Photographic Enlargers: 75mm Lens

Video Transcript

"The lens I am holding in my hand is a seventy-five millimeter lens. This is a great lens for a couple of different things. One, if I am printing medium format film; two and a quarter, six seven. This is the lens I pretty much, this is going to be my go to lens that I need to use. But also, this lens can come in handy if I am making, let us say, a four by six print from a thirty-five millimeter. If I want to print something kind of small that the fifty millimeter will not really be able to do properly. So, seventy-five, sometimes they sell eighties, are really excellent lenses to use when you know, you are printing small, you are printing medium format. When you use this, you really want to look at that corner to corner sharpness on that square or on that six seven, and make sure that the coverage is coming out all the way. Few times I have seen students forget to change their condenser accordingly to what lens they are using. It is a pretty common mistake at first. So, you always want to make sure you are doing the right thing."