Mar 9, 2025 · The demand for enlarging lenses appears to be waning now, and top quality ones are reasonably affordable on the used market. Whereas a cheap enlarging lens will just waste …

Feb 9, 2005 · Tried this on the NIKON forum, suggested large formet forum; here goes I have an EL-NIKKOR 135 f5.6 enlarging lens of no great age. This has a 50mm thread at the back for …

Apr 24, 2018 · I've been using Nikon enlarging lenses and they've seemed adequate, but lately I've been noticing prints that seem much sharper than what I've been getting. Aside from the …

Aug 20, 2002 · There are many quality 6/4 enlarging lenses: Schneider Componon and Componon-S, Rodenstock Rodagon, the Durst Componons and Vivitar VHE lenses (both …

Jul 3, 2001 · In looking for an 80mm enlarging lens, I see used Schneider Componon S lenses in both f/4 and f/5.6. I thought the older Componons (pre "S") had a max aperture of 5.6 which …

Oct 31, 2003 · Does anyone with experience of enlarging black and white 8x10 negatives feel that the quality gain is signifcant over enlarging from the 4x5 format ? I know that many people …

May 6, 2004 · Dear forum users, What is the best lens to enlarge 6x6 films? Dichroic color enlarger (also another condensers one), XXL column, VC paper. Magnification between 4x …

Sep 28, 2018 · As others have noted, it is helpful to reduce the number of variables - use the same f/stop on the enlarging lens and adjust exposure only by changing time, use the same …

May 2, 2009 · Enlarging lenses are dirt cheap these days and optically almost identical to specialist bellows macro lenses. Maybe we shouldn't make this fact too well-known, otherwise …

Nov 13, 2022 · Only about 50 years too late to market! FWIW, many years ago I built a simple lensed-photodiode sensor that sat beside the enlarging lens to read the reflected light off the …