Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/10/25

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Subject: [Leica] Jupiter 8 Lens on LTM body
From: dlridings at gmail.com (Daniel Ridings)
Date: Tue Oct 25 07:36:46 2005
References: <9de10d6d0510250702n64e7ad15sc009f4c32650e20e@mail.gmail.com>

Ed, I've used one quite a lot on my IIIf. In fact, I prefer it to the
old Elmar. Now the particular old Elmar I have is very old (nickel,
uncoated), so that doesn't go for all Elmars.

I have a lot of Jupiter stuff at:

http://gallery.leica-users.org/By-Jupiter

And one of my recent PAW's was with one (albeit on a Kiev):

http://www.dlridings.com/paw2005/37.html

Like Marc says, it's a hit and miss thing. But in my experience you
get more hits with the Jupiter-8's than misses, compared to some of
the other lenses (Jupiter-9 (the 85mm) for example).

Daniel

On 10/25/05, Ed <edwin76@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Has anyone used these Jupiter 8 Russian lenses on their leica's before? 
> They
> are 50mm/2 heard a lot of good things about them and they are dirt cheap
> atm. I've also heard some stories that say that they have radioactive
> compounds in their makeup, any idea if there's any truth to this?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Ed
>
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