Leica thread mounts as enlarger lens?

[kajabbi]

In my "Darkroom Days", I used Kodak Ektars(50 & 75MM) for most enlergements. I did, however, experiment with 50MM Elmars(3.5 and later2.8). I found them to be as good as the 50MM Ektar tthru F8. At 11 however they seemed to fall short. I was, at that time, limited to 16X20 prints and up to that size, the Elmars were fine. Leitz, in their pamplets, recommended using the early summicrons but I never cound find a bayonet lens holder for my Omega enlarger.

 

[Nick R.]

There are early LTM summicrons. However, unless you're going to have them do double duty, they're pretty pricey to buy for enlarging use only.

 

[dr.kollig]

I used an old 90 Elmar for 6*6, but the image circle is to small. The prints seemed to be sharper when with the NIkkor 75/4.0 on an old Durst enlarger. Now using an Klatt autofocus from 1950/60 I can only use the enclosed Schneider Componons.

Wolfram