Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/05/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>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 I haven't weighed the lens, but like Dante says, it is lighter than the current 50 Summicron and balances beautifully on a LTM body. I've found this lens to be a bit of a challenge - not only for the focal length, which is not especially my forté (as we [incorrectly] say in English) - but for correct focus when shooting at f/2. I generally shoot in low light, and tend to use my lenses wide open. I find that when shooting with the Jupiter 9 at f/2, I must be moving the camera slightly when I move my eye from the RF winder to the external VF because, on a series of recent portraits, the plane of focus was not on the eyes - which is what I had focused on - but on the backdrop just behind the subejct's (in this case, a small child) head. Gotta keep working at it. Guy