Kodak 50mm Enlarging Ektar image quality..

[Robbie Bedell]

Oh Patrick do not tempt me! I already have too many fine enlarging lenses. BUT, I may get one just the same as you say they are not that much. I am eying one now but I may wait for a less expensive one. I am in no rush...

I worked once was a printer in a lab and I used the Ilford meter all the time and it worked great. Then I bought one a while back and I never could get it to work correctly. I think there was something wrong with it. still have it in a drawer somewhere...Maybe I will look around for another....Thank you Patrick!

 

[Patrick Robert James]

Robbie, I started out using Ralph Lambrecht's chart for the IM-10, but since I split print (blue/green) I had to adapt it. I found the easiest way was to set the meter that equates to a known time and adjust the aperture with the green filter in place until the meter zeros, then take a second reading for the blue with the green filter still in place to get the time for the blue exposure. If you use regular filters, the chart works well in my experience. When I get more info accumulated about the method I use I will probably pass it on.

Anyway, I use the Neonon since I can de-click the aperture ring which makes the process easier of course. If you want to do something similar, Componon-S and Minoltas also de-click if you already have one.

 

[jjphoto]

There's a thread on APUG somewhere re stating other sources of Neonon lenses, we have to take their word for it, I've only seen and bought - actually I think mine came with a Durst enlarger and both are the Pentax ones. As far as I can recall Pentax made the optics and perhaps not the barrels.

The BJP was once a weekly magazine, I've only a few left with relevant articles or the odd special editions. The yearly Annuals wouldn't have that sort of information, unlike the 1963 and earlier BJP Almanacs which list the major new products of the preceding year.

Ian

Thanks Ian

 

[Jayd]

Back in the 1940s through maybe 70s Ektars were considered a premium lens, If you bough a Graflex you wanted a Kodak lens, I expect many were german made.
The wollensaks I have used are of good quality as well.

 

[jjphoto]

... I expect many were german made...

Why? Their Enlarging Ektars were mostly made in the US (but slso in the UK to a lesser extent).