Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/05/17

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Subject: [Leica] 2/85 Jupiter-9
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Sun, 17 May 1998 11:07:36 -0400

At 08:00 AM 5/17/98 -0600, Steve wrote:
>which 85mm lens would you recommend? any year better than another?

The Soviet lenses were in aluminium mounts until 1974 or so, some of these
being chromed, and then were made in black finish.  Perhaps the best from a
user angle are the very early or very late black lenses, as these are
generally multi-coated and well made.

Marc

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