I have been giving away some stuff this week: the moderators of our local group put out a call to see more OFFERED listings. I obliged.
So I unloaded:
- a two-seat wagon my kids have outgrown
- a telescope
- an old SCSI scanner
- a sandbox
All spoken for or gone. Got a couple more things listed that are not meeting with any love, and a couple more to list when I get the particulars.
I also put out a call for old darkroom stuff and someone came across with a box of stuff.
- Three old enlargers, with lenses. Two of ’em are unrecognizable and I think can be scrapped.
- A bunch of developing trays, all dirty as can be, but plenty useable
- A grain focuser, something I would never have remembered needing
- Some tongs
- A safelight
- A couple of neat little old timers, one with a footswitch, for three-handed operations I can’t envision
- A large Patterson developing tank, with three convertible reels (35/120).
- Two easels
Quite a haul. It looks to have been in storage since 1995, if the newspaper it was all wrapped in is any guide. As noted, two of the enlargers are unrecognizable: one looks OK, and I have one already in the cupboard under the stairs that I need to drag out and look over. But it lacks a lens.
Useful to have gotten two 50mm lenses: one of them is good, I hope. The other? I have no clue. I need to take down what’s written on it and see what Google can turn up. It’s a small lens, no aperture settings, and no size info I recognize. Well, it says 5cm which == 50mm but it doesn’t look like the others, so I’m not sure if that’s what it means.
All in all, quite a trove. If those enlargers are duff, the bellows might be useful for other experiments, and it looks like one has a useful Fresnel lens. I’m sure uses can be found for that.