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Monotype Enlarger

Enlarger Components

1890-1895

Butcher's Carbine Enlarger

Horizontal Enlarger

Daylight Enlarger 'British Made'. Tapering wooden box

Eastman Kodak Half-plate Enlarger

Vertical Enlarger by Kodak Ltd

circa 1925

Enlarger for Paper Negatives

Enlarger for Paper Negatives

Horizontal Enlarger for Negatives up to 1/2 plate.

Abbeydale Enlarger

1910-1915

Morris Enlarger

1895-1905

Leitz 'Focomat 1' Automatic Enlarger with Printing Board, c 1938

1933-1943

Gaumont Daylight Enlarger

Coin-In-Slot Enlarger by Photoweigh Ltd., c. 1960.

1960

De Vere 32 Professional Bench Enlarger

1968

Kodak Commercial Enlarger

The Holborn Folding Enlarger

Kodak Finisher Enlarger

EMI-logetronic Enlarger Model EP10

Minox Enlarger

Retina I (Type 117) Body

Durst Laborator 138 Enlarger

Kodak Retina Enlarger

Ensign Magnaprint Enlarger, c 1936

1931-1941

Portable Enlarger

1930-1939

Salex Enlarging Easel for Plates

Zenit UPA-5 portable enlarger manufactured by KMZ in the Soviet Union during the 1970s. The UPA-5 came broken down inside a briefcase. Assembly was simple as there were only seven pieces, eight if you include the base. There was a short rod that screwed into the main rod, the short rod locking into the tube in the outside of the case (right hand side of the lid in the photo) Pre-mounted to the rod was the light and lens carrier frame which had a pressure wheel with a knob to raise and lower the assembly for enlargements and a locking screw to fix the assembly for exposure. Onto the top of the lens assembly one pressure mounted the lower half of the light housing. You then put the bulb unit through the top of the light housing, screwed in the bulb, then twist-locked the top of the light housing to the bottom. After slotting in the negative holder and plugging in the light you were ready to go. Setting up took two minutes and dismantling even less. Certainly not the best enlarger that you could buy at the time but cheap and portable and very useful if you were travelling or didn’t have the space for a permanent darkroom. An ingenious and interesting piece of design.

Zenit Portable Enlarger

1970s

Vertical enlarger for up to postcard negatives;Kodak Anastigmat lens F:130mm. No 171430, fixed aperture. Auto focus; colume ends in G-clamp for fittinh to table. Electric illumination; diffuser. With negative carrier, set of masks, instructions.

Kodak Autofocus enlarger

1922

Daylight enlarger for VPK negatives to postcard size.

Vest Pocket Kodak Enlarging camera

Fixed daylight enlarger for 2 1/4 x 3 1/4" negatives. Holder for postcard sized paper, with orange mask. With instructions and Kodak actinometer.

No2 Brownie Postcard enlarging camera

1920

Horizontal enlarger for quarterplate negatives. Lens missing. Perken, son and rayment rapid rectilinear lens f/8-64. SCrew focusing. Double plano convex condensers, removable diffuser. Originally fitted with inverted fas jet. Thornton Pickard

Thornton-Pickard imperial horizontal enlarger

1930-1940

The 'Princess' enlarger. By Houghtons Ltd.

The Princess Enlarger

Collapsing camera for 616 rollfilm 2 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches. Short focal length lens fitted with opal diffuser and holder for 16mm film strip which makes enlargement from 16mm frame. Time exposure shutter. Eastman kodak Company. C.1938

Kodak 16mm enlarger

1933-1943

Recording camera for 35mm film in 200 exposure chargers 24 x 24mm. Fitted with a dallmeyer enlarging anastigmat lens F: 2 inches f/3.5-11 No.374093. Shutter 10/25/50/100/200/B/T.12v D.C. motor drive. Helical focusing down to approx 20cm - glass pressure plate and removable back plate for crictical focusing. Rotary exposure counter, modified with cable release with synchronising contacts. No.1218. D. Shackman and sons.

Shackman Auto Camera

Horizontal enlarger made by J.A. Furnivel, Manchester.

Horizontal enlarger made by J.A. Furnivel

Fixed enlarger for 4 x 5cm negatives, enlarged to 8.5 x 11.5cm. With fixed aperture lens. 240v 60w white photographic lamp with opal diffuser. Switched socket. Hinged paper holder. With a black crackle finish. Zeiss Ikon.

Zeiss-Ikon enlarger

Horizontal enlarger for 1/4 plates; front panel with mount for attaching No3 cartridge Kodak camera; double condenser; iron lamphouse with ES lamp socket and reflector (not original). Chimney missing.

Kodak Konecto enlarger

Kodak Oriel enlarger. No lens.

Kodak Oriel Enlarger

Kodak specialist photographic enlarger.

Kodak specialist photographic enlarger.

Model (scale 1:4 ) in case of a Williamson automatic photographic enlarger, by Williamson Manufacturing Co. Ltd., London, England, 1920-1928.

Model of automatic photographic enlarger, British 1939-1959

1920-1928

Eastman autofocus enlarger. Diffuser enlarger for up to half plate negatives. To negative carriers (not original), with masks. Focusing scale calibrated 1 1/2 - 4. Fitted with Eastman Projection anastigmat lens 7 1/2" f.4.5-32

Eastman autofocus enlarger

J. Lancaster and Sons, Birmingham. Mahogany and brass vertical enlarger for up to 6 ½ x 8 ½ plates. Cooke Aviar Series IIIB Copying lens F: 8 ½”, f/6-45, coated. No.394259. Screw focusing, sliding extension. Rack and pinion elevation of counterbalanced head. Provision for autofocus, linkage removed. Adjustable negative making. Fitted with coldlight illumination Model 744 by Photogrids Ltd., London.

Lancaster Vertical Enlarger

Kodak Colour Enlarger

Kodak Colour Enlarger.

Kodak Precision enlarger

Kodak Precision enlarger

De Vere 101 enlarger.

De Vere 101 Enlarger

Package number 11, De Vere 5 X 4 enlarger from De Vere Dichromat Mark 3 enlarger wall column. Part of Shirley Beljon "Time Capsule" collection.

Darkroom Enlarging and Printing Equipment

1972-1987

Exakt vertical enlarger. Manufactured by Andreas Veigel, Stuttgart. Vertical enlarger for 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 inch negatives; glassless carrier; Steinheil Cassar lens, F:10.5cm f/4.5 Serial No 295968. Helical lens mount and column calibrated 3-40 for rapid focusing. Electric lamp and condenser. Plate reads D.R.P./angemeld/Exakt/D.R.G.M./Andreas Veigel, Stuttgart-Cannstatt.

Exakt Vertical Enlarger

1940-1960

Horizontal enlarger. Wooden, with metal lamphouse fitted for electric light, opal bulb. 8 inch diameter Double Plano-Condenser lens. Rack and pinion focusing on front panel, rising front movement. Negative holder for up to 7 x 7 inch negatives. Fitted with an Aldis Anastigmat No 3 lens, F:6 1/2 inches, f/6-64, Serial No 10547 5984, in brass rack and pinion focusing mount (see 1990-5036/2274/1).

Horizontal Enlarger

The Abbeydale horizontal enlarger for 5 x 5 inch negatives. Objective lens missing 5 1/2 inch diameter, double plano-convex condenser lens, on removable panel 'rising front'. Rack and pinion focusing. Metal lamphouse with safelight window. ES lamp fitting (ceramic). By William Butcher and Sons, London. Overall (approx): 385 mm x 290 mm x 575 mm.

The Abbeydale horizontal enlarger for 5 x 5 inch negatives