List Camera Manufacturers That Also Made Enlarging Lenses

[xkaes]

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.

 

[Hilo]

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?

 

[Dustin McAmera]

I found this:

Lot 115 - Three Rare Olympus Enlarging and Copy

Lot 115 - Three Rare Olympus Enlarging and Copy - Estimate 50-70 GBP

www.chiswickauctions.co.uk

An older generation, 50 and 75mm, both c zuiko (does that mean a triplet?)

 

[xkaes]

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.