Contax IIIa / J3 lens resolution

[darkkavenger]

Hello, I wanted to share this photo with you, it's a scan just freshly out of my scanner, without any sharpening/adjustment.

click to enlarge 😉
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Taken wednesday morning with the Contax-IIIa, Jupiter-3 with hood/uv filter, luigi's softrelease, speed was 1/100th sec, aperture below f/4. Film is fomapan 400, 7:30 in LC-29 1+19 @ 20°C.

Cheerios,
Max

P.S. : Yes, that's in Prague!

 

[xayraa33]

Nice ! I do not think the 1.5 Sonnar can do much better than that Max,
certainly not by viewing on computer monitors anyway.

 

[dexdog]

Max, it appears that you have a really good J-3. Enjoy!

 

[darkkavenger]

Thank you dexdog and xayraa33! I'm still busy scanning 😉

 

[darkkavenger]

Wide-open, f/1.5 - 1/100s, for Brian 😉