J-3's have gotten expensive

zhang xk said:
I just checked the big bay, and saw quite a few listed under $50. Did I miss something?

Zhang
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If you look at both pending and completed sales there is one guy selling LTM lenses with "cleaning marks" $50 and a few (very few) sales of excellent lenses at $100+. The rest seem to have opening bids in the $80 range that are not selling - suggesting that $100+ range is more in the seller's mind than the buyer's - as the law of gravity has not been repealed I assume prices will soon fall back to a level at which buyers are interested.

Michael
 
Bargain? i was the only bidder and got one kiev4a and a jupiter-3 for 70$ i have been thinking of to get a spare body,and this was a god deal for me the lens i have been looking for and a body.
 
After reading all the problems with Bessa R / FSU connectivity, I am wondering of the Jup 3 is such a smart idea after all.

It seems FSU all the way or scale focusing-- perhaps for Nikon / Contax as well?

When I bought my Lynx 14 Yashica, I think I made the right move for night-time photography:

-- It is a very solid camera,
-- offers mass to counter shake,
-- has an nearly noiseless leaf shutter,
-- looks like a medium format camera,
-- reccomended by cameraquest,
-- and is yet undiscovered
 
If you get them adjusted by someone who knows what they're doing, the Jupiter-3 is one of those lenses you won't take off your camera. Don't give up on this lens until the necessary adjustments of it have been made for your camera.
 
Still, if you "adjust it" then it won't work where it was meant to-- the FEDS

Feds are cool, if not cruel. The truly murderous spooks of Soviet intelligence took away from ORPHANS and a brilliant mentor the very type of thing that was meant by socialists to benefit "the people."

And what would intelligence spooky types want with a camera factory anyway?

Well obviously spys need to photograph things, and Slavic spies would want West German looking cameras for spying on the West. Plus I am certain they got cigarettya money by selling counterfits -- Nazi ones no less -- to unsuspecting tourists.

The Fed 5 gets pretty high ratings, and it would be my first choice for a Soviet digital camera conversion.

So, stop molesting your Jup 3s, and use them on a reliable late model FED.
 
ferider said:
Since about an hour I have two as well, Mark :) Got to have a spare lens with a jewel like this ...
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Brag brag. Grumble grumble. :p

I need to get mine back. I had the works: filters, hood, caps. I didn't like how badly it flared, but that shouldn't have been a reason to let go of it.
 
Sorry for the brag, Gabriel.

Hey you do have a nice Summarit, still remember your girl at the window.

Must have been something wrong with your Canon, I find them quite flare resistant.

Roland.

PS: trade your Biogon yet ? :) :p
 
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Taken either wide open or very, very close...f/2 or thereabouts.

As much as it flared, I liked it a lot. When I get another Canon body it's going to be my first lens.
 
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Hi lens and camera with evereadycase was waiting for me today lens look okay camera okay firing on all speed now i must try it with film.J3 and kiev4a for 70$ for me it looks like a good price
 
I shall soon get a silver J-3 at what must be a record price: $40 including shipping from Russia to India. Oleg K. says it shows evidence of having been wrenched off a camera body on which it had jammed. Since it's coming from him I'm confident it won't be a write-off. To be on the safe side, though, maybe I should begin to carry mounting and unmounting tools.
 
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