List Camera Manufacturers That Also Made Enlarging Lenses

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As,mentioned, the instruction sheet mentions an exposure unit for color prints that attaches to the enlarger. Either Olympus made an enlarger or an enlarger accessory -- or planned to.
 

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As,mentioned, the instruction sheet mentions an exposure unit for color prints that attaches to the enlarger. Either Olympus made an enlarger or an enlarger accessory -- or planned to.

That's a good point. My main cameras since the end of the 70ties are the Olympus Pen FT, the OM-1 and the OM4-Ti. And they still are.

I met with their designer, who I still admire a lot, in Tokyo in 1999. A very kind man. You can imagine I have always had a lot of interest in anything to do with the Pen FT and the OM cameras. However, I never came across an enlarger made by Olympus.

Anyone who has?
 

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Those chrome lenses are undoubtedly enlarging lenses -- even if Olympus never made an enlarger. The "C" is somewhat confusing, though. They look like Minolta E lenses from the 1960's, and if they have 39mm threads it would confirm them as enlarging lenses.

They are probably triplets, but might have four elements.

Thanks for posting this.
 
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