Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/01/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Just as camera lenses make poor enlarging lenses, enlarging lenses make poor camera lenses UNLESS you are photographing a flat field. Flat to flat. Like in an enlarger. Flat neg to flat paper. Use the enlarging lens to copy photographs, artwork, documents, etc. It's much better than a camera lens for this purpose. But not for 3-D subjects. Leitz originally used camera lenses on their enlargers. But soon discovered that lenses made for flat field work would be much better. So they designed enlarging lenses for that purpose. As did the rest of the industry. That's why there are enlarger/copy lenses, and there are camera lenses. I'm not saying that the resulting photographs will be horrible or even unusable. They will indeed be usable and possibly quite good. I'm saying that lenses were designed for a specific purpose and work BEST when used for that purpose. Jim At 09:26 AM 1/22/98 +0000, you wrote: >>How can a lens that is designed to cover a 24x36mm format possibly cover that >format when it is tilted and swung? >Charlie > >Charlie, please note note that I said 135/150 enlarging lens, that=B4s a >lens designed to cover 4x5", there is more than needed coverage. > > >To Eric: > I dont know who sell Hama in US but their fax number is 502-274/279/290 >( Germany) the Shift bellows is part number 32299-9. I can send yoy a >Jpeg picture of the bellows, let me know in case you are interested >Regards >Jose Luis >=20