Reprovit 11a

[ogrove]

I have just had a complete Reprovit 11a given to my Museum complete with two mint MDA Leica bodies , plus all the light boxes, timers , reflexion curtains, instruction books and spare light bulbs ,has anybody used or still using Reprovit 11a setup ?

ogrove

[doubice]

Originally Posted by ogrove

I have just had a complete Reprovit 11a given to my Museum complete with two mint MDA Leica bodies , plus all the light boxes, timers , reflexion curtains, instruction books and spare light bulbs ,has anybody used or still using Reprovit 11a setup ?

ogrove

I doubt if anybody is still using the Reprovit it the 'digital era'..... I used to use it about 20 - 25 years ago, while at McGill University in Montreal. It is a superb apparatus and once mastered, extremely quick to use.

Best,

Jan

[Michael Hiles]

As a copying unit, it is unequaled. Unless you want to put an M8 on it, you are limited to film. But its qualities are so fine that if you need to do serious copying, I think that the Reprovit would still be the way to go. If you need digital images, the film can be very successfully scanned.

Oddly, I used one about 25 years ago at Corcordia University - 15 blocks away from McGill in Montreal.

[doubice]

Originally Posted by Michael Hiles

As a copying unit, it is unequaled. Unless you want to put an M8 on it, you are limited to film. But its qualities are so fine that if you need to do serious copying, I think that the Reprovit would still be the way to go. If you need digital images, the film can be very successfully scanned.

Oddly, I used one about 25 years ago at Corcordia University - 15 blocks away from McGill in Montreal.

......And all these Reprovits were probably supplied by Photokina Technic on Rue de Maisonneuve, the store where my Leica madness begun in earnest .......

Jan

[gyoung]

Originally Posted by doubice

......And all these Reprovits were probably supplied by Photokina Technic on Rue de Maisonneuve, the store where my Leica madness begun in earnest .......

Jan

Me too...
We sold quite a few to McGill, dont remember Concordia though, there was Sir George Williams (?) and Universite de Montreal.

Gerry (who was at PK just before Jan)

[Michael Hiles]

Originally Posted by gyoung

Me too...
We sold quite a few to McGill, dont remember Concordia though, there was Sir George Williams (?) and Universite de Montreal.

Gerry (who was at PK just before Jan)

Sir George Williams University and Loyola College merged about 1974 to become Concordia University. Concordia is very well respected, has a famous/highly rated business school, and runs an annual international business school case competition (largest in the world) at which I am honoured to be a judge.

[gyoung]

Originally Posted by doubice

......And all these Reprovits were probably supplied by Photokina Technic on Rue de Maisonneuve, the store where my Leica madness begun in earnest .......

Jan

Probably delivered in this...... from the store..............
a couple of Agfachomes (1969 & 1967, M3 50 Elmar) which have not aged well. Zeiss paid the bill for the shop sign I think!

[doubice]

Originally Posted by gyoung

Probably delivered in this...... from the store..............
a couple of Agfachomes (1969 & 1967, M3 50 Elmar) which have not aged well. Zeiss paid the bill for the shop sign I think!

Now THAT brings back memories......! I used that VW bus to move my own Beseler 45 enlarger!

Zeiss stopped paying the bills and sign changed to Photo-kina Technic in about 1970.

Amazing....

Jan

[gyoung]

Originally Posted by doubice

Now THAT brings back memories......! I used that VW bus to move my own Beseler 45 enlarger!

Zeiss stopped paying the bills and sign changed to Photo-kina Technic in about 1970.

Amazing....

Jan

Thought you might like those Jan.

Our first campervan (in the UK) was based on the same model VW, so I am very familiar with them.

Actually the 67 was before I got the M3 so OT equipment I'm afraid (Pentax S1a)

Gerry