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New Replacement Lamps Available for Aristo Cold Light Heads
wrote in message ... (Posted here for those who may not visit the rec.photo.darkroom group very frequently.) Due to continuing market demand, the company that acquired the now defunct Aristo Grid Lamp Products has made a decision to reintroduce replacement fluorescent lamp grids for a number of the long discontinued Aristo cold light enlarger heads. Voltarc, Inc. recently completed an initial re-engineering of the lamp for the D2-HI V54 cold light head, and produced a new manufacturing run of this product. Sales from this initial effort were sufficient to convince Voltarc to proceed with a re-engineering of lamp grids for the Aristo VCL4500 (4x5) and VCL8100 (8x10) variable contrast heads. These are the dual- lamp, green and blue grids. Only the lamps themselves are being reintroduced. No other newly manufactured replacements parts for any Aristo cold light head assemblies are being offered. Voltarc is now accepting names on an interest list for the anticipated reintroduction of the above two VCL replacement lamps. The announcement is expected to be made near the end of January 2011, providing no unforseen obstacles are encountered. Pricing has not yet been determined, but is expected to be in the ballpark of the final published Aristo price for these replacement lamps. If you are interested in getting on the interest list to be notified when these lamps become available, you can do so by sending an email to Louise Kessler of Voltarc, Inc. at: Adding your name to this list does not obligate you to purchase anything. It is for notification purposes only. If you are interested in purchasing one of the new D2-HI V54 lamps you can also do that with a email to Louise at the same address. If sales continue to justify it, Voltarc has indicated its willingness to continue reintroducing additional grid lamp models for other Aristo heads in the future. For more information, please also see the following thread on the Analog Photography Users Group (APUG) Darkroom Equipment forum: http://www.apug.org/forums/forum43/8...an-2011-a.html For the record, I have no business or financial stake in Aristo/ Voltarc. Only a desire to see them continue to reintroduce these replacement lamps for the users of the now discontinued light sources. I think this is good thing for the future of analog photography in general as it continues its transition into a niche market. And it's a great opportunity for those of us who continue to use the original Aristo cold light head units. Ken Thanks for posting this. I am sure there are a lot of Aristo lamps still in use. -- -- Richard Knoppow Los Angeles, CA, USA |
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wrote in message ... On Dec 21, 1:07 pm, "Richard Knoppow" wrote: Thanks for posting this. I am sure there are a lot of Aristo lamps still in use. -- -- Richard Knoppow Los Angeles, CA, USA - Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Although I moved on from the newsgroups quite a while ago to escape the generally abusive behavior, your posts have always been extremely useful to me. I would be remiss if I did not offer a note of thanks for your generosity and willingness to help. Please feel free to forward this information to any other forums you - or anyone else reading this - may feel are appropriate. While my own needs will be met with a new production run of VCL4500 replacement lamps, I would like to continue spreading the word regarding these lamp reintroductions by Voltarc. As I said before, they seem willing to expand the lamp models offered if there is sufficient interest. And I know of a number of darkroom printers who would love to get replacements for their 12x12 lamp grids, as well as other less popular configurations. Louise has stated that Voltarc created a list of the twenty most popular lamp models from which they are working. If at all possible I would prefer that users further down that list not be left out in the cold. Ken Thank you Ken and Stephy for the compliments, I really do appreciate them. Aristo was around for a long time and made some lamps for some unusual enlargers like the big Saltzman jobs that made them practical. They also made lamps usable for building enlarging adaptors for view cameras. I am glad someone picked up this niche product, which IMO is still very useful. The market for traditional (i.e, film based) photograpy has shrunk to a fraction of its original size but there seems to be a stable remaining market made up of those dinosaures like myself who enjoy using film and the challenges it presents. -- -- Richard Knoppow Los Angeles, CA, USA |
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