Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hello from St. (He is unstoppable! ) Long, long time ago in a galaxy far far away, Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net> sat at his typewriter and screamed: >Ah, and I should do so, if there were 70-hour days and 15-day weeks! Oh please! please! I want a review! Please! (I want a IIIc also! I have a birthday by 16th of October! (24! getting old... ) Is here anyone enoughly rich who wants to sponsor me? I can even wear a T-shirt with his company logo when photographing :-))) > Which factory made this lens? Ivan Pierced Eye (ouch! I have contact lenses..) - Krasnovodsk? Kharkow? >Quality Control is always an issue with >hand-assembled lenses and, to this day, the SPS world uses hand-assembled >production methods. But how nobilitating is to have a hand assembled lens performing well! None of nouveauriche with their M6TTL and TriElmar can say so! :-) > I love my late Jupiter-3 but I admit a few of the earlier ones I have owned > have been a bit rough. My exemplaire is made from hard alluminium and I was ia little disappointed at the beginning. Also no-click-stops diaphragm takes time to get used to. I tried some Jupiters before I bought this one; I think that now quality control is a lot better than then - now they have a BIG demand from us :-) > The only SPS lens I have consistently seen problems > with, though, is the 2/85 Jupiter-9 Which problems? I'm interested in details. Jupiter 9 takes a lot of time to get used to; this is a good portrait lens, but I had not really good image when not stopped to f/8 or so. But in near future I will try out some of them (new arrivals, priced at 35$ or so, also this is my friend's used cameras shop...) Now I took a uncoated "fat" Elmar 4/90 from him for a weekend, so I have a toy for while :-) > I would estimate that 1/3 of the > production were dogs, while MOST of the other lenses are much better in > terms of quality. You are right. What is interesting that there are dogs and stars and a little between. If Jupiter is good, it is a prize lens, if is bad - then it is very bad. My friend have on display in his shop a Jupiter12 which has this unusual rear element TILTED by some 20-30 degrees! Looks very funny.... St. PS I wear L size T-shirts... <g>