Durst Laborator

Hi,

I have recently purchased a durst laborator 1200 for a very reasonable
price. It came with the works. I am very exited. I checked the alignment
with the verselab laser aligner tool and it was perfect side to side and
needed adjustment for vertically. I have mostly figured out all the knobs
and other bits but also would like to make sure I do not miss anything there
is to know about this enlarger. This goes for alignment too.

I onder if anyone could point me a link where I can get info regarding the
issues I mentioned or where I can find an on-line manual.

Regards.

Alparslan wrote:
Hi,

I have recently purchased a durst laborator 1200 for a very reasonable
price. It came with the works. I am very exited. I checked the alignment
with the verselab laser aligner tool and it was perfect side to side and
needed adjustment for vertically. I have mostly figured out all the knobs
and other bits but also would like to make sure I do not miss anything there
is to know about this enlarger. This goes for alignment too.

I onder if anyone could point me a link where I can get info regarding the
issues I mentioned or where I can find an on-line manual.


Durst will likely mail you one for free. They sent me one for a 1000 and
that hasn't been made for at least 25 years.

Nick

Nick Zentena wrote in message ...

Durst will likely mail you one for free. They sent me one for a 1000 and
that hasn't been made for at least 25 years.

When I hauled my L1000 home, it took about five minutes
to figure out what the knobs did. What do you need a
manual for?

This *was* my first "real" enlarger, by the way. It
came with a CLS450 dichroic head, the digital timer,
negative carriers and mixing boxes for 35mm, 6x6 and
4x5, and lenses to match. I never did find a good way
to do 6x7 with it, but got a good deal on a Saunders/LPL
670DXL, also with all the trimmings.

C'mon, folks, hurry! Go digital! Digital is wonderful.
Really. Once you go digital you'll never look back.
Honest. Just let me know when you do, so I can buy
your darkroom stuff really cheap. :-)

Laura Halliday VE7LDH "Que les nuages soient notre
Grid: CN89mg pied a terre..."
ICBM: 49 16.05 N 122 56.92 W - Hospital/Shafte

Nick Zentena wrote in message ...

Durst will likely mail you one for free. They sent me one for a 1000 and
that hasn't been made for at least 25 years.

When I hauled my L1000 home, it took about five minutes
to figure out what the knobs did. What do you need a
manual for?

This *was* my first "real" enlarger, by the way. It
came with a CLS450 dichroic head, the digital timer,
negative carriers and mixing boxes for 35mm, 6x6 and
4x5, and lenses to match. I never did find a good way
to do 6x7 with it, but got a good deal on a Saunders/LPL
670DXL, also with all the trimmings.

C'mon, folks, hurry! Go digital! Digital is wonderful.
Really. Once you go digital you'll never look back.
Honest. Just let me know when you do, so I can buy
your darkroom stuff really cheap. :-)

Laura Halliday VE7LDH "Que les nuages soient notre
Grid: CN89mg pied a terre..."
ICBM: 49 16.05 N 122 56.92 W - Hospital/Shafte

Laura Halliday wrote:


When I hauled my L1000 home, it took about five minutes
to figure out what the knobs did. What do you need a
manual for?

Even with the manual I still don't know the proper name for the type of
negative carrier it uses. Or for that matter the lenboards. If it hadn't
been for some posting in the google archives of this group I'd never been
able to figure out which recessed board it needed. That's with the manual-)


This *was* my first "real" enlarger, by the way. It
came with a CLS450 dichroic head, the digital timer,
negative carriers and mixing boxes for 35mm, 6x6 and
4x5, and lenses to match. I never did find a good way
to do 6x7 with it, but got a good deal on a Saunders/LPL
670DXL, also with all the trimmings.

I've got the 401 Mark II head. 35mm and 6x7 carriers. All using the 4x5
light box.



Nick

Laura Halliday wrote:

negative carriers and mixing boxes for 35mm, 6x6 and
4x5, and lenses to match. I never did find a good way
to do 6x7 with it, but got a good deal on a Saunders/LPL


BTW I made a carrier for 4x5 out of black matt board. It works. 6x7 with
the smaller openning should be even easier.

Nick

On 16 May 2004 20:48:03 -0700, (Laura Halliday)
wrote:
L, also with all the trimmings.

C'mon, folks, hurry! Go digital! Digital is wonderful.
Really. Once you go digital you'll never look back.
Honest. Just let me know when you do, so I can buy
your darkroom stuff really cheap. :-)

Uhh.... Please go to the rear of the line. I's a long one, btw. :-)


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Alparslan wrote:
Hi,

I have recently purchased a durst laborator 1200
.....

I onder if anyone could point me a link where I can get info regarding the
issues I mentioned or where I can find an on-line manual.



The US distributer is Jobo. They have some information on their website. Their
page about the L1200 lists the accessories that are currently available:
http://www.jobo-usa.com/products/durst_l1200.htm, including the somewhat
peculiar names that Durst uses.

They also have a FAQ at http://www.jobo-usa.com/faq/faqfrontpage.htm

There isn't much in the manual that is both non-obvious and not in the webpages
I listed.

--Michael

"Laura Halliday" wrote in message
om...
Nick Zentena wrote in message
...

Durst will likely mail you one for free. They sent me one for a 1000
and
that hasn't been made for at least 25 years.

When I hauled my L1000 home, it took about five minutes
to figure out what the knobs did. What do you need a
manual for?

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I would like to know by how much one density filter unit will change the
exposure time when everything else is constant.

Durst is unique, their filter units are supposed to be equivalent to
logarithmic units. In other words 30M+30Y+30C= ND 0.30. In practice I
think you'll find that each paper has different speeds for different
emulsion layers and that emulsion layers are not sensitive to one color of
light (Bertram Miller calls this arasters (sp?)) so in practice a change of
say 30M will not mean a one f-stop change. However, if you add 30 to all
three filters you will have approximately a one f-stop change in exposure.

Much easier to buy a good analyzer and learn to print from what is sometimes
known as a calibrated contact sheet.

--
darkroommike

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"Alparslan" wrote in message
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"Laura Halliday" wrote in message
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Nick Zentena wrote in message
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Durst will likely mail you one for free. They sent me one for a 1000
and
that hasn't been made for at least 25 years.

When I hauled my L1000 home, it took about five minutes
to figure out what the knobs did. What do you need a
manual for?

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I would like to know by how much one density filter unit will change the
exposure time when everything else is constant.