What did you do with your high end enlarging lenses?

[Rob-F]

Yep. I guess most of us get back to film after a fling with digital. I used my 50mm Schneider Componon yesterday to print pictures of steam locomotives I shot with my M7 last summer. I shot them on one of my last rolls of Plus-X. They look great enlarged to 8 X 14. I wish Kodak had not discontinued Plus-X. One of these days, Kodak will wish it, too.

Soon I will use my 80mm Componon to print some rollfilm shots of the same subject.

Welcome back to film, Vick.

 

[giellaleafapmu]

Mostly for macro plus...I never stopped wet printing so most of the time they are still there where they are supposed to be: on the enlarger!

GLF

 

[Fuchs]

mine -a focotar 40- seats sadly unused on its Leitz V35AF carrier. I've turned to some sort of hybrid process, but I'm reconsidering seriously to go back to wet printing.

 

[Haigh]

I use them, still.

 

[cameraman555]

Mine are in a polythene bag in my box room. A Nikkor 50 2.8, an 80mm 5.6 Rodagon and curiously a few Schneider lenses that I bought second hand after my local Photo shop withdrew its KIS photo processing operation. I bought the lenses for all of the film formats and amongst them was one particular lens that is a 60mm f8 as best I recall. That lens is the best lens that I have ever come across; at about 30 inches lens to baseboard distance the grain is still pin sharp. Alas I didn't use it because a variable aperture is more convenient, and I was doing 6cm x 6cm at the time and I don't have a darkroom in my current home.

 

[europanorama]

VNEX a new adapter

VNEX a new adapter

Vnex is a new multipurpose adapter for old lenses on nex, maybe other cams. similar to zoerk. check google. very clever and not so expensive.

 

[68degrees]

As a followup, I now have a working darkroom. The "better" lenses are being used as enlarger lenses. I found crud haze and junk in some of the lenses, and they are now loupes. A 135mm lens is a wonderful loupe, because of its long focal distance.

how many power is it? 4x?

 

[Avotius]

I used to use a LTM red scale elmar 5 cm for enlarging. Kept it after I sold my enlarger, its too fine a lens to give up.