At 10:27 AM 8/14/2002 -0400, you wrote: >> Hey Alan do you also make lookaround enlargers? > >Hi Greg, > >I am not sure what lookaround _enlargers_ are but there are a few people >missing a few screws (meself included) who have made what I (of course) call >strip enlargers ... and strip cameras! BTW, I would say that Alan is also >among this elite (of course) minority! And come to think of it - so are you >but as far as I know you only have a _few_ missing links and have not yet >built a strip camera, eh? > >Anyway, there have not been too many strip enlargers built in history. There is >a precision gadget made by Seitz and installed in a lab in Florida I believe. >But long before that the AMAteurs were at it. I built mine in the early 70's >and a good friend of mine who worked at Kodak built a real monster a while >later. Oh, Itek Corporation had built them for the military long ago also. >Maybe Chicago Aerial Industries and the Fairchild Corp and other military photo >equipment manufacturers did too. CAI became famous for the Sonne camera >(designed with - I think - based on Western Electric's photofinish camera idea - >and promoted by General Goddard) and this one produced strip film which I am >positive somebody at some time would want to have blown up ... oooops ... >enlarged. > >I have a little description of my feeble attempts at: >http://www.rit.edu/~andpph/text-strip-enlarger.html > >cheerio, >andy Andy, Indeed, my first correspndance from you back in the early 'eighties included the plans for your Rube Goldberg strip enlarger/paper processor. AZ Maker of Lookaround panoramic camera. http://www.panoramacamera.us or keyword.com lookaround
