Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/04/04

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Subject: [Leica] Russian Jupiter-9 85/2 lens question--for Didier
From: dlridings at gmail.com (Daniel Ridings)
Date: Tue Apr 4 00:34:03 2006
References: <6.2.5.6.2.20060403103121.02c4a028@screengang.com> <20060403091222.7598.qmail@web32805.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <6.2.5.6.2.20060403111524.02ae8ec0@screengang.com> <3.0.2.32.20060403115644.026e95d4@pop.infionline.net>
 
As far as I know only the modern lenses begin with 00. Didier's
description is correct.

Daniel


On 4/3/06, Marc James Small <msmall@infionline.net> wrote:
> At 11:21 AM 4/3/06 +0200, Didier Ludwig wrote:
> >The russian lens I am lusting most is the Helios 40-2 (85/1.5 in M42 SLR
> mount), if I came across one, this could be a reason to reactivate my Ricoh
> Singlex.
> >
> >I forgot to mention, the first two digits of the serial # represent the
> year of production of all older russian lenses.
>
>
> Many lenses made by KMZ do not follow this practice;  their s/n generally
> begin with 00.
>
> Marc
>
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In reply to: Message from rangefinder at screengang.com (Didier Ludwig) ([Leica] Russian Jupiter-9 85/2 lens question)
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Message from rangefinder at screengang.com (Didier Ludwig) ([Leica] Russian Jupiter-9 85/2 lens question--for Didier)
Message from msmall at infionline.net (Marc James Small) ([Leica] Russian Jupiter-9 85/2 lens question--for Didier)