[rollei_list] Re: OT: Schneider enlarger lenses
- From: Marc James Small <marcsmall@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2007 00:27:03 -0400
At 05:29 PM 6/2/2007, ERoustom wrote:
>Hello all,
>
>I just bought an old Durst 606 enlarger from an even older gentleman.
>It came with two Scneider-Kreuznach lenses a 4.5 50 and a 4.5 75.
>These seem to be in excellent condition. This is the same company
>that made the S-Xenar for my Rollei 35 (I assume). Are these enlarger
>lenses valuable, and they don't seem to be coated - am I correct in
>thinking that enlarger lenses don't get coated?
Elias
As others have pointed out, this is the very same
Joseph Schneider Kreuznach firm which produced
the Xenar and Xenotar lenses used on Rolleiflex
cameras and, for that matter, on the camera from
which the Hasselblad was derived.
There are three broad families of JSK enlarging
lenses. The Componar and Componon designs go
back to the Prewar years and production was
coated after around 1950, as JSK was afforded
access to the Zeiss vacuum-coating technology in
return for their supply of lenses for Zeiss Ikon
folders such as the Super Ikonta range. In the
1980's, JSK introduced a range of APO enlarging
lenses, as well, though the term is a word of art
and these lenses are not actually of an apochromatic design.
There have been three principal manufacturers of
quality enlarging lenses since the end of World
War II, and these are Schneider, Rodenstock, and
Nikon. Their better products are all competitive
and the prices tend to be quite close. I happen
to use Rodenstock APO lenses for my 35mm and MF
work, but there is nothing lacking in the Schneider lenses.
Darkroom gear is all available at quite low rates
at present, and I'd probably upgrade your Durst
to some APO lenses, but these JSK lenses will not
let you down. Even the Componars are decent, and the Componons are quite good.
Marc
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