Mr. Imperial'ist meet Mr.Lentar L69

   I got this Lentar L69 photo enlarger and it works. Sure hell yeah it was free, like all the bad good things in life. The glass is covered enough dust to write hello on it, the light works great, the red safety lens cover is intact and plus the lens and bellow are freaking there. Bell shaped blue monster may create a photo but it's coming this machine, why you ask, well because it only has a 35mm slot. That's the suck part of this whole thing, so I went ahead and crammed the 120 negative I there anyway and hit the switch. Thought for sure my ass would laying on the floor due to some electrical short but that didn't happened(sweating bullets).

Lentar L69 photo enlarger.

      Low and behold an image appeared out of focus and few quick turns the photo becomes clear. Now all of my chemicals are at Edward Crimm's STLPA.com studio, craptastic. So, I am going to rip this machine apart to clean it and take it to Ed's. If any one has a 120mm slide for the enlarger let me know.  When I print the photos, I will do a limited amount, if you would an original email me with details and I could send you one.

Imperial'ist test time and broken virginity's

        After spending 40 dollars at Creve Couer camera in Edwardsville for developer, fixer bath etc.... I called Ed Crimm of STLPA.COM and asked if he would help tear through my virginity on developing 120 film. Ed had his own film company for awhile and so he had to get everything out of  storage. Any way we are at his his studio on Hoodiamont off the Delamr Loop. He got everything mixed, conquered the first roll with results. I did study every move he made. I got in the black box, looped the spool, grabbed the steel tank and went to mixing. We concluded 70 degrees and 10 minutes would suffice. I am super duper stoked on doing this,  crap'ola I get result. I am so glad that Ed was kind of enough to take time out of his day for schooling on developing film. I thought he said  it was years last time he had done this, like that poof  Jedi sense was there between student and master.

The Negative from the first roll.

  I have shot many of 35mm film and always out for to be processed by someone. When I got this Imperial Reflex I knew this was a must do by hand. So my cherry got POPPED on developing, so hooked.  The smell of the fixer reminded me of Maritz lab's in  Fenton,Mo. My mom worked in the developing department for their film, huge giant machines with pools of chemicals. A smell you can't forget.

Negatives inverted.

        I took the negatives to Creve Couer Camera to be scanned, suck's that I must wait about week to get them back but hey, this project is coming along. When I get the Digital back, we post it up on here.