[Leica] IMGs: To adapt or not...

[Frank Filippone]

IME, the Jupiter lenses were not too well received in the US.  They are 
pretty rare here.

In England they seem pretty well received.

I have had the Zeiss lens grouping when I had my Contax RF cameras.  
They were pretty wonderful.

But that was a long time ago.

Use what works, for you.


Frank Filippone
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>> On 2 Dec 2023, at 00:25, Douglas Barry<imra at iol.ie>  wrote:
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>> Despite having a multitude of old lenses from various makes and at least five or six appropriate Fotodiox adapters, I have a problem with decent performance at 85mm for portraits, as well as at 35mm for street work. I had bought a new Samyang 35/2.8 a couple of years ago, but, in truth, never liked the results, so decided to get an immaculate used 35mm Zeiss Sonnar which was for sale in a camera shop in Dublin. They also had an 85mm 1.8 Sony portrait lens which disappointingly wasn't a Zeiss Batis, but I decided to have a look at it when I was in there. Then, I remembered my fairly unused Jupiter 9 Leica screw fit, and dug out my Leica adapter.
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>> Test shot of my sceptical - and very unprepared - wife of forty six years taken with my forty six year old Jupiter 9 screwmount 85/2 lens with Leica screw to M adapter and Leica M to Sony E mount Fotodiox adapter, and thence to Sony A7II . Can be seen Larger. After seeing the surprising sharpness of this combination, I have decided to use this for portraits for a while, and not bother to buy the Sony lens.
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/Jup8+Nov23.jpg.html
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>> Shot from tripod of my back garden sky about 30 mins after sunset with my new Sony Zeiss Sonnar 35/2.8 on Sony A7II. Can be seen larger. I'll use it for its primary purpose tomorrow and do some daytime street shots, if things pan out.
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/Back+garden+low+light.jpg.html
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>> Anybody else using Jupiters 39mm screw fits on Sonys?
>>
>> Douglas
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