Re: [Leica] Enlarging lens

["Joe Stephenson" <joeleica@flash.net>]

I'm surprised that no one has mentioned the 50mm APO Rodenstock enlarging
lens. It is the best enlarging lenses I've used and it cost only $360.00,
used. It produces great images, and is at a level of quality that would be
difficult to significantly surpass at any price.
SincStephensonerely,
Joe
- -----Original Message-----
From: Mark Rabiner <mrabiner@concentric.net>
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Date: Sunday, January 31, 1999 11:31 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Enlarging lens


>snip
>> Basically, I agree with Marc, but there is one exception I know of. Nikon
>> made an Apo-Nikkor enlarging lens of 105mm (not medium format; only
>> intended to cover 35mm) that outperformed pretty much everything else.
The
>> price, unfortunately, reflected this - about $1200 in the early 70's,
when
>> I bought my last new M4 for around $400Cdn. I've seen about 3 for sale
over
>> the years, generally staying around $1000 to $1500 used.
>>
>>    *            Henning J. Wulff
>snip
>I've used the 105 in a rental lab over the years and talking with those
>people and checking it out it cost a good deal more than the 80 or 135
>or even 135 which I own but not THAT much more. I think you can now get
>the 105's for less that 400 bucks. I'm sure this lens is a level up from
>the other Nikkors' and would be a worthy competitor to the Focatar's and
>Schneider but I'm hoping these German lenses might have something else
>to offer. (better)
>But the 105 I am thinking of covers 6 by 9 and I think that is the other
>lens. I don't think there would or could be a 105 that would only cover
>35mm. But I'd love to know that I'm wrong because stranger things than
>that have happened to me this week already.
>Mark Rabiner
>