Ha, the Daylab queen..... :queen: How come I feel like this most of the time, then? :Joker:
Well, I looked at this item, and looks like you're winning so far, Corry. Whether or not that's a good thing will be decided by you.
I've never heard of this particular model. I'm sorry. I scooted over to the Daylab Corp site just to be sure I wasn't missing something new. But I think more than likely it's an older model. It appears to have the same type color head and controls that mine does, so I think it's fundamentally the same thing, with one major difference. Did you notice how the seller asks if you've "ever wanted to print your own 4x6 or 8x10 prints"? This is medium and large format work. And it still looks like a slide printer to me - meaning, you can make these size prints from slides or transparencies (negatives) that are
medium format. Do you have a medium format camera? (Even the Holga would do.)
I have a Daylab 35 Plus with three bases: the 3.25x4.25 (for 669 film), the SX-70 base (for Time Zero film) and a "faux" medium format base - meaning, it's a base that will accept a MF sheet film holder, so I can get prints
from 35mm format as large as 4 x 5, using various Polaroid sheet films. But the sheet film
holder itself is a separately sold item, my model is the Polaroid 545i.
Daylab makes a separate HEAD (not base) that will take 120 format, but to my knowledge it's just called the Daylab 120. However, it sounds like what you're bidding on is an old 120 head, possibly called the 300 back then (who knows why). If you can pick it up for fifty bucks and it works, then you can use your Holga negatives in it to make prints.
Here comes the bad news: this
ebay seller doesn't appear to be including a film holder or any Polaroid film with this printer. When you put your slide or transparency into these slide printers, you are exposing your image onto Polaroid film to get a Polaroid print. Last time I looked, a regular box of a Polacolor ER film in 4x5 size was about $60 - for 20 images. :shock: I can't even tell you how much the 8x10 film is. But it ain't cheap!!
Now, it
could be this 300 model has a built-in sheet film holder, so you don't need to purchase it separately, like I did with my model. But if I were you, before this deal ends, get online and find out as much as you can about how it works and what it takes to actually get prints made from it.
Hopefully I am not so wrong in my guessing here that I've messed you up too badly! If I knew more I could be more definite about it, but again, I am not familiar with the 300.
Heh heh...maybe I'll get lucky and either someone else bids or that it's different from what you think! I'll know better next time and come to Aunty Terri and the gang first!
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