50mm for kiev camera

[nikarlo]

I would like to know what lens to take to add to my two jupiter8.
Jupiter3, helios 103 or sonnars?
Which lens for the slides?
And for the BW?
Which are your experiences?
Regards and "ciao",
Carlo

 

[varjag]

No experience with Jupiter-3. Helios-103 is a nice sharp lens, although mine is prone to flare in daylight: a hood is a must. I have a shot or two taken with the Helios in my gallery.

 

[wlewisiii]

I'm not as fond of the Helios-103 as some. It's almost too sharp and, as mentioned, flares easily. I have a Sonnar 50/2 and it's nice but really there is no difference between the Sonnar and Jupiter optically.

If you have money to spare and want a very different look and feel from the Sonnar/Jupiter, look for the old Zeiss Tessar 50/3.5 or 50/2.8. Look in the gallery for examples (Honu-Hugger and Furcafe, I believe, have and use these lenses. I wish I did 🙁 )

William

 

[varjag]

It seems that the flare in H-103 is laregely conditioned by poor darkening of the aperture blades and the innards of the lens barrel. Now that I've got this nice (and *thin*) black paint perhaps am gonna try doing a better job.

As for it being too sharp, I've yet to see a lens too sharp wide open, and I using wider apertures a lot.

 

[supermarcel23]

I tried different combo with my Kiev and here are my conclusions :
I got excellents results with slides with both Jupiter 8 and Helios, with extreme sharpness on the two lenses, but I must say that I always use a Coated Zeiss UV filter and a hood.
The helios is much more prone to flare but my aperture blades are silver-colored !
Same thing for color prints.
Never tried my J-3s with color films. 1964 sample is good but flares, bad internal paint. 1952 sample is my preferate, it is perfect, that's all ! I wish I can have one day a real F/1.5 Sonnar to compare !😉