Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/04/04

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Subject: [Leica] Russian Jupiter-9 85/2 lens question--for Didier
From: msmall at infionline.net (Marc James Small)
Date: Tue Apr 4 08:11:04 2006
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At 09:34 AM 4/4/06 +0200, Daniel Ridings wrote:
>As far as I know only the modern lenses begin with 00. Didier's
>description is correct.
>
>Daniel

Daniel

The usage of serial numbers beginning with "0"is pretty well standard on
lenses actually made at Krasnagorsk, though lenses made at satellite
facilities following the year-of-production custom.  For instance, my KMZ
2/50 Jupiter-8 (LTM) is 0239406.  From internal evidence, it is pretty
certain that this lenses dates from the early 1980's.

Very early ZK/BK production and early Jupiter lenses from KMZ did start
their serial numbers with the year of production.  I suspect the changeover
occurred in the later 1950's.

Marc

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