J-3's have gotten expensive

[outfitter]

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

Zhang

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- suggesting that $100+ range is more in the seller's mind than the buyer's - as the law of gravity has not been repealed I assume prices will soon fall back to a level at which buyers are interested.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

 

[Mikael.N]

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.

 

[jamiewakeham]

DVD Technik have a few Exc+ for $70 plus shipping here: http://www.dvdtechcameras.com/lens/leica/lca1.htm

Just leave one for me!

Jamie

 

[john_van_v]

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

 

[Stephanie Brim]

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.

 

[john_van_v]

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.

 

[Gabriel M.A.]

Since about an hour I have two as well, Mark 🙂 Got to have a spare lens with a jewel like this ...

Brag brag. Grumble grumble. 😛

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.

 

[ferider]

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 ? 🙂 😛

 

[Stephanie Brim]

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.

 

[Mikael.N]

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

 

[payasam]

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.