581 Yesterday someone gave me an enlarger, which they said was a very fine one, used by many fine-arts printmakers. It was installed on a Beseler frame and the person giving it told me it was a Beseler. Turns out that instead the head is a ZBE Oriental New Seagull Model VC-CLS (it does have a Beseler 50 mm lens)<p>I went looking on the Web for a manual for it and promptly ran into some troubling information. On several listserves I found postings about how one cannot get replacement bulbs and how ZBE no longer supports this model.<p>So, should I even bother to re-assemble it? It is obviously a significant enlarger (prints to 16x20, it appears). I have yet to re-establish a wet darkroom (will have to incur some cost to do it), so I am wondering if this enlarger is likely to be more trouble than it is worth. Thoughts from those with experience or knowledge of this model.... 7 2009-10-15T13:45:12Z 0 2009-10-15T13:45:12Z false 30276 false 2403 2009-10-17T22:58:35Z Washington, DC true 2010-04-15T00:00:00Z false anybody-had-experience-with-a-zbe-vc-vls-enlarger 1 2009-10-17T22:58:35Z 6750