Choosing an appropriate enlarger lens

[Hilo]

That's great, thanks for the tip. I'd like to check them out. Are you in France as well ?

No, I am in The Netherlands

 

[thepond]

The issue is negative size, column height, and desired print size.

Its NICE to use the larger then "standard" format length enlarger lens. But there are draw backs in magnification.

 

[mshchem]

The issue is negative size, column height, and desired print size.

Its NICE to use the larger then "standard" format length enlarger lens. But there are draw backs in magnification.

Hey, welcome to Photrio!!!

 

[eli griggs]

Most studio , military and photo-league darkrooms I worked in used the average 50mm lens for 35mm and 75mm for 6x6, and so have I continued to do so, though ultimately, I'd prefer the El Nikor 63mm for 35mm.

I have a 25mm lens for 16mm negatives, and I've used 75mm at times for 35mm printmaking, from which I learned the valuable lesson, that some photographers of smaller medium format films would take their intense desire to use the 75mm enlarger you're currently printing on.

This happened to me one day, after a league photographer I knew to be a good printmaker and had a conniption because I was using the 75 mm lenses enlarge I pretty much always did, for my prints.

The several other 75mm equiped enlarger were already engaged, and he just wouldn't understand I was there, on that enlarger for a long printing session, it still makes me chuckle, the public funk he went into.

I also remember another printer, using a 75mm enlarger, getting disgusted by his moanings and giving up her printing station just because she could not enjoy her printing because of his behavior.

For 4"x5" I have other, longer lenses, but I've yet to get a 5"x7" capable lens for my 5"x7" enlarger and future negatives from a pinhole camera.

It sounds, in part, that 80mm ~ 6x6cm pairings is more of a European standard, but am I wrong?

 

[thepond]

Most studio , military and photo-league darkrooms I worked in used the average 50mm lens for 35mm and 75mm for 6x6, and so have I continued to do so, though ultimately, I'd prefer the El Nikor 63mm for 35mm.

I have a 25mm lens for 16mm negatives, and I've used 75mm at times for 35mm printmaking, from which I learned the valuable lesson, that some photographers of smaller medium format films would take their intense desire to use the 75mm enlarger you're currently printing on.

This happened to me one day, after a league photographer I knew to be a good printmaker and had a conniption because I was using the 75 mm lenses enlarge I pretty much always did, for my prints.

The several other 75mm equiped enlarger were already engaged, and he just wouldn't understand I was there, on that enlarger for a long printing session, it still makes me chuckle, the public funk he went into.

I also remember another printer, using a 75mm enlarger, getting disgusted by his moanings and giving up her printing station just because she could not enjoy her printing because of his behavior.

For 4"x5" I have other, longer lenses, but I've yet to get a 5"x7" capable lens for my 5"x7" enlarger and future negatives from a pinhole camera.

It sounds, in part, that 80mm ~ 6x6cm pairings is more of a European standard, but am I wrong?

I think its more about an apparent, that i never thought of until now size relationship..

for the most part, there seems to be a set 20-25mm change between each format size in the US when it comes to our prefered lens length. 25, 50,75,90,