Good enlarger with an excellent lens is the best combination. For a very reasonable cost, I have upgraded several steps from the original equipment. Sharper images reveal textures not seen before, strong print from corner to corner.

Two days ago, I compared this lens with six others in my collection, including two premium German lenses. By far, this lens produced better resolution across the entire field of 10X enlargements than any other lens. Yes, B/W only! It is possible that the German APO would be better(?) with color.

This easel is easy to adjust, and makes absolutely amazing borderless prints. Suitable for use with 8x10 as well as 5x7 paper!

The easel sits sturdily on the baseboard and does not slip or move around on its own. If you like borderless prints, this is definitely a great purchase!

I want print 20x24 this one is best choice

perfect!

This design is ideal for holding a variety of materials that I use for making prints. In addition to traditional photographic paper, I use it to position thicker materials, such as sensitized clayboard, wood, metal, glass, etc. Clean design, sturdy. Ideally the capture nuts for the adjustment screws would somehow be such that they do not rotate; however, it works well if you simply lift the knob as you loosen/tighten them.

I'm no optical expert and can't honestly gas on about modulation of transfer function, line pair resolution, aspherical distortion and whatnot. Nor have I compared this lens to a Rodenstock APO, Schneider, Beseler, Leitz or whomever brand lens. What I can say is this lens (to be accurate, my '80s model) covers a 35mm negative well and focuses the grain tightly and evenly across the enlarging field without fail--unless I screw up... My prints are always superb and I've never had the lens cause trouble. If I want to duplicate a print from 15 years ago, I only have to go to my exposure notes, adjust the lens and BINGO! perfect print! One note: I only print black & white. If you are doing color, you might need to consider the more $$ APO lenses. All the same, no reason why you shouldn't expect Rodenstock to deliver!

I have had this lens for a short period of time mounted on a Linhof Super Technika V with a Leaf Aptus II 5 digital back. When properly adjusted on a Technika with the right cam, you can focus this lens exactly through the range finder on the Technika. It's image quality and colour are without peer. Outstanding. No Distortion. Complete control of depth of field. Optimum aperture at F4 - f 11. Very quite. No fringing, super sharp and colour that matches Slide film. The image quality from this lens is that good that when you look at the fashion images and the pictures in books and magazines, you say to yourself, I can do better than that. The Pros of this world should wake up to the quality these lenses produce. Forget the Leica S2 and the M9 (both I have used). This combination is large format near transparency quality on digital.

Very nicely made. Some prefer the Saunders easel, but this one is good enough for me. I lucked out and obtained a demo at a fraction of the going price. (It's painted black) It's a sturdy easel; excellent construction. This is very good to have with Omega E and D5 enlargers. Printing on the baseboard is problematic. Just the ticket for printing 6x12 and 6x17 negatives, where 24 length makes a respectable print.