Recent content by David Roberts

Ladies and gentlemen, It turned up today, in its branded box, branded lens bag, with an original Russian (swapped for my Hoya G/Y in the photo) yellow filter, and it is MINT. Focuses at infinity, and as far as I can tell 1m. Glass is clear as day...can't see any oil on any one of the 18...

Best response I've had so far is from an engineer called Brian on another forum. "The focus mount is from 1955 through 1960 or so: the earlier tabbed J-8 mounts did not use the three screws for the rear. The 1952 SN: most likely Zeiss Glass, Zeiss barrel, finished in Russia. I have some...

I've already got a standard black 70s one and I love the little thing to bits. I only bought it because it was so strange....just got to wait the standard month for delivery from its home in the eastern block. They claim it's been fully CLA'd as well....I'll post when I get it.

Newbie so go easy folks. Just picked up an early chrome Jupiter 8 on Ebay for 60 quid, and it has 18 blades rather than the usual 9?! Can't find anything on the Internet about it. Opinions? Ideas? Anyone ever seen anything like it? How do you think the images will differ...