You all need the Nikkor 85mm f2...

I was looking for an LTM one for months, but eventually settled for the canon 100/3.5. Haven't ran too many rolls through it, but it certainly is tiny. Aperture ring is annoying, though.
 
I bought one yesterdat from KEH - a BGN chrome for $215. It just shipped today so I won't have it until next week. Does $215 sound like a decent price? Their EX copy is selling for over $400.
 
I don't know if anyone has noticed but I think there has been a jump in price on certain old Nikkors...the 85/1.8 K version seems to have doubled in the past year.
 
The very last of the non Ai lenses made between approx 75-78. Many were the old formulas with coatings and they are all made up in the "modern" rubber barrel fashion...they look like Ai and Ais lenses but they are non Ai. They are called K's. When they made the 85/2 it was an Ai replacement for the venerable 85/1.8 (which was THE fashion portrait lens for many many years or so I am told) so the last 85/1.8's are K versions. You could buy them for 100-200 dollars a couple years ago. They are a lot higher than that now. KEH has an Ex one for like 400 right now I think. Crazy! The 105/2.5's are still pretty flat especially the older ones. The 28/1.8 is another one that despite being still made brand new the older lenses are still bringing all the chili. The Ais is superior to the K in this FL however. Probably one of the cheapest Nikkors you can buy period is a 28/3.5 K and it is a decent lenses too. Famous Nikkor metal barrel build quality I paid 30 bucks for mine!
 
Hope to get another one soon. I had to sell my 8.5cm f2 along with a 13.5cm Nikkor following an extended bout of unemployment, along with a lot of other gear for various other cameras. I don't miss most of it, but I certainly miss the lenses for my Nikon S2, which has become my favorite film camera over the past couple of years. Thankfully, my wife and I were able to get back to work before I had to sell the camera itself and the 5cm f1.4 lens.
 
Brian Sweeney said:
The Jupiter-9, one calibrated for the Leica 51.6mm standard, is well worth having. I sold mine after getting the Nikkor 8.5cm f2 in LTM. The Nikkor lens is sharper and has more contrast, BUT the biggest difference was the smoothness of the Nikkor vs the Jupiter. It also cost 6x as much.

One of my Favorite J9 Shots.

8.5cm F2 Wide-Open
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The Jupiter isn't bad but the Nikkor blows it away, in my experience.
 
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