Re: Saltzman enlarger has arrived

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> "Fred Leif" <fsleif@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>I remember seeing an 8x10 Saltzman in Cole Weston's
>>darkroom during a workshop.  It was mounted on a concrete
>>pillar that came up from a foundation through the
>>basement. There's a ****trait of Cole in his book 'Fifty
>>Years'  showing him leaning up against it (he calls it his
>>'one ton Saltzman).  I suppose Kim has it now.
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> Cool, Fred.  Did you or anyone get a chance to use it?
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> It was popular to those who could afford one and deal with
> installation. Here it is, same model:
> http://www.sciencetech.technomuses.ca/english/collection/karsh6.cfm
> and they made a larger, dual column one, too. (For scale,
> remember it is is ~12' tall.)
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    This is the smaller 8x10, note the hand wheels on the
front. There was also a larger version with double posts for
the bellows and another with twin sup****t columns for the
head. The latter was mostly made for aerial mapping from
10x10 negatives.
    The head moves back and forth on the trianglar tubular
sup****t. The illusterated enlarger does not appear to have
the lens, shutter, or diaphragm control. Not all Saltzman's
had the latter.
    The pictured enlarger appears to have the original 
Cooper-Hewitt type mercury arc lamp. This was one of three 
lamhouses available from Saltzman. There were after market 
color heads available from other sources later.
    Usually, the tubes of the head sup****t were covered with
foam rubber cu****ons to prevent bumping your head on them.
One can find foam plastic pipe insulation to take the place
of the originals.
    At one time there was a fellow who specialized in
maintaining Saltzman stuff but I think he is long dead now.
I don't think anyone else does that and I don't know if
there is a cashe of parts around. I suspect a good machinist
could make nearly any of the smaller parts.
    Saltzman also made a very heavy easel with two direction
tilting for perspective correction. This also had lead
screws and handwheels for operation. I believe it fitted the
heavier duty version of the enlarger but may have also
fitted the one illustrated on the site linked above.


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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles, CA, USA
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