Post by Jan PartchDoes anyone know the difference between the Color Magnolar II and the
(presumably older) Color Magnolar by Agfa (to be used with the enlarger Agfa
Varioscop)? Thanks. Carsten.
There were several generations of Agfa Magnolar and Color-Magnolar lenses, of several different designs. Sometimes quite major design differences underlie apparently similar lenses. For a full guide to identification and disambiguation, please see http://www.deltalenses.com. Each version is tracked in the main archive, and your query is addressed in a specific article about the history of Agfa enlarger lenses there.
Well I don;t know about the Magnoalr, but I inherited a meopta axomat
II, must be from 1971 at least, because it came with a lightmaster
automatic exposure meter, which had a siemens capacitor from 1971!!
It came with a meopta meopar 50 f 4.5 lens for which I found very little
information in the internet. I found only that it's a 5 element lens. It
is very scratched and sofar the only thing in the "packet" that was in
bad condition (apart a tray with a hole). I recently purchased through
second hand darkroom a meopta axomat 5 colour and with this a pristine
used fujimoto 6 element lens. wondering if this lens would fit over the
old enlarger so I could upgrade it i I put them side to side and for
good measure measured their threads with a caliper. The old one was M23
(or M 24 I'm not totally sure) and the new one was, of course M 39!!!
The old one must come from an age before the M39 became the standard for
enlarger lenses!! So I must stay with the old Meopar.
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