Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/01/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 12:09 AM 1/26/98 -0500, you wrote: >Eric, >I guess you would know... I had heard that the reason there is a 39mm >"standard" for enlarging lenses was that early on Leitz made their enlargers >so that you could use the camera lens as an enlarger lens. Since some of Actually, you can take apart the Dual Range Summicron to use it as an enlarging lens, so I'm told. The idea was that the aberrations would compensate for what they did to the film when the light went the other way. Hmmm....some saleman must have been hitting the scotch when he said that one. >What type of lens is the Focotar? Is it symetrical, in that the elements in >the front mirror those at the back? No, it's (the current 40mm 2.8) optimized for enlarging. And the prvious 50mm focotars are too. The Focotar II is particularly good, so I'm told. ========== Eric Welch St. Joseph, MO http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch Politics: Poli (many) - tics (blood sucking parasites)