The 55-AE electronic dodging enlarger is designed for black and white aerial applications, specifically enlargements of 5"x5" (12.7x12.7cm) and 70mm negatives in roll forms.

There is no need for disappointing enlargements from aerial negatives any longer. When important detail is lost in shadows or washed-out highlights, the limits of photographic or digital scanning techniques have been exceeded; even a skilled photographer is limited by dodging and burning-in techniques, and digital scanning only modify (filter) an image as a whole. But the Egoltronics 55AE Scanning Enlarger system, using incremental electronic dodging, can produce uniform prints which can reveal detail otherwise lost in shadow and highlight areas, which can be dodged independently and incrementally.

With the 55AE, Egoltronics offers an innovative, comprehensive solution to contrast control problems through the use of automatic incremental dodging on a spot-by-spot basis. The 55AE'S cathode ray tube light source, operating under computerized electronic control, continuously varies the local illumination of the negative to optimize the exposure of each small area of the print. The process may be totally automated or the photographic skills of the operator may be used manually to further refine the result.

The Multidodge ll electronic control system automatically evaluates the negative prior to exposure and applies the required control to automatically correct exposure and doding levels, assuring consistent and reliable results. The Multidodge System, with its patented Prescan and combination of intensity and velocity modulation controlling the scanning light source, is installed in a variety of photographic devices. The Multidodge 11,with its greater brightness range, program memory storage and prompting menu system, is a second generation improvement over the original Multidodge.

The combination if intensity modulation (IM) and velocity modulation (VM) results in shorter exposure times, an extended dodging range and 2.4 density units in each of four brightness levels (brightness range of 250:1). Variable Ratio Dodging permits the operator to select from IM/VM dodging control to VM only.

The menu-driven keypad interface permits the user to establish and store exposure and dodging setting for a wide variety of photographic materials and imagery. Keypad entry is operator friendly, menu-driven, and easy to understand and operate.

Enhanced contrast control and dodging are achieved by rigorous suppression of electrical and magnetic interference and the reduction of flare and stray light in the printer cabinet, optics, and the light source (CRT).

Small area dodging is improved by the use of adjustable scanning spot sizes. Exposure efficiency is maintained by increased CRT brightness combined with a multiple sweep exposure.