What Jannes meant was that a badly made or designed spring used in that Helios-badged lens made it bad. Jannes wasn't blaming the presence of the spring or...
Exactly my point. I love M42 lenses, and all M42 auto lenses have springs, that is no problem if the design works... This design does not work and causes...
Hi Kelvin I have now two M42 adaptors for the S2. One is an unbadged Japanese (it goes by a Japanese sounding name here, but the same has been seen on eBay...
Hi newbie, here. I've been reading a lot about the M42 cameras and lens for a few months. From what I've read, the Russian lenses were built from pre World...
Most of the Soviet Optical/Camera factories were under the military. These factories put out a lot of goods for military work. While it is true that many of...
Gidday Jim, You have to look at the cameras in context though. Kodak was feeding the rest of the world with plastic crap cameras. How many of the millions of...
Well Jim, you did not read very well... First of all, the lens this message is about is not a russian lens. It is built in Japan, and in a very bad way ( see...
Steady on, Jannes, old boy. I agree that Jim's prejudices against Russian lenses didn't appear to be backed up by any experiences of actually using them, and...
does anyone know if the Jupiter-9, 85/2 in chrome (white) was ever made in M42 ? I specifically do not refer to the chrome 85/2 made in ZM39 with adapters....
... In chrome there is one, I have one here. An excellent lense for theatre photography, I even used it last saturday for sports photography. Mine has #...
Jannes, I agree with you one hundered percent. I'm also getting very tired of the myth that the Russians can't produce good lenses and that they either bought...
To hate or love all Russian lenses is far too broad a statement! However I will note my experiences with them: 1) 58mm f2.0 Helios in M42 -- I agree with most...
... I've not had to use any Soviet gear in 35mm but use Kiev Medium Format equipment regularly. From this experience I believe that the designs weren't the...
Is it very soft at wide open aperture? ... In chrome there is one, I have one here. An excellent lense for theatre photography, I even used it last saturday...
Frankie Lee
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Mar 3, 2004 4:09 am
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Jannes, You saw that I called myself a "newbie". Since you are well informed, you must know what that means. Since I'm here to learn, not argue, I took your...
Jim You should probably get one of these lenses before you finally decide to "pass". They don't cost much. And after trying them, you then might regard the...
... I didn't use it wide-open yet, mostly on aperture 4, since that correlates fine with my flash. I have some photo's taken with this Jupiter-9 on ...
maybe the do exist after all .... the one I have now BIN'd is #6800012 Parlin (are you on the list?) told me he saw one #56xxxxx recently also chrome in M42,...
Frankie I think those shots by IVO answered your question quite nicely....The Jupiter 9 is terribly soft! I think I will take that one off my wishlist, after...
... Interesting. I must be more careful with it. It cost me only 24 Euro's at Ebay. But I won't be using it very often, although I'm used to heavy items, this ...
... For me they look excellent, I like this effect. Lot's of people who were at that venue are enthousiastic about the pictures, so it must be a question of ...
Hi Kelvin, I know of at least 9 to 12 variations of the Jupiter-9 Ltm-39, chrome and black M42, chrome and black two different chrome versions, one almost...
See http://img31.photobucket.com/albums/v93/zorkikat/m42%20on%20S2/ for some photos shot through M42 lenses on an S2. An M42 to Nikon mount optical adaptor...
Stewart, I did not mean americans in general with this reply. Snobs live all around the world. You're very right, and if I had anything against americans, I...
About that later version of the Horizon, have a look at: http://www.zenitcamera.com/archive/history/princelle-about-kmz-horizons-eng.html Jannes ... From:...
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