Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/05/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Let's put it this way - it's light enough that it won't change the balance of the camera. Weighs quite a bit less than the 50 Summicron. Catch is that you need to be careful not to bang it up. It's almost entirely alumn(i)um. Cheers - ------------ Dante Stella On Fri, 11 May 2001, Peter A. Klein wrote: > How much does the Jupiter-9 weigh? I'm curious how much it weighs in > comparison to Blunt Instrument--my 85/1.9 Canon. Blunt Instrument is > solid brass and chrome, so it only comes out for special occasions like > the theater, a dinner or pub, or when I might need to defend myself. No > way I was going to schlepp that thing all over Italy. > > Thankfully, my 90/4 Elmar did yeoman service, including some nice > wide-open "portrait" shots of statues in the dimly-lit Vatican museum. > > --Peter >