NEW Intrepid Enlarger. What's it like? 

Link to get the enlarger. www.kickstarter.com/projects/1436129614/the-intrepid-compact-enlarger-print-and-scan-35mm-and-120?ref=8znm0w

I'm so glad your channel is getting enough recognition that companies are reaching out to you! Hope that keeps you motivated to make these awesome videos

It is great to see that the photographery industry is calling on you to display their products. Thank you for your great program.

Rog, as I predicted, you have become an ‘influencer,’ mate! They’re sending you stuff to try out. You’re on a roll and well deserved too. No better reviewer of analog out there on this channel, who tells it as it is, in a ‘Down to Earth’ way, and who is highly watchable. Next time I am on the ‘island,’ I am inclined to buy you a drink!

This would be perfect for being in a van in the road!

I am on the look out for something like this to get into darkroom printing.

That enlarger is pretty darn cool. Young people getting back into "analog" photography need to know about this. Great solution for an apartment, or even a dorm room. Winner!

This enlarger will bring back a lot of people in the darkroom! Always happy when new gadgets for analog photography are coming to market.

Looks like exactly what I need in my city apartment! Gonna be backing that one for sure, as long as it isn't super expensive.

Intrepid told me they are going to support up to 6x9 so that’s going to be great, finally a compact enlarger for my favourite format

compact size and the flexibility of the various formats is key here - really interesting - lets hope they do well with this

This would be a great option for travel. Especially for contact prints or proofs. You can drag the whole setup around in a suitcase.

Was waiting for this one! What a game-changer for those of us with limited space. I think I would definitely prefer an old-school enlarger in a dedicated darkroom but this might just be my first colour enlarger for now!

Playing catch up with Intrepid😊

I have a fully stocked darkroom with enlargers for 4x5 down to 35mm. I will buy this one for a simple reason...I like to travel. This looks like a wonderful way when going on a long trip to still be able to make some prints. Love it!

That's really interesting. As you know the diagonal of the neg determines the 'normal' focal length. So for a 6x7 ideally you's have a 90mm enlarging lens. I for one would have problems with the extra height that would need in the darkroom/bathroom if I was attaching to a tripod. That said, the built in filters would be useful. I've never really understood why people bother with physical filters when they could just use a colour head!

I want one as well, space has been holding me back and I think this will help! I think this will be great for us that want to do some developing.

Fantastic! Looking forward to this- depending on price of course

Good review mate. Looking forward to when they give indication of price.

This makes me want an intrepid.

Cool that they include the possibility to print color and up to 6x7 in such a small setup. Looking forward to March!

Thanks. Very useful. Good luck too!

What excites me is the light source.

This enlarger is the coolest thing for darkrooms EVER made. Since I do not have a color enlarger yet I will go and take part in the kickstarter campain. Thank you for sharing the really insightful review.

Awesome idea. If I hadn't already had an enlarger and a dedicated darkroom space I would surely consider getting this device.

Good luck to them. Great idea. I don’t know if they can incorporate battery power into that - might be handy.

We don't have a space I can use as a dark room, but I'm thinking of getting one of these, and one of the ilford darkroom tents, but probably after my other half has forgotten the camera(s) I bought recently.

The Intrepid enlarger looks like a great product. Nice and compact for easy storage. I like the idea of being able to use it as a light box for digitising with a camera. My only wish would be a 6x9 mask. Another 👍🏻s up for a great YT vid.

Both you and Ribsy have thrown up the problem of tripod legs getting in the way! Hopefully intrepid will pick up on this!

Thanks for another great informative video, looks like another innovative product from Intrepid. Hopefully it'll be in a decent price range and we'll be able to expand into darkroom printing

Thanks for the review! I’m on the list of backers for this project, and I can’t wait till they start shipping out. I’m constantly on the road and I have a small suitcase enlarger I normally use. But this looks like an upgrade in every way! The little things like built in safe light make a big difference when your constantly carrying your life 3000 miles back and forth from coast to coast. This looks like a huge weight, space, and time saver for my uses.

Intrepid does some really innovative things. It's nice that you can switch the focus knob, I would actually need to use it on the bottom due to my shoulders.

Brilliant for anyone looking to get into printing, or limited space. Nice looking prints again Roger. Handy bit of kit.

I currently use a reversed enlarger lens and bellows to digitize my negatives, it would be really cool if you could remove the light source and replace it with a digi camera body. The light source could then be placed on the baseboard to backlight your negative. It would be the ultimate 'all in one'!

Great video again

This is spectacular! I already have an enlarger, but it's a 4x5 beast, so this one is ultra appealing since all of the filtering is so easily done and I don't need the larger size options all the time. I didn't even think about the ease of use for split grade printing, too. If they don't price this way beyond their existing enlarger kit, I'm so supporting this.

Looks interesting as an enlarger. don't need to touch anything on the head for split filter printing. I am fussy about parallel alignment: film plane / lens / paper.

Seems like a brilliant idea - just found this after thinking about getting my own darkroom setup. For near $400 though, wish it came with lenses at least. Bit pricey for me!

would have liked your opinion on the quality of the image, ie focus, vignette, etc to other older enlargers, but your images look good, maybe with old cameras we don't need super-duper, etc. Onother great video, thanks!

Intrepid are a great company, they believe in film and there investment in making items like this keeps it alive and kicking, great video, Roger

Nice tool!

Like some of other comments have said, this might be a game-changer for those of us who want to start printing at home, but have limited space. Even better, it seems like it's suitable for RA-4 colour printing too. Just think - it would be possible to make real optical colour prints with little more than this enlarger, a suitable tripod, and a small drum processor. If using a little drum processor instead of open trays, then doing colour at home would take up even less room than black and white developing.

As a complete amateur it's a bit beyond my needs but what a great system it looks.

Thanks Roger for sharing this, looks very lightweight.

Oh wow! I am definitely investing in this as soon as Intrepid makes it available!

it would be VERY cool if it had an option for a 'swing out' wall mount adapter. WOW. it looks very cool. i especially like the digital control box. $1000 is a bit pricey IMO. :D

Looks perfect...cant wait

Looks like a good piece of kit. I wonder if they will upgrade the lighting on the full format enlarger to match this, with built in filter. That really would be something.

I wouldn't no we're to start in the darkroom lol. But looks good, small and compacted. And easy to put away

I'm waiting for their 4x5 enlarger to arrive (any time now I hope) but I asked if they would make a 4x5 color enlarger and seems they will... I can't wait ;)

Brilliantly presented, it looks amazing 👍

The main thing I got excited about was the fact I can change BW contrast or RA4 filtering without touching the enlarger. I love that! Easily the most exciting feature! Given that I do have the space for a conventional enlarger, I do prefer something stout like that. I hope that Intrepid are either working on a copystand/gantry of their own or are working on having a set of solid recommendations. That's really the weakest link I think. I also am hoping the timer is hackable to some degree :) since I've been waiting for the Maya to come (I think we may finally see it soon) and it has a ton of features I'm excited about as well. I assume Intrepid will be updating their 4x5 enlarger with some of these features too, though the Main Event for me would be an 8x10. They've teased about that they are at least looking into something like that. To mere say that would be a game changer is a dramatic understatement to how big of a deal that would be. So all told, I'm really REALLY excited to see all the work Intrepid is putting into making a proper modern enlarger for the 2020's. I love the old conventional ones but my goodness - again not having to fiddle with dials and filters on the enlarger head itself and not needing a super hot and bright bulb, it's such a dramatic step forward.

This is exactly what we need!

looks like a promising bit of gear. Not something I need as I built myself a dedicated darkroom, but anything that gets more people into wet printing the better.

I have a 35mm enlarger and I am looking for a bigger one. But ... I do not want to spend too much on that.

This really does seem fantastic.. and more importantly also ideal for me. Just bought the same minolta x-7a and 50mm 1.7 that was the first film camera I used 20 years ago... as I've just had an idea for a project. Anyway I'm limited on space and can't have a dedicated darkroom or a big enlarger... if be happy to wait and see what happens with this.

I hope they will do a 4x5 or bigger version of that lightsource and controller. Would be nice to update old b&w enlarger with that. Heilandelectronic offers something similar but quite expensive. Curious how the price will be…

I suppose it’s a good option for some folks? It’s not something for me though. My darkroom is my second home, I know every inch of it like the back of my hand. And that timer looks like a fail to me. I just prefer a simple “set the time” timer, without thinking too much about it? It’s nice to see it though!

Love this vid, want to get into darkroom printing and this might just do the trick!

That's really nice. It would be nice to have 6x9 and 6x12 holder options as well. With something like that I could well go back to wet process work.

Grait idea and a nice video, well done roger

Looks like an awesome product. Small and compact compared to traditional enlargers

It would be nice to see it for 4x5 negs

It looks well thought out. I maybe interested in this as a means of scanning negs provided the price is not too crazy.

now you just to need intrepid to send you a mkiv so you can start doing some large format stuff.

Great idea!

Love the compactness of the simulated contrast filters, color filters, safelight, and timer in one small unit. Having to use a tripod though makes this more challenging to setup than I would prefer. Why don’t they sell an enlarger stand with a baseboard as an optional add-on? I’m a bathroom printer and use a Durst M301. It’s a tiny enlarger for 35mm film that stores away nice and easy. I can set it up and be ready to print in 5 minutes

Interesting. The timer needs a port for connecting an external foot switch.

Was looking forward to this! How does the quality fair compared to the enlarger you usually use? Definitely looking to grab this for sure!

If this can be powered by AA rechargeable batteries as used in Rotolight Neo2 LED light it would be so useful for using in a bathroom.

One to keep an eye out for. Price point is going to be key. Looks like a goer though. Anything that packs away into a wee box makes life easier. What's the quality of the lens like, is it a bulb or led, maximum size of viable prints ..... many questions?

Going to have to look into this!!! I know that Intrepid sell a kit you can attach to their 4x5 camera, but I didn't know they were coming out with a dedicated enlarger head. Just wondering whether they'll produce a 4x5 carrier for the enlarger?

This looks great, but my big question is, how did you get power for the enlarger into your bathroom?

Good review, thank you. I like it and will be looking out for the Kickstarter. P.S - I received the print I got from your Etsy store a while ago ('Broken Buddha'), AND IT IS AWESOME!

Nifty...

If this thing is affordable, it might scratch my itch.

No 6x9? Bummer. Edit: Intrepid states that it does support 6x9! Might have overlooked it. A good review! I have a copy-stand that I use for "scanning" my negatives with my MFT camera - could be used with this, I guess. I have to keep this in mind …

Pretty neat :)... tempting... depending on prices :D. I'll keep my eyes on it. One of the reasons I don't have one is because I am limited on available space... and cheap :D.

More options the better, it can only be a good thing if it gets more people printing.

It's so small and portable you can take it anywhere and use it on your office home or bathroom Me looking at my besler enlarger trays safelight and chemicals in my bathroom Nice

Very interesting bit of kit. Build quality looks very good too. I wonder what the price point will be though.

Roger-thanks for this deep dive. Very interesting! I did not hear you mention whether you had to change lenses from the 50 to 80-ish to go from 35!to medium format. Was that necessary? I agree with others that the strong points here are 1-an enlarger to take with you on the road and 2-an enlarger able to produce both B&W and colour prints!

What I think is especially promising about this is that this is the first *new* enlarger to offer on the market in a couple decades. The fact that it includes all the new features you might expect from bringing the technology up to date (tri-color LED light source, programmable electronic controller/timer) and is made by the same company who can sell you a new 4x5 camera for a couple hundred quid is just icing on the cake. For myself, I'm a little disappointed to see it's not 4x5 capable, but then I guess that's due to the cost of a light panel big enough and even enough to print from 4x5 negatives. Or maybe the final Kickstarter version will be, but this is the light panel they could get up front for the prototype test units... If I didn't already have an Omega D2 with (almost ready to use) color head, I'd be all over that Kickstarter...

Bit silly they don't sell it with a stand (IMHO).

I’m interested in this if it’s a sensible price. 👍🏻

What a great collaboration! I'll be interested to hear your comparison of this process to your standard workflow if you think it worthwhile. Do you think you'd appreciate the extra room in your main darkroom and would a system like this replace any of your current equipment? Do you think we'll get to see some color enlargements from you using this system in the future? Keep up the great work! Love your videos. I just bought two enlargers a few months back and I'm getting up the courage to get back in the darkroom myself (just need to set up a space for it). Something like this system would honestly have worked better for my current living situation (studio apartment) but alas I already have the big bois.

Really interesting. Can you tell me at what distance is there between the objective and the print bed for a 30 x 40cm magnification? With 35mm film and 50mm lens.Thank you. Giovanni. Italia

How did you manage to use the grain focuser? Because with me it is impossible to see... :(

I am curious as to how you got your enlarger aligned? I imagine that might be a bit of an issue/hassle because you would have to align it perfect perpendicular to your workbench?

Did Intrepid provide the lens or is that one of your own?

Hey Roger, is there only 1 focusing knob? Is there a fine focus knob? Can’t seem to find it. Can’t really get a nice 8x10 frame

I've a question: Isn't it too light? Doesn't it move standing on a tripod? Classic enlargers used to be very heavy and came with heavy stands built-in. They were standing as steady as rocks; does this stay as steady as those?

Just starting to wonder if normal 4x5 camera can be used as a poor man's enlarger ? Any thoughts ?

How hard was it to align the head?

They have already released an enlarger, I bought it this year, along with the 5x4 Camera! Is this a new version?

i wonder what the price will be. I am really interested in this one

Does anyone sell this in America?

Roger, perhaps you can answer my questions about this enlarger as I am not getting any reply to my e mails from intrepid. How powerful is the light unit, i.e. can you realistically produce prints greater than 10x8 or is that the limit of it's power? Also what lens should I use for printing from 6x9 negatives as watching Intrepid's video they suggest 80mm for 120 film but I would think this a bit small for 6x9 negs. Have really binge watched your videos nice to see somebody so enthusiastic about film.

Hi great video What kind tripod you have please thanks

I came across your video as I've been researching entry level enlargers that take up minimal space. May I be nosey and ask what tripod you are using as I would probably get a tripod with a horizontal arm rather than a copy stand (space issue again)?