Enlarger Lens Advise Needed

[Peter De Smidt]

I have one of the Enlarging Ektanon's in a metal Elwood board, which I can't remove it from. What kind of enlarger is it?

[smithdoor]

I hope your wife is taking now
For the Enlarger Lens type print shop equipment shops they some time have a lens from a Process or copying camera I have one up to 19" (482 mm)
Some day I plan to build one

Good luck
Dave

I can get a 240/5.6 Rodagon at a pretty decent price but I wasn't sure that would work. As for enlargements I doubt I will be exceeding 16x20 for a bit but I may change my mind and want to go larger later on. I would prefer paying once for something that will work for me going forward.

I also find some 300mm lenses with an f9 maximum aperture. That seems pretty dim to me but I really don't know much about this, as you can obviously tell.

Finally, thank you very much for the link to other references here on the forum. My search skills are pretty limited.

[Peter De Smidt]

A 240mm Rodagon should be fine, btw.

[AuditorOne]

A 240mm Rodagon should be fine, btw.

Well, I have a 240/5.6 APO Rodagon on the way from Adorama.

Thank you everyone for your kind patience with me and your thoughts. Hope you are all enjoying your weekends.

Dan

[Bob Salomon]

Well, I have a 240/5.6 APO Rodagon on the way from Adorama.

Thank you everyone for your kind patience with me and your thoughts. Hope you are all enjoying your weekends.

Dan

The longest Apo Rodagon enlarging lens made by Rodenstock was the 150mm. Apo Rodagon lenses longer then 150mm are process lenses and not enlarging lenses.

[jeroldharter]

I can get a 240/5.6 Rodagon at a pretty decent price but I wasn't sure that would work...

Not sure you could improve on that lens.

[AuditorOne]

The longest Apo Rodagon enlarging lens made by Rodenstock was the 150mm. Apo Rodagon lenses longer then 150mm are process lenses and not enlarging lenses.

Thanks for the heads up. It was advertised by Adorama as an enlarger lens and it was listed as a Rodenstock 240 5.6 Apo Rodagon Lens. I'll have to see how it works out when it gets here. If it is a process lens what does that mean for the enlargements? If it turns out that it will not work out as well as I need then Adorama is actually pretty good about accepting returns.

[jeroldharter]

How did it work out and what lens did you get?

[AuditorOne]

The Rodagon has arrived but I am still cleaning out the darkroom to find space for this enlarger, it is BIG! Good things take time, particularly in my house.

It is a Rodenstock Rodagon 240 5.6. Although it was labeled by Adorama as an APO lens I do not see that anywhere on the lens itself. It is certainly an enlarger lens since it has the illumination for the aperture stops. It does have a scratch on the front glass so I hope that does not effect the output. Except for the scratch it looks like it is brand new.

As soon as locate a mounting ring for it I will hook it up to my Beseler 45 to give it a test run. Hopefully I will be able to get to that this week. I do have some 4x5 negs I need to print so we'll see.

[rjmeyer314]

I have an 8x10 Elwood. When I got the enlarger it came with a 10" Enlarging Ektanon. I used that for severaL years, but wasn't happy with the sharpness of the prints. Then I used a 210mm Fax Nikkor for a while. That covered 8x10, and had good sharpness. Right now I'm using a 180mm Repromaster. It also covers, and is just as sharp as the Fax Nikkor. Because of the short focal length I can get much bigger enllargements on the baseboard. At other times I've tried 300mm and 360mm Schneider Componons. I gave up on them because I copuldn't get very big enlargements.