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Dear Sarah,

I bought a very large Durst 507 large format enlarger, with the bellows and lens/plates from RK Photographic for £400 a few years ago and converted it to a copystand, I know a few of us have done this conversion, so it's quite common to reuse old gear.

Anyway, RK have lots of old gear for sale that you can rummage around, so I would think a smaller old enlarger could be procured within your budget, as they sell them without the enlarging lens/bellows to enable easy conversion. The threads are all standard small/large tripod so you just mount a tripod head on the enlarger and away you go.

On the lights, you could use the cheap interfit tungsten lights if they still make them, or search ebay for the cheap Chinese flash units.

I'm sure others will have a view on all this.

Tony

Tony Harris

Digital Media & Photography Manager
Government Art Collection
Queen's Yard, Tottenham Court Road, London, W1T 7PA

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On Mon, 8 Oct 2018 at 12:17, Sarah Mercer <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Hi all,

I am currently undertaking a voluntary collections project for the William Morris Gallery in Walthamstow. As part of my work I have offered to advise on and hopefully set up a photographic workflow for their collections management, initially just for works on paper ranging from designs for stained glass, wallpapers and tapestries, to fine art prints and studies by Morris and his circle. The gallery has a very small budget (being council run) but already has a few Canon 1200ds, another volunteer has offered to lend a 5d mk iii and I am looking into borrowing a 100mm prime lens.

What I'd initially love to source for them is a copystand set up and lights, however purchasing these items new is far out of the reach of their budget. Does anyone know somewhere I can either source these items second hand for £200-£300, or somewhere I could potentially borrow these items from for short periods of time?

I am open to any suggestions - bearing in mind the gallery is unlikely to achieve best practice at this stage, it would be great to hear any compromise solutions other than the above.

Many thanks!

Sarah
Sarah Mercer

Special Collections Project Officer

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