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Photo Forum / Film Photography / Darkroom / February 2007LPL vs Saunders Easel
can anyone please help me compare the LPL (Japan made) and Saunders Easel? it seems the LPL easel is so much more expensive than LPL's. i now use a Kaiser 11x14 easel am so unsatisify with it. it can not produce perpendicular boarders on the paper, the two adjustable blades are badly designed :( ps. do you folks get any tips ( thoughts ) about printing w/o a easel? thanks in advance. - woody > ps. do you folks get any tips ( thoughts ) about printing w/o a easel? For RC paper (because it doesn't curl much) I have a sheet of orange bristol board in a 16x20 easel with the outlines of the paper sizes I use most often in black magic marker. This works well for borderless prints. Peter.  Signaturepirwin@ktb.net > > ps. do you folks get any tips ( thoughts ) about printing w/o a easel? > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > -- > pir...@ktb.net Peter, i am not well understand what you said. what is you mentioned 'bristol board' and what's the 'outlines of the paper sizes' ? thanks. - woody >> > ps. do you folks get any tips ( thoughts ) about printing w/o a easel? >> [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > i am not well understand what you said. what is you mentioned 'bristol > board' and what's the 'outlines of the paper sizes' ? I use an orange card and draw an 8x10 rectangle on it using a black magic marker and another 8x10 rectangle at a right angle to the first one. This makes it easy to put the enlarging paper where I want it. Peter. Signaturepirwin@ktb.net > >> > ps. do you folks get any tips ( thoughts ) about printing w/o a easel? > [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > -- > pir...@ktb.net 1, how do you fix the cards on the enlarger baseboard and how do you fix the paper on the cards? 2, what the second rectangle use for? thanks. - woody > can anyone please help me compare the LPL (Japan made) and Saunders > Easel? it seems the LPL easel is so much more expensive than LPL's. I assume you mean " ...the SAUNDERS easel is so much more expensive..." and that you're comparing to the LPL economy easel. (LPL now makes a four blade model that costs about the same as a Saunders) If you examine them in person, you'll know. I've used both; the Saunders is a precision piece of equipment, almost like a fine camera. Thin blades that slide smoothly and stay perpendicular; little to no play in the hinge; enought weight to keep it in place. Will you see much difference in your prints? Probably not. the difference is how much cursing in the dark you'll do. For an "economy" 4-blade find an older 14x17 Omega (pre-Saunders) not quite as nice as the newer beastie but a lot of bang for the buck. darkroommike >> can anyone please help me compare the LPL (Japan made) and Saunders >> Easel? it seems the LPL easel is so much more expensive than LPL's. [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > Will you see much difference in your prints? Probably not. the > difference is how much cursing in the dark you'll do. > For an "economy" 4-blade find an older14x17Omega > (pre-Saunders) not quite as nice as the newer beastie but a > lot of bang for the buck. > darkroommike i found in the site: http://www.omegasatter.com/v2/products/displayproduct.cfm?ProdID=3267 that a LPL easel labeled as Omega/LPL. what means Omega/LPL ? > > For an "economy" 4-blade find an older14x17Omega > > (pre-Saunders) not quite as nice as the newer beastie but a [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > http://www.omegasatter.com/v2/products/displayproduct.cfm?ProdID=3267 > that a LPL easel labeled as Omega/LPL. what means Omega/LPL ? Omega distributes the LPL easels and enlargers. SignatureGeorge W. Bush is the President Quayle we never had. > In article <1171300582.383905.82...@a34g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>, > [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > Will you see much difference in your prints? Probably not. the > difference is how much cursing in the dark you'll do. Scott, did you mean that there are almost same in the results between using a LPL or SAUNDERS? - woody > did you mean that there are almost same in the results between using a > LPL or SAUNDERS? Yes, or any other easel. In terms of the finished print, the visible differences would be in how crisp the edges are, how straight the sides are, and to a lesser extent how sharp the extreme edges of the print are. A good easel will have thin blades to give a nice crisp edge. It will hold the blades exactly perpendicular so the printed area is a true rectangle. it will also hold the paper as flat as possible for best focus. All of these are subtle. Heck, much as I love the Saunders I still have Speed Easels which fail miserably on points one and three; but they're "good enough." |
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