Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 04:39 PM 10/6/2000 +0200, Stanislaw B.A. Stawowy wrote: >(As my contribution to group, I choosed to try to describe >some of Russian lenses and provide samples & info about >them. I know that this is not a pure "Leica" subject, but >because this is a *users* group, these informations may be >of some importance. There was some info about them in early >Digests, like these from 1998, but not all. I hope I will >see Marc Small someday, writing something like a series >of articles describing Russian lenses in LTM <g>) > Ah, and I should do so, if there were 70-hour days and 15-day weeks! Which factory made this lens? Quality Control is always an issue with hand-assembled lenses and, to this day, the SPS world uses hand-assembled production methods. I love my late Jupiter-3 but I admit a few of the earlier ones I have owned have been a bit rough. The only SPS lens I have consistently seen problems with, though, is the 2/85 Jupiter-9: I would estimate that 1/3 of the production were dogs, while MOST of the other lenses are much better in terms of quality. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!