Abstract: A variable scale duplicator lens system, including: front and rear lens group each consisting of three lenses and located on the opposite sides of a stop, the front group on the side of the subject and the rear group on the image-forming side; the front group on the subject side including a 1st lens consisting of a meniscus lens of positive power facing the convex side thereof toward the subject, a 2nd lens consisting of a meniscus lens having negative power facing the convex side thereof toward the subject, and a 3rd lens of positive power; the rear lens group including 4th to 6th lenses arranged symmetrically with the 1st to 3rd lenses of the front lens group, respectively. Of these six lens members, at least one of the 1st and 6th lenses is movable.