This is a workhorse for advanced amateurs and professionals. They are a manufacturer of industrial and photographic optics. The rodagonwa lenses are for shorter focal lengths with a larger image angle. Rodenstock 105mm f4 aporodagon n enlarging lens 452342.
Essilor vs zeiss vs rodenstock, what wouold be the best to go with. I picked up very cheap 25mm enlarging lens used for 16mm negatives. Kg 44 lenses for enlarging, ccd photos and video rogonar the rogonar forms a solid base for the first steps in the amateurs home lab. I find the weird old ones a bit more interesting to play with than good lenses like schneider componons or rodagons which work exceedingly well for products or macro. The digital lens consultant from rodenstock determines your personal viewing habits and requirements.
Using an eightelement optical design, this apochromatically corrected lens fully eliminates color fringing and spherical. Rodenstockschneider lens infoexperience with view cameras. Bottom line, its fair to say that elnikkor lenses are a great budget choice for uv photography. The apo enlarging lenses were said to have greater sharpness and contrast. Id also be interested in how much difference there would be between a visibly good example and a poorer example. Rodenstock is the cheapest and zeiss most exspensive. Since i will be shooting a relatively small format, lens performance will be vital to me. This rodenstock 150mm rodagon enlarging lens for upto 4 x 5 negatives, is known as the universal workhorse. Rodenstock enlarger lenses comprise of 3, 4, 6 and 8 elements, some of which are apochromatically corrected. It is next to impossible, though, to show this in scanned images. The lens has excellent reproduction parameters on the entire zoom range. Quality levels are the same as schneider but the range is wider. Rodenstock are one of the worlds foremost manufacturers of photographic large format and enlarging lenses.
Rodenstock rodagon enlarging lens with reverse adapter for m39 leica mount for macro photography, rodenstock rodagon 50mm f2. The schneider xenon 28mm f2 lens is operating at an effective f10 when setup with extension and wideopen. This has nothing to do with mtf curves, but i have see a lot of lens seperation in rodenstock lenses that are a few years old, including a 5mm camera lens and two enlarging lenses i own personally. I have quite a few enlarging lenses and my best performing lenses are probably the rodenstock aporodagonn 480, aporodagonn 475 and schneider apocomponon hm 4. Rogonar budget entry level, 3 elements but same high quality glass. There are three major companies that are currently making enlarger lenses. Over the last couple years, i have performed a moderate amount of. Response to schneider vs rodenstock no its not boring.
They sell the most optical lenses including progressives and essilor is nothing comparing to them. Is it true that in europe and asia rodenstock and zeis are the two major optical players. Maybe people have cottoned on to using them as macro lenses. The elnikkor 80 also displays very little focus shift, and can be had for. The rodenstock rogonar is a budget line 4element lens, not as good as the premium 6element rodenstock rodagon line, or 6 element enlarger lenses from. This comparison was made to find out which lenses perform best at this magnification. Rodenstock s 6element, 4group range of enlarger lenses carry very even field illumination, and can be used as oncamera macro lenses in addition to normal enlarging lenses. The latest lenses from schneider to cover the ultra large formats are great if youre into ulf. Rodenstock enlarger lens vs canon 100mm macro vs canon 28. Id be interested in seeing how cheaper lenses such as meopta compare with the likes of rodenstock, schneider, nikkor etc. This test of 7 enlarging lenses, is a third part of a 4 part test.
And the the latest super wide angles from rodenstock and schneider are really tempting. The rodagon offers brilliant reproduction over a wide range of enlargement ratios. The second is the aposironar digital hr and the last is the apo macro sironar digit al. Optimum working apertures are 2 stops below maximum aperture. In addition, the photographer i share my studio with has been doing a lot of testing with enlarger lenses adapted to his alpa xy technical camera with a phase iq180. For example the 35mm apo digitar lens has become a 36mm apo switar and has a larger diameter filter thread as this has allowed for a built in lens hood. Schneider does seem to have been much more heavily involved in developing newer designslenses than rodenstock in recent years. I am now at a stage of choosing lenses and have been looking for the ultim ate lenses. Im looking at getting an 80mm for larger enlargements.
Because macro lens testing is performed at various magnifications for me at least, and commercially available test patterns are made to. Ill try the a7r4 pixel shifting to improve the info out of films like tmax 100 and apx 25. Rodenstock darkroom photo enlarging lenses for sale ebay. This technique allows an enlarging lens to be used just like any normal lens for all kinds of photography, not just macro. It is therefore eminently suitable for section enlargements on units with short columns. The rodenstock 105mm apochromatically corrected lens from the aporodagonn series sets new standards for the most stringent demands of professional enlarging techniques the advantages are clearly visible in both color and black and white enlargements.
Another enlarging lens that i picked up is the rodenstock rogonarsc 50mm f2. Its bigger and better brother the elnikkor 50mm f2. The rodagonwa has a shorter focal length and a large angle of view and achieves a 70% larger projection area than conventional enlarging lenses with standard focal lengths. This test of 7 enlarging lenses, is a third part of a 4 part test comparing 33 objectives and lenses at 4x magnification. It is very confusing and there is little useful information on them. There is almost no visible difference between the old rodenstock and schneider enlarging lenses and the newer digitars of comparable focal lengths. Clumsy wall or floor projections can so be avoided. Enlarging lens filter threads, used eg for reversing. Reverse adapters for enlarging lenses custom photo tools. Tutorial for using enlarger lenses in macro photography and image stacking part 2. Best results in photomacrography can be expected with lenses specifically designed for this application. I dont have much to offer but what i have is available for testing, not to destruction of course richard. However, these lenses are expensive, and almost all of them are no.
I compared 4 or 5 premium enlarging lenses from nikon, leica, rodenstock, schneider, etc. This lens is already a standard feature of many lowprice enlarging units. Lens tests for various macro lenses, bellows lenses, microscope objectives, and enlarging lenses. The aporodagond is a specialist ultra lens for use in slide duplication and making internegatives. As with schneider the rodenstock enlarging lenses fall into different named categories. The information in these tables is verified or referenced whenever possible.
Since i own all the lenses the test, i not promoting any one lens, a sponsor, or one brand. The i realized i could use my sony a 100m macro as well. Get the best deals on schneider darkroom photo enlarging lenses when you shop the largest online selection at. Schneider componon 428 vs canon mpe 65 macro lens the canon mpe 65 was tested at f3. With the rodenstock focusmount, both lenses can be fitted to cameras without bellows a feature which makes large format photography mobile. The darkroomgetting the most from enlarger lenses shutterbug. Rodenstocks 6element, 4group range of enlarger lenses carry very even field illumination, and can be used as oncamera macro lenses in addition to normal enlarging lenses. Looking at rodenstock s lens data sheets the two industrial versions look like they have a similar optical design with the two enlarger lenses being different.
Rodenstock and schneider kreuznach are two of them. Rodenstock s model, called rodagong, is probably the most expensive. I have a m42 macro bellows, to attach my enlarging lenses, a schneider componons 50mm f2. The rodenstock rogonar is a budget line 4element lens, not as good as the premium 6element rodenstock rodagon line, or 6 element enlarger lenses from other manufacturers. The 6 element schneider 50mm componon s is a one of the better enlarger lenses. The hr digarons lenses provide extremely high resolution already from open aperture, perfectly corrected image curvature and a correction for the thickness of the sensors protective glass. The test results are only being posted to share this information. The difference in sharpness with larger aperture lenses like the xenon will really be easily apparent at a 100% view when compared to slower lenses like the schneider 45mm apocomponon at an effective f22. Anyway i am now looking at the range of rodenstock. Sadly the rodenstock brochure on these lenses is very poor. Enlarging lenses tend to be excellent out to and including the corners.
Rodenstock enlarger lens vs canon 100mm macro vs canon 285mm. This enlarging lens is being used with a helicoid to focus the lens from close range all the way to infinity. I expect the image quality will be better than the 50mm f4. I did the test in 1977 or so, and it was not really close. Apograndagon 55 mm f4,5 for technical data see table 1. Lenses for digital photography rodenstock photo optics. They stayed in the photography departments and in the workshops of those who wanted to work in the old way. When i did a test print at 16x20 magnification from a 4x5 neg i was surprised. Hy, i am 28 and i am need to buy new glasses that i havent replaced for 8 years. I use these lenses for my macro work in front of a bellow or even longer constructions.
The company was founded on 18 january 19 by joseph schneider as optische. Dont forget that the original taker lenses form rodenstock were. Schneider darkroom photo enlarging lenses for sale ebay. There are many interesting and unusual enlarging lenses. Due to the fluctuation in currencies please email email protected for the current and best prices available. How does an enlarger lens like the rodenstock rodagon 105mm f5. Rodenstock and schneider apo enlarging lenses pretty much top the list, but are expensive. Photography enlarging lenses 80 mm darkroom enlarging lens. Enlarging lenses are designed for high resolution and for flatfield focus, and this is a major advantage on using it for macro and micro photography. Will be interesting to compare this one with the elnikkor 50mm. It helps you make a preselection so you are optimally prepared for your visit to the rodenstock optician. Schneider optische werke gmbh, which is sometimes also simply referred to as schneider.
The 50 mm mount is fairly easy to adapt to a bellows although it does take a couple different rings. So, well focus on two schneider kreuznach enlarger lenses in this video. Rodenstocks model, called rodagong, is probably the most expensive. The aporodagonn is therefore the amateurs and professionals choice whenever the very highest reproduction quality is required. The digital world has rendered the enlarger lenses unnecessary. Enlarging lenses reverse adapter 30mm to m39 ltm, m42 or t2 mount for componar s. Rodenstock, rodagon 35mm, 50mm, 75mm, 80mm, 105mm, schneider. May 16, 2006 id be interested in seeing how cheaper lenses such as meopta compare with the likes of rodenstock, schneider, nikkor etc. All three make lenses in several different price ranges. Jan 23, 2017 rodenstock enlarger lens vs canon 100mm macro vs canon 285mm. Kg 31 lenses for analog professional photography apomacrosironar in the near area, at scales of around 1. Hi, i want to start out in large format photography in 6x9 format using a roll film back. The schneider componon 428 lens was shot wideopen and stacked on a schneider componon 5. Today there are very few companies producing enlarger lenses.
At present, i have about 60 lenses that can be used for macro and highmagnification imaging. Rodenstock hasnt done anything that i know of with or to its line of lf lenses for at a least a decade. The image production laboratory system is based on the use of up to 5 chemical trays and professional germanmade enlarger kaiser 6005 fited with the finest high level professional germanmade enlarging lenses available including schneider kreuznach apo componon 50mm f2. The enlarger lenses of both companies were competing. Ok, so ive been wanting a decent macro lens for a while now and the prospect of shelling out 300 for a modern af 100mm macro with 1. Rodenstock enlarger lens vs canon 100mm macro vs canon. Was looking for a macro but this lens was not expensive so decided to purchase and give it a whirl.
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