Let's see, they're both condenser enlargers, and you're printing from 35mm negatives. Provided they're both functionally working properly, I'd hold on to the one with the brighter light source. Assuming the lenses are standard M39 Leica thread, you can swap them. No experience with either lens, but my gut feeling is that the Rodenstock is probably a better lens.
-Mat On Sun, 31 Aug 2003, Lon Williamson wrote: > I'm a ColorNeg/Scanner/Photoshop kind of guy, but > my wife likes to enlarge B&W in the bathroom. > > Her first enlarger was a Bogen 22A Special condenser > with a metal Voss 50mm f3.5-16 lens with 5 aperature > blades made in Japan. > > Her brother just gave her an Omega C-700 condenser > with a (graphite?) Rodenstock El-Omegar 50mm > f3.5-16 leens with 6 blades, made in Germany. > > Any comments on which enlarger/lens she should > keep? She's not done a side-by-side comparison. > Our son gets the system leftover from this.
