Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/11/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 03:12 PM 11/18/97 GMT, Simon Ogilvie wrote: > >I've got one of these 50mm Jupiter 8 lenses, black barrel, >multicoated optics, screw mount, in good condition. It came >with a Zorki-4 which I also have. Are these worth anything to >anybody? Now that I have an M6 with a 50 Summicron I can't >see myself using these any more, so to save space they'll >have to go. > >I've also got an old (1958 I think) 90mm Elmar - did I remember >correctly someone recently saying that the 3-element version >of this is becoming rare? I think mine may be 3 element - it stops >down to f22 which I seem to recall Marc saying was a critereon. >It's a chrome LTM lens which I use on an M adaptor, but if anyone >wants to swap this rare item for one of the common 75 Summilux >or 90 Elmarit/Summicrons I'd be only too happy to oblige! ;-) The Jupiter-8's normally start at around $100 and go up, depending on condition and age. Yours is post-'73; if it is '87 or later (the black paint) it is worth a bit more, as are the earlier chrome ones. As to the 4/90, a '58 lens is hardly "old" (ha-rumph! I'm older than that!), but is some years too early to be a three-element lens. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!