Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/09/27

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Subject: Re: Off topic:help on enlarger
From: Eric Welch <ewelch@ponyexpress.net>
Date: Sat, 27 Sep 1997 22:56:42 -0500

At 03:45 PM 9/27/97 -0400, you wrote:
>Eric mentioned comparing his Focotar with lenses in rental darkrooms.  I
>can recall bringing my APO-Rodagon into darkroom courses to use in their
>enlargers.  The results were terrible, much worse than in my own darkroom.
>I concluded that the fault lay with the terrible condition of the school
>enlargers (misalignment etc.), rather than the lenses.  Perhaps Eric's
>results were due to similar causes.

Nope, these were big heavy duty 4x5 enlargers that were in new-like
condition. Maybe the condensers weren't optimized for 35mm lenses, but I
thought I got good stuff. Even using Leica Focomat IC enlargers in
journalism school I thought I was getting good stuff. But then I owned my
own V35 and found out just how good it was. It's amazing.

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Eric Welch
St. Joseph, MO

Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.