From: Jack Fulton (jefulton1@home.com)
Date: 03/12/01-09:18:11 AM Z
When I first started making photographs, I was very poor but clever and used
my camera lens as the enlarger lens. I created a stiff cardboard cut out and
'implanted' my camera lens there.
Don't quote me on this, but a 'good' enlarger lens is almost a symmetrical
one whereas the idea of a camera lens is different. The camera lens is
designed to bring a 3 dimensional world to a 2 dimensional flat plane. The
enlarger lens brings 2 dimensional flat plane to another 2 dimensional flat
plane. Due to this, similarities to a process lens will be found in an
enlarging lens.
However, most of the lenses made are pretty darned good and in making small
enlargements, one may well not even notice the difference.
Jack Fulton
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