Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/04/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I think I might get a Summarit until I can afford a Summilux. They have a wonderful look. Steve Annapolis - ------------------------------ I started off by buying a 50/1.5 Jupiter-3 off of EBay for $75. That way I figured I could have a lens to use while I saved up for something nicer. I was pleasantly surprised to see how well the Jupiter performed in practice for a lens that was designed in the 1930's and built in 1956. At the mid apertures, with HP5+ handheld, you would be hard pressed to see a difference with modern lenses. Stopped down to f16/22 everything goes quite blurry and isn't really useable unless you like pictures with an extreme depth-of-blur. Wide open it gets pretty soft and low contrast, but with a similar 'finger-paint' quality to the bokeh that the Summarit has. For people pictures it can work well if you like a retro look. I would be interested in comparing it side-by-side with the Summarit. Considering it's cheap price, for B&W work it would be hard to beat the price/performance ratio of the Jupiter-3. Tom Finnegan Seattle