From: Bob Mazzullo (rmazzullo@si.rr.com)
Date: 03/12/01-08:20:24 PM Z
Hello Jack....
With what you said in mind, I have a question....
If we use both eyes to view dimension and depth, how can
a lens (essentially "one eye") interpret "our world" in anything
but two dimensions? Shouldn't I be able to use, say for instance,
a typical 35 mm "normal" camera lens (i.e. 50 mm, give or take),
and use it as an enlarger lens, and still get the "flat plane" type of
performance as you would from a specifically designed enlarger lens?
Especially if I stopped the lens down, and did not use it at full, or near
full apertures?
Just a thought.
Thanks for your comments, and time.
Bob Mazzullo
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jack Fulton [mailto:jefulton1@home.com]
> Sent: Monday, March 12, 2001 10:18 AM
> To: alt-photo-process-l@skyway.usask.ca
> Subject: Camera lens as enlarger lens
>
>
> 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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