Plt viewer. Introduction I know very little about DeVere except that they made large, higher end equipment (which is probably why I never saw them).
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Just as an intro I am starting to get into film photography after a long absence. A beginner beginning again. Bought myself a MF camera and in the process (forgive the pun) of developing my own negatives. Not sure at the moment whether to go down the route of scanning the negatives and using a printer; or go back to a traditional wet room? I need to find out more of what is still involved. If I want to print my negatives I will need an enlarger and I believe the devere enlargers are among the best, in terms of producing good quality prints and also in build quality. I want eventually to go onto LF so perhaps need a 504?
Can anyone give me advice on the different devere models and am I going down the right road? Thanks for all your help. I am looking on ebay for a DeVere, though it was mentioned that a Durst can be equally good.
When you start looking into the type of emlarger to go for, the Devere always comes out at the top. From what I have read, the 504 will meet most, if not all, printing needs. The smaller 203 also seems good, and again appears will meet most printing needs. Pricing for secondhand is not an issue as I have seen 203 selling higher than a similar 504; when you would expect it to be the other way round. Is it better to have a free-standing model or a bench model (if size is not imnportant)for printing? I guess I am just going to have to take the plunge when one comes along, and just buy it, then try it out! Not sure if anyone is still interested, but for what its worth I used a DeVere 504 with cold cathode head for 25 years from 1977, almost exclusively for 5x4 but sometimes for 6x6 and 35mm.
It was (still is) a wonderful enlarger, built like a battleship, very high precision and absolutely reliable. The advantages of cold cathode head: diffuse light minimises negative dust, scratches or defects; it prints softer that collimated head (which artificially increases contrast); and cold source prevents negative distortion through heat expansion.
Possible disadvantages: B&W only and won't work with multigrade paper, due to noncontinuous spectrum of cold light source. Because the light window is 5x4, exposure times are longer for smaller neg formats. Can be annoying on 35mm but no problem on 6x6 though. You may have already found a DeVere but here's a few pointers - I've been using them for 20 years. The 405 will allow up to 4x5 negs using a couple of different light sources. The light source will most often be a colour head with adjustable dials for amounts of Cyan, Magenta, Yellow; the colours are transmitted through opalescent perpex and is a reasonable choice for printing traditional BW paper. The other choice for BW is a condensor head that uses an opalesceent bulb together with condensor lenses: big blocks of glass that are hard to find and expensive so don't drop them.
Good points is they are very sharp but downside is they will show up every blemish and grain of dust you really didn't want. Other choices are Multigrade Head - becoming so rare you shouldn't even bother looking for one. The microchips were one-offs and when they go bang that's the end of your system.
Finally Cold Cathode heads. I only ever used one at college and they seemed the work of the devil. I know some people use them but some people swear by hairshirts and enemas - it's up to you! Things that can go wrong with DeVere's 1. The counterweight spring breaks - replacement are hopefully available from Odyssey Sales for an extortionate amount but you're stuffed without one.
Cable breaks - you may well get a bicycle repair shop to make one or go to Odyssey That's about all that goes wrong. I've not used a 203 but I'm sure they are well made, just restricts you to.
35mm/120 film I think?? Durst enlarger are OK if they have been looked after (not kicked around) They have lots of plastic in their construction and in use feel like driving a Fiat Uno compared to a VW Golf.
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To order by phone, call us at (905) 670-5166. Many of the DeVere manuals listed here are also available in our. Canadian orders are subject to applicable taxes. Vertical Enlargers Code Description Price DV-108 DeVere 108S & 108A/F Enlargers Manual 22.00 DV-203 DeVere 203 Enlarger Manual 22.00 DV-504 DeVere 504 Enlarger Manual 22.00 DV-507 DeVere 507 Enlarger Manual 22.00 DV-515 DeVere 515 Enlarger Manual 22.00 DV-5108 DeVere 5108 Enlarger Manual 22.00 DV-APL DeVere Apollo Enlarger Manual 22.00 DV-VUL DeVere Vulcan Enlarger Manual 22.00.
I have a 4x5 DeVere with the colour head (not closed loop) and it's beautiful. DeVere equipment is very rugged, but also very well-machined. They are a dream to use. However, they weigh a ton. Check out the cost of shipping before bidding too high.
I had an opportunity to buy a 5x7 closed loop DeVere but I passed because I am distrustful of the long term dependability of electronics (yah, I know, the colour head has electronics). Having said that, ANYONE will tell you that such opinions are foolish and that DeVere equipment is very dependable.
The auction being discussed is It says that it has '4x5' / MF / 35mm masks' and was made 12 years ago, so it must be a conventional enlarger for projecting film rather than a very new model that projects a digital LCD to the paper. I agree with Don, and this also applies to the Durst closed loop models. What happens if the fancy custom electronics breaks in ten years? It might be unrepairable. The mechanices on these enlarger can be fixed by an excellent machinst, but the electronics could be harder, particularly if there are custom parts. This was probably the ulimate enlarger for the pro lab that wanted very high through-put, but how much time is auto-focus going to save the amateur?
Of course its a normal enlarger - i.e. For negs and positive. The point is that this 504 DeVere co-ordinated the Closed Loop head with the motorised Autofocus mechanism to mean that they work together for better productivity and accuracy. Very different to the regular 504, which you can find all the time. I used an AF one once, and you simply tap in the size you want on the keyboard, and then it moves and focuses at exactly the right point.
You can set it up with as many of your lenses as you want, from 40mm to 210mm. The AF on that one was always spot on. Which for some reason surprised me! The same keyboard controls the color head values, and exposure timer. It seems built like a tank, and the AF mechanism is completely over engineered, so thats likely to give decades of good service untouched.
In any case the manual focussing handwheels are right there still. As for the C/L color head, well, I know they can be serviced, and in the total worst case, you could just put a regular (non closed loop) DeVere color head on there. I have also moved a regular Freestanding 504 before, and its not so bad - put the head to the top, remove the color head and drop table, split the column (4 bolts) and it fitted in my car.
These were very expensive items new though, and I dont think a lot were made, so kind of surprised to see an individual photographer had one, when you could buy a nice car for the same $. Raj - I've had two of these exact enlargers for 10 years, and nothing has gone wrong with either of them, not even once. So I have no idea where you get your information from, (durst?) but its dubious. Yes ZBE no longer makes this models guts, but they are still very much in business, and there's plenty of people in the UK who service them and have the knowledge to fix anything, and have parts. But like I say, all I ever needed was the rare service. If it did go wrong, theres always the manual handwheels (like a normal 504 DeVere) so - thats the worst that could happen: having to use it like a regular 504!
Mine have worked flawlessly for over a decade. Seems boring to report it, but thats how it is. Peter, I too have a couple of these incredible enlargers and recommend them highly. The ultimate tag mentioned in the epay listing isnt quite right and would have to go to Zac Bogarts (ZBE) Sentinel enlarger. He took all the knowledge from his time developing the listed enlarger with DeVere, refined the design and made one called the Sentinel.
Its manual (available online) reads pretty much like the devere version. The electronics are probably identical I think his improvements were more in the opto mechanical sensors, a streamlined body and of course the Starlite 55 head which is incredible and in my opinion the best colour head ever made (I have one). Its a huge improvement over the Closed loop DeVere variety. But Sentinels are almost impossible to source here in the UK and you'd be mad to ship one from the US.
Regardless the Ebay listed DeVere is great. I have the exact same one in both floor standing and bench mount configuration plus a bench mount AF chassis with an Ilford MG head. This is my idea of a great darkroom setup. I find it really does what it says on the box so long as you ensure everything is precisely recalibrated on a fairly regular basis (not to complex or time consuming). Though it may sound gimmicky to people who havent used this system, being able to go to a precise print size in a flash and in perfect focus is such a time saver. But where it really shines is when start by gettng a good print at say 8x10 then bring it up to something like 16x20 or whatever and immediately bang out a perfect print.
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The head compensates everything for you including paper stock for it has a number of channels. Then you save your set up which you can return to any time later and after minor touch up to adjust for the inevitable colour processor drift you have the same print. The closed loop function takes care of drift from lamp aging. Its also compatible with BBS video analysers (dirt cheap these days). This is essentially a colour head with a sensor built in and mounted upside down ala slide copier. A calibrated video camera shows your neg on a high quality monitor and you adjust the filtration until it looks right then transfer the sensor readout to your AF Devere / Starlite and voila 90% hit rate first print but you do have to calibrate the video analyser daily. Still its great for hard and fast colour printing sessions.
I can see why these were very popular in Custom labs specialising in high turnover stuff like wedding photos. They are built very well, the computer side electronics are relatively basic and serviceable, nothing too exotic. The encoders and motors may be a different story but as mentioned in a post above, this is industrial grade stuff made to work hard and last. It was also designed for quick and easy service. The ebay listing is on the expensive side but if you are a pro actually making ends meet in analogue then Id call it a fair deal.
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I paid a lot less than this. All this was ultra cutting edge around the start of the 90s and of course laughably Jurassic in this photoshop and inkjet era but I love it and wont be dropping it in a hurry. I see it as a perfect example of digitally controlled analogue and it works (well most of the time) I say haggle, I cant see anyone beating down his / her door at that price. Peter, The Sentinel came in all three configurations, bench, free standing and wall mount.
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The Sentinel is in my opinion a definite engineering improvement on the Devere. Zac Bogart is an absolute perfectionist and as far as I can see he took all that he learnt from the Devere collaboration and refined the design significantly for his Sentinel. Have you ever seen a ZBE Sentinel neg carrier? Its an absolute, impeccably machined engineering masterpiece. His version didn't have interchangeable format inserts like the De vere but instead the system used altogether separate carriers for every format to avoid any minute shift which the Devere carriers are very prone to. This carrier shift is a non issue on a manual enlarger but a huge deal on an AF system thats calibrated to 1/1000th of an inch, something that happens to the de vere carriers with the simple act of changing neg formats.
Once it drops out you have to faf about recalibrating the carrier, something that barely ever happens on a Sentinel. The Sentinel encoder system was notably improved over the Devere, not to mention inclusion of a lens turret that informs the computer of which lens is active. There are many good reasons to move to a turret in fact Im surprised De Vere didt offer it as an option. Constant attachment and removal of Devere lens panels puts stress on the lens stage which eventually drifts out of alignment (remember, 1/1000th of an inch aint much) and forces you to realign the system fairly regularly.
Devere lens plate removal is a clumsy affair and can result in accidental drops by careless employees under pressure. The turret does away with all this and lens change takes all of a couple of seconds. Zac Bogarts Sentinel was designed for his brilliant AF system from the ground up.
A system that was essentially tacked on to the existing De Vere enlarger. It came together beautifully as the Sentinel and this is definitely my idea of the ultimate techno enlarger ever made, so damn good.
Id take a sentinel over a Devere any day, but saying this I still love my three AF ZBE / DE Vere enlargers despite a few minor design niggles like mechanical drift. I can deal with this as a non Pro, but it would have been a real wind up in a busy pro lab back in the day. The lab I bought my colour AF enlargers from said that they got so fed up with recalibrating that they ended up using the system to get in the ball park auto size wise then switch into manual for final focusing. When treated with respect I find the Devere stays in line pretty well but I wouldnt want to run it hard day in day out. The Sentinel on the other hand is built to take a Pro hammering. DeVERE 504 manual and help with filter/timer keyboard controller made by ZBE inc. Does anyone have a Devere504 with closed loop head?
If you do you use one, would you have the manual for the Power Supply and filter/timer keyboard controller made by ZBE inc. Please, or any advice? The power supply was had a label underneath (none on front, just two switches and a push button) reads RST Developments repaired by CANLEY. How to do a clean uninstall of firefox.
My goal is to use a Analyzer Pro (RH Designs) to control the head, and wonder if that analyzer can be attached to control the head, with or without the ZBE keyboard? Best wishes, Gerry.