Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/02/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Mon, 26 Feb 1996, Marc James Small wrote: > This is an incredibly foolish question to ask me. > > Buy the Russian Jupiters -- 5.6/20 Russar MR-2, 6/28 Orion-15, 2.8/35 > Jupiter-12, 2/50 Jupiter-8, 1.5/50 Jupiter-3, 2/85 Jupiter-9, and 4/135 > Jupiter-11 -- for Zeiss quality at disturbingly low prices. > > Great stuff! > > Marc > msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 > Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir! I can second Marc's recommendation on the Jupiter-8, 9, 11, and 12: he sent me these last year in Contax bayonet mount along with a Kiev body. The lenses are decently constructed although they are not built to the exceptional standards of Leica lenses. However, you can buy them new rather than 40 years old; the optical quality of the lenses is very very good; and they are considerably cheaper than comparable Leitz screw-mount lenses. In other words, they are great user optics. Gary Toop gtoop@uoguelph.ca