Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/04/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Marc, It's great to hear your enthusiasm for the Jupiter 12. I wanted to try a 35mm LTM on my Leica IIIf RD and decided that the J-12 was a good entry-level lens to try. I bought a 1987 black J-12 from Yuri at Fedka, and it has turned out to be a very good lens. One of my favorite subjects is airplanes, and the 35mm perspective is much more useful than a 50mm for that purpose. The links below show the camera setup and a recent photo using the gear. http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/J-12withCVFinder.JPG.html http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Nanchang+015.jpg.html Jim Nichols Tullahoma, TN USA ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marc James Small" <marcsmall@comcast.net> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org> Sent: Friday, April 13, 2007 6:29 PM Subject: RE: [Leica] Any opinions on the best 35mm LTM? > At 07:08 PM 4/13/2007, Jeffery Smith wrote: > >I do have a 35/2.8 LTM Summaron, but I hate to take it out into rough > >areas > >of town (that would be everywhere within a 60 mile radius of my house). > >It > >is a wonderful lens. Oddly, Puts seems lukewarm on it. I've gotta stop > >reading reviews and just look at people's images taken with different > >lenses. > > Good heavens! Jeffery, if you're going to take the lens into Areas of > Threat, then spend $50 and get a 2.8/35 Jupiter-12. It is a bit slow but > was the standard against which Canon and Nikon fought to equal until > Bertele trumped them with his Postwar design. > > The Nikon lenses have been out of production since 1960, though NOS > remained available until 1977. The Canon lenses left production around > 1970 though NOS lenses remained for sale into the early 1980's. The > Soviet Jupiter-12 was in production from 1951 until at least after the > fall of the Soviet Union and was made in quantities much greater than the > combined Nikon and Canon runs. The lens is optically superb (it is at > least the equal of the faster Nikon and Canon lenses, if not their > superior) while being most inexpensive. > > For that matter, given your venturing outside the Louisiana Green Zone, > why not pick up a Zorki 4 or FED 5B to reduce your risk to a total of $85 > or so, if that? > > Marc > > > msmall@aya.yale.edu > Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir! > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >