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Monotype Enlarger

Enlarger Components

1890-1895

Abbeydale Enlarger

1910-1915

Morris Enlarger

1895-1905
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

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

Horizontal enlarger made by J.A. Furnivel

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

Multi spectral additive enlarger

Multi spectral additive enlarger

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 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

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

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

Salex horizontal enlarger, professional model, c. 1920. Iron lamphouse with ES lamp fitting and rack and pinion focusing. Long extension, rack and pinion focusing. Sliding rising front. Negative carrier rotates by rack and pinion, built in adjustable masking strips. Rack and pinion swing on negative holder. Rack and pinion elevation of negative holder. Fitted with a Ross Xpres lens F: 7 1/4, f/4.5-32 No.80447. Overall (no lens): 390 mm x 340 mm x 690 mm.

Salex Horizontal Enlarger

Salex Horizontal enlarger. City Sale and Exchange, 81 Aldergate, London EC. For 1/2 plates; rotating carrier with sliding masks; rack rising and vertical wing on negative holder, rising front; TP Cooke Anastigmat lens F:5 3/4" f/4.5, No 81114; rack focusing on lens panel. Iron lamphouse, double condenser; ES lamp fitting; black cloth hood. Overall: 480 mm x 290 mm x 760 mm.

Salex Horizontal Enlarger

Butcher horizontal enlarger: The Coronet. Horizontal enlarger for whole plates. No lens. Sliding extending baseboard with locking screw. Lens standard moved for focusing by chain and sprocket. 8 inch diameter double plano convex condenser. ES electric lamp fitting. Iron lamp house position adjusted by lever. Black cloth hood and fociusing frame seperate. Negative carrier with adaptors for 1/2 plate and 9 x 12cm vertical adjustment by rack and pinion. W Butcher. Overall (approx): 540 mm x 330 mm x 630 mm.

Butcher Horizontal Enlarger 'The Coronet'

Kodak specialist photographic enlarger.

Kodak specialist photographic 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
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

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

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
Kodak Precision enlarger

Kodak Precision enlarger

De Vere 101 enlarger.

De Vere 101 Enlarger

Zeiss Ikon Miraphot enlarger. Vertical enlarger for 1/2 plate negatives; Novar Anastigmat lens F:13.5cm f/6.8, No 661010. Autofocus; counterbalance wire broken. Electric lamp; opal diffuser.

Zeiss Ikon Miraphot enlarger. Vertical enlarger for 1/2 plate negatives; Novar Anastigmat lens F:13.5cm f/6.8

1926-1945
Aldis-Ensign enlarger. Vertical enlarger for 3 1/4 x 2 1/4" negatives; Aldis-Plano anastigmat lens f/7.7.

Aldis-Ensign enlarger, c 1923

1920-1926
Kodak Colour Enlarger

Kodak Colour Enlarger.

Daylight Enlarger 'British Made'. Tapering wooden box, fixed focus daylight enlarger. For 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inch pictures with removable mask for 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 negatives. With sliding guillotine shutter, lens missing, holder for 6 1/2 x 8 1/2 inch paper.

Daylight Enlarger 'British Made'. Tapering wooden box

Enlarger for paper negatives

Enlarger for Paper Negatives

Enlarger for paper negatives

Enlarger for Paper Negatives

Vertical Enlarger by Kodak Ltd, c.1925. has a base board (separate).

Vertical Enlarger by Kodak Ltd

circa 1925
Horizontal enlarger for 1/1 plates, half plate reducer, no lens, rack focusing on front, rising front, screw adjustment of lamphouse, incandescent electric lamp fitting.

Horizontal Enlarger

Horizontal enlarger for quarterplates. Lens missing. Lens panel on long wooden extension box. Not original. Condenser lenses missing. Illuminant tray. No light source. Rack and pinion focusing. W. Butcher and Sons.

Butcher's Carbine Enlarger

Eastman Kodak half-plate enlarger.

Eastman Kodak Half-plate Enlarger

Vertical enlarger for 2 1/4 x 3 1/4" negatives. Novar Anastigmat lens F:10.5cm f/6.3 No 1022116. Autofocus. Lamp holder and diffuser missing.

Zeiss Ikon enlarger

Half plate horizontal enlarger by Thornton Pickard Ltd, Altrincham c.1895

enlarger

circa 1895
Salex enlarger. City Sale and Exchange, 81 Aldergate, London EC. For 1/2 plates, with reducer for 5x4 and 1/4 plate negatives. Rotating negative holder. Lens missing; rising movements on lens panel and negative holder; rack swing on negative holder (vertical) rack focusing; iron lamphouse (no light source) rack adjusted; double condensor.

Salex Enlarger

Enlarger, horizontal, Muirhead & Co Ltd, For half plates; Wray Supar lens F:5 1/2" f/4.5 No 65699. Bellows focusing extension, rack operated. Double condenser, in wooden casing, halves seperate for cleaning. Half plate holder, wit 5x4" reducer. Opal lamp. Provision for external switch. No 169598.

Muirhead horizontal enlarger

Two prismatic magnifying lenses in brass frame with spring slides for reflex camera hood.

ensign reflex magnifiers

SAnds & Hunter horizontal enlarger for quarterplates. Petzval type lens, rack and pinion focusing mount, iris diaphragm, uncalibrated C. Rack and pinion extension to bellows. 5 inch double condenser. Incadescent electric light fitting. Orange glass lens cap. Sands, Hunter and Co.

Sands and Hunter horizontal enlarger

Optimus horizontal enlarger for up to 1/4 plate negatives. Fitted with a Dallmeyer No.3 stigmatic lens series II No.63937, f/6-45 in Bausch and Lomb iris shutter 1/2/5/25/50/100/B/T. Sliding coarse focusing screw fine focusing. Two negative carriers for 1/4 plate and 2 1/4 x 3 1/4 inch negatives. Double plano-convex condensers. Iron lamphouse with tall chimney. Perkens and Son.

Optimus horizontal enlarger for up to 1/4 plate negatives

Salex enlarging easel for plates from 1/4 plate to 15 x 12 inches in size.

Salex Enlarging Easel for Plates

Vertical enlarger, manufactured by J. Lancaster & Son, Birmingham, 1927. Fitted with Wray 3/4" f 4.5 Super Lens No 62956

Vertical enlarger

1927
Amateur enlarger, home-made to plans published by Focal Press, with a group of printing accessories. Unknown maker, about 1940-1950.

Home-Made Amateur Vertical Photographic Enlarger

1949-1950