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I have used about 30 years ago a Jupiter 8 with a Kiev4 camera. It was
absolutely sharp as a razor, with a good contrast. It was an old camera at that time, belonged to a my friend's father. When I started to earn my first pocket money, I bought my first reflex (PETRI TTL screw mount 42x1) but picures weren't so beautiful as Jupiter was used to produce. After a few years a big surprise: my girfriend gifted me for my birthday a "new!" ZORKI 4K (it was 1977) with the Jupiter8. I started to test it shooting some pictures, but it was a deep delusion: nothing to share with the legend that I used with the Kiev. Now I have just bought an old Kiev from Bielorussia on EBay but I haven't tested yet the lenses, and I don't know if I already have in my hands the Jupiter8 I have been looking for a long time. Carlo G |
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I have used about 30 years ago a Jupiter 8 with a Kiev4 camera. It was
absolutely sharp as a razor, with a good contrast. It was an old camera at that time, belonged to a my friend's father. When I started to earn my first pocket money, I bought my first reflex (PETRI TTL screw mount 42x1) but picures weren't so beautiful as Jupiter was used to produce. After a few years a big surprise: my girfriend gifted me for my birthday a "new!" ZORKI 4K (it was 1977) with the Jupiter8. I started to test it shooting some pictures, but it was a deep delusion: nothing to share with the legend that I used with the Kiev. Now I have just bought an old Kiev from Bielorussia on EBay but I haven't tested yet the lenses, and I don't know if I already have in my hands the Jupiter8 I have been looking for a long time. Carlo G |
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Russian Surprise!
I gotta share this! The other day I decided to test some of the
Jupiter and Industar lenses I have on my various FEDs and Zorkies and compare them against the Pentax lenses that I have and know are razor sharp. Boy did I get a surprise. I put the Zorkie-4K on a tripod and shot this silver building so I could see center and edge sharpness and then shot the exact same with with an Industar-26m, Industar-61 L/D and an F:2 JUpiter-8. I then rolled the film back and reloaded it into my P-30t passing over the exposed area and shot the building with 2 Pentax lenses. I had the roll processed and enlarged to 6x8 prints and I thought the I-61L/D would be the winner but much to my surprise it was the Jupiter-8! With a 10X magnifier I could see no difference between the Pentax 50mm, the Pentax-A zoom at 50mm and the 52mm Jupiter. Next I'll compare the Jupiter to the Helios-103 on my Kievs (I have both). I was actually impressed with the KMZ lenses THOM |
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On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 12:52:34 +0100, "Carlo G" wrote:
I have used about 30 years ago a Jupiter 8 with a Kiev4 camera. It was absolutely sharp as a razor, with a good contrast. It was an old camera at that time, belonged to a my friend's father. When I started to earn my first pocket money, I bought my first reflex (PETRI TTL screw mount 42x1) but picures weren't so beautiful as Jupiter was used to produce. After a few years a big surprise: my girfriend gifted me for my birthday a "new!" ZORKI 4K (it was 1977) with the Jupiter8. I started to test it shooting some pictures, but it was a deep delusion: nothing to share with the legend that I used with the Kiev. Now I have just bought an old Kiev from Bielorussia on EBay but I haven't tested yet the lenses, and I don't know if I already have in my hands the Jupiter8 I have been looking for a long time. Carlo G funny about that. My Jupiter-8 is on a Zorki-4K and its great. I have a Kiev-4AM arriving soon (eBay) with a J-8 on it and I'll have to test it against the J-8 on my Zorki. Cheers THOM |
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