Rodenstock Eurygon 80 mm f/4 -- any opinions?

[warrennn]

I local seller is offering a complete darkroom for a good price. It includes a Rodenstock Eurygon 80 mm f/4 enlarging lens. It is very hard to find any information on this lens, such as the number of elements and its quality. I would be using it for 6x6 B&W printing. Can somebody help?

Thanks very much.

Warren Nagourney

[Rick A]

According to Rodenstock, its a 7 element design. I've never seen or used one, but it should perform well enough to give decent enlargments, unless its dirty or has fungus.

[warrennn]

Thanks, Rick.

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[johnalex141r]

I have a 60mm Eurygon that got put on while testing lenses with medium format (645). It worked just fine there, and also use it for 8x10s from 35mm. This was not my goal with this lens; but it seems to do just fine in my informal tests. The Eurygon lenses are "wide field" lenses; 60mm instead of the standard 80mm for medium format; IIRC 40mm instead of 50mm for 35mm.

The tests done was a corner of a 35mm neg, 4 lenses, all at differing apertures. The Eurygon 60mm was fine; informal printing with 645 shows no problems in the corners.

From being a "what is this lens" to residing on my enlarger 100% of the time, was not something I had anticipated.

Hope this helps.

JohnS.

[fotch]

I think its a lens designed for close up or copy work and is a flat field lens. It should work as good as an enlarger lens.

[warrennn]

Thanks again for the info.

Actually, I probably won't buy the lens after having looked at it this afternoon. It came as part of a darkroom and included a fujimoto G70 dichro, which has gotten mixed reviews and would essentially duplicate the LPL enlarger I recently purchased.

The rest of the darkroom equipment was just so so, but the lens had an *internal* scratch, which might be separation between cemented elements and I decided I would rather not take a chance.

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