De Vere 705s

[Erik Larsen]

Do you have a 135mm or 150 mm lens for the 4x5 size? An 80mm lens for the 6x6? Might make all the difference?

[John Layton]

...or a 120mm WA Rodagon - great lens!

[Mark Kononczuk]

I mounted an 80mm and a 50mm lenses and they don't work. I think this is because it is a 5x7 enlarger with huge condensor lenses. Maybe i need to change them for smaller ones?

[Tin Can]

Mount any 150mm LF lens and try that

Doesn't have to be an enlarger lens, but must be for 4X5

[interneg]

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There's your answer - you need the appropriate condensers, appropriate lens boards (with 5x7's, usually most 80mm+ lenses can go on the flat board - depends on how well the bellows compress - just because the 507 was the successor of the 705/75 doesn't mean that anything is directly comparable - the principle of the drive system isn't that different, but they are radically different machines) and you'll be fine. This is not complicated. Odyssey De Vere might have some things like condensers (the 705 lasted beyond the introduction of the 504 - the 507 was a later introduction) - the flat lens panel is a bakelite slab like most of De Vere's LF cameras and older 8x10 enlargers - the lens turret (which is what yours looks like) lensmounts aren't going to be complicated either.