What did you do with your high end enlarging lenses?

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.
 
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
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
Vickko said:
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.
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how many power is it? 4x?
 
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.
 
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