carriers for use with an 8X10 Durst. I can build carriers for other enlargers and other formats. I may be able to build an insert to fit inside your carrier. I should be able to build a carrier to fit most sheet film enlargers. The design will not work with rollfilm. The cost will vary with the effort required. The 8X10 Durst carriers are priced at $500 and $2000. Here are the listings for the 8X10 Durst carriers:

CUSTOM GLASSLESS STRETCHING TYPE NEGATIVE CARRIER FOR 8X10 DURST, film is held taught without glass, allows printing of entire negative, requires use of Condit 8X10 diagonal punch, or some other small hole punch to punch holes in corners of negative as the negative is held in the carrier with small springs that must go through small holes in the negative corners, made of oak with velvet bearing strips around the perimeter of the top and bottom to protect your enlarger negative stage, negative may be oriented vertically or horizontally, carrier may be inverted, with handle, may be made for other formats and other enlargers as well, NEW, a GLENNVIEW product, $500 with an 8X10 diagonal film punch.

CUSTOM GLASSLESS STRETCHING TYPE NEGATIVE CARRIER FOR 8X10 DURST, made from DURST GRANE 205 PIN REGISTERED CARRIER and DURST GRAHALON PIN REGISTERED CARRIER FRAME, film is held taught without glass, allows printing of entire negative, with 8X10 DIAGONAL PUNCH, negative is held in the carrier with small springs that must go through small holes in the negative corners, the springs are on adjustable mounts for ease of loading, negative may be oriented horizontally only, a custom GLENNVIEW product, $2000 with an 8X10 diagonal punch. Here is an image that was printed with the carrier. Image made with 90mm Hypergon.

CARWEN NEGATIVE CARRIERS for 8X10 DURST