is this a camera or enlager lense

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Can anyone tell me if this is an enlarger or a camera lense?
 
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I was a little unsure because it says:

Mit dem Objektiv kann man hervorragende Makroaufnahmen, mit bestechender Schärfe und Brillianz machen. Mittels Adapter lässt sich das Objektiv an Analog sowohl auch an Digitalkameras adaptieren.
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wich translates to:

With this lense you can make brilliant macro photos, with impressive sharpness and brilliance. Using an adapter you can mount the lense to anlog and digitial cameras.
 

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Sure. It's a standard Leica-thread screw mount. Those lenses--that mounting--had adapters for all kinds of other uses. Exactly as die Beschreibung given there, I often used a 105 Nikkor on a Pentax 6x7 for "macro" work. A Leica to Pentax Screw thread adapter, then a Pentax screw thread to Pentax 6x7. Not the most conventient set up, but workable. "Leica" adapters have long been available, for exampke, for Canon, Nikon, Practika/Pentas screw. I am pretty certain some of the folks in Russia and Ukraine selling equipment could fix you up quite easily.
The operative word, is MaKro. Such a lash up will not focus to infinity.

John, Mount Vernon, Virginia USA
 

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The description of EL Nikkor denotes that it is an enlarging lens.

The EL as I understand it stands for:- Enlarging Lens.

The EL Nikkors were, and still are, very good enlarging lenses.

The three most known brands of enlarging lenses I know of are those made by Schneider Kreuznach, Rodenstock and Nikon. Less well known brands are generally as good or close to these three, Minolta comes to mind as a brand of lens, especially in the 35mm format.

The most important requirement about an enlarging lens I would purchase, is that it has 6 elements. Enlarging lenses with 4 elements are made to a lower cost base and were generally marketed to the student market.

For personal use and assuming you are after a highish quality output I would not look at a 4 element enlarging lens.

When you look at larger than 35mm format enlarging lenses, most are built to a high standard.

Meopta branded enlargers had their own set of enlarging lenses. In the medium format quite a few of them were of a very high standard. As 6x9 was a popular enlarger for that company there may be quite a few of those lenses for that format in your part of the world for sale. The Meopta enlarging lens brand name escapes me at the moment, perhaps someone else could chip in here.

Mick.
 

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Vergrösserungsobjektiv = Enlarger+lens

Note the use of "objektiv" which is similar to the French "objectif" to mean "the whole thing you put on your camera," which is slightly different from "lentille" (lens) which refers to the individual elements themselves.
 

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Mick Fagan said:
The Meopta enlarging lens brand name escapes me at the moment, perhaps someone else could chip in here.
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Myoptar? Sorry couldn't resist.

6 elements: Meogon
4 elements: Anaret

Lee
 

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I've compared an Anaret-S 80mm with a EL-Nikkor 80mm, and kept the Anaret - it was visibly sharper in the corners of 645 negatives enlarged to 8x10"!

For macro I use one of those "multiple crossovers" - an Industar 90-U enlarger lens (75mm), crossover to M42, M42 bellows, crossover to PK, and a Pentax MZ-5n.
 

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On the other hand Meopta is a large manufacturer of optics, so it is difficult to see why they should need to import German optics - they should be perfectly capable of making excellent lenses themselves! They have been making enlarger lenses since 1933, too...
 

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I think Meopta outsourced some products in recent years because Meopta basicly stopped making photographic equipment, they are more into scopes and stuff and maybe they didn't want to start up a whole new line for a declining market like enlarger lenses, instead they just rebranded the Schneider lenses as their own.
 

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That could well be so.

But my Anaret-S'es (one 50mm, one 80mm) aren't recent, I bought them both in 1979 - new.
 

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It's the same in swedish (objektiv and lins). It irritates me when a swedish speaking person say "lins" instead of "objektiv".
 

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Ole said:
That could well be so.

But my Anaret-S'es (one 50mm, one 80mm) aren't recent, I bought them both in 1979 - new.
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Meopta stopped making camera's at around 1970 because they had to make optics for weapons for the russians, this may be why they outsourced it.
 
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