Originally Posted by
Greg
Initially used an Omega D2V, but soon found that the alignment of the negative carrier, lens, and baseboard left much to be desired when moving the enlarger head up and down. Fortunately we were able to get a 4x5 Durst Laborator Ce 1000 which had excellent alignment characteristics. Of all the lenses we tried, an older all metal (135mm or 150mm can't remember which) El-Nikkor came out on top, all thought just barely. But then we were able to borrow a 120mm f/6.3 Macro Nikkor off a Nikon Multiphot and it blew out all of the "enlarging" lenses. Vaguely remember having to reverse the 120mm lens on the enlarger to match its configuration when used on the Multiphot.
**Biggest thing that we learned at the time was never to assume that all the components of an enlarger are in alignment, even when new out of the box.**
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