{"id":26727,"date":"2023-08-30T01:03:07","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T05:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=26727"},"modified":"2023-08-30T02:01:16","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T06:01:16","slug":"in-the-dark-of-the-night-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/in-the-dark-of-the-night-2\/","title":{"rendered":"in the dark of the night"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lot 274 – a Kodak glass plate enlarger ready for a new home<\/p><\/div>\n

Toronto<\/strong>. One of the thrills (and skills) of film is to watch \u00a0a print miraculously appear in the developer tray in a darkroom lit by a dim rubyish light. Every darkroom has its enlarger and\/or contact printer ready to crank out paper prints converting a negative image to a positive one.<\/p>\n

About a century ago, enlargers were a ‘nice to have’ accessory for owners of large cameras to make oversize prints.\u00a0When minicams came along in the 1930s, they were down right essential!<\/p>\n

The tiny contact print of a 35mm negative (an inch by an inch and a half) took very young, very perfect eyes to see detail. Enlargers gave decent size prints (double or more in size) so us older folk could see the detail too.<\/p>\n

Long before minicams took over, Kodak leaped into the market with its enlarger for glass plates allowing modest enlargements to be made by amateurs – and even professionals were amateurs at some time! Of course enlargers were known long before this Kodak version – even before electricity reached almost every home in the city.<\/p>\n

In our September 17th auction<\/a>, the lovely Kodak Enlarger (horizontal model ?) (lot 274) will go under the hammer. Here is a chance to add an unusual enlarger to your collection. And collectors of cameras, or images, or Stanhopes, or paperweights, etc. will find this an auction not to be missed too!<\/em><\/p>\n

Please note that the link above to the main auction post includes both the poster<\/a> and a slide show<\/a> of every lot! Take a peek and you are sure to spot that must have<\/em> item for your collection.<\/p>\n

NB: The title of this post was inspired by Canadian Norman Jewison’s wonderful 1967 movie, “In the Heat of the Night<\/a>” featuring the great Sidney Poitier as Tibbs, the black detective stuck in a rather bigoted (at the time) American south.<\/p>\n

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