Response to Help with buying enlarger lens

My stock advice is to stick with 50mm, but for your smaller prints, 80mm makes sense. Not only will the enlarger height be more convienent, but the longer lens is probably optimized for lower magnification. At that print size, I don't think you'll see much difference between good lenses, so the older Schneider might be fine. Personally, I'd avoid the perils of eBay and just buy a new lens from B&H. I don't know the price, but you might also look at the 63mm EL- Nikkor. I assume from your print sizes that you typically print full frame. I just started cutting 11x14 paper down to 7x10 plus a small test strip, and that seems to be a nice print format.

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