You're right...... Spiratone!!!!! I've been moving furniture all afternoon/night and my brain is shot! I also have a bad cold. Testrite was the first "real" enlarger I had after my using my Dad's Federal Enlarger that had......Waterhouse F stops!!!!! On 11/20/2013 9:33 PM, Andrew Davidhazy
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was that Testrite or Spiratone? I made my own long focus lens out of a +2 close-up lens and cardboard tube ... probably just as sharp at theirs! ;) Andy On Nov 20, 2013, at 8:53 PM, Russ wrote:Yo.... So I am moving some furniture around and under my bed amongst some other odds and ends I find my old Copy Stand which I believe was made by... Ready for this.... "Testrite" OK let see a show of hands who remember their multi page ads in the back of Modern and Pop Photography back in the 60's and 70's. I still remember that they were always advertising a 400mm F6.3 lens at some ridiculously low price. Of course back in the 60's I was a young teen and didn't have any money even for that! Also I had no need of a lens of that focal length regardless of the dubious quality! -- Russ R.E. Baker Photography www.rebphoto.smugmug.com Feed a Cat... Starve a Fever..... -- Russ R.E. Baker Photography www.rebphoto.smugmug.com Feed a Cat... Starve a Fever..... |